Posted on 12/19/2009 1:54:53 PM PST by malkee
n a conference call with Pennsylvania reporters Saturday, Specter compared the passage of the health care bill to the Civil Rights Act. He said tough legislative achievements take considerable time.
"The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was necessary, although it did not go as far as people would have liked then, to get the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Again, it did not go as far as people would have liked, but we did find the Voting Rights Act of 1965. We have to find times when we have to build incrementally on these matters,'' Specter said.
~snip~ pecter said the Senate is working against an obstructionist Republican Party that continues to stick to a plan to "break" Obama by making health care reform Obama's "Waterloo.''
"It is like pulling bicuspids around here,'' said the 79-year-old, five-term senator.
Specter said calls by Moveon.org and other left-leaning organizations to vote against the current health care bill were based on the "regrettable lack of a public option.''
But Specter said voting against the bill would weaken the president and the Democratic Party. He said he is eager to move on the issue of unemployment and job creation -- an issue Specter said he would have preferred to take up before health care reform.
When he voted for the $787 billion stimulus bill in February, raising Republican ire against him and causing him to switch parties, Specter said America was facing the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. On Saturday, Specter expanded his take on the severity.
"This country faces the most problems ever since perhaps the Civil War,'' Specter said, listing Wall Street, unemployment, Iran, North Korea and other issues.
Scottish law says you are full of shit Arlen the weasel.
Believe me Sen. Sphincter, I would love that to be literally true. I have some vise grip pliers that should work just fine.
I’d like to perform dental work on all 60 of the traiterous bastards who supported this bill.
Ho, ho, $6.5b HO!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2181685/posts?page=2
“Well, of course I am,” Mr. Specter said when asked if he’s worried about the conservative backlash. “But (President) John Kennedy had it right. He said, ‘Sometimes the party asks too much.’ And this is something I think is necessary for the country. It goes beyond politics. It goes beyond the Democratic or Republican position. It’s the right thing for America.”
Mr. Specter said he would have supported the package even if Democrats had not added $6.5 billion in additional money for the National Institutes of Health to the final version of the bill.
Mr. Specter had sought the money for years, and had mentioned that he wanted the money in the bill when he met with President Barack Obama last week.
“That’s only one small part ... That’s not determinative in my mind,” he said.
The stimulus vote could create “a political problem,” he said, but “I thought the public interest was so important that I have to take whatever problems it brings me.”
Well, Arlen, that 1929 depression you were so worried about could still happen.
Senator lawyers acting like dentists however the normal and good teeth they are pulling out belong to the American people and against their will. More like torture and criminal harassment.
What’s a biscupid?
Funny he should mention Civil War. Because he and his D-pals are setting the stage for one. . .
I’d like to pull his f-ing tonsils out thru is a**
I didn’t ask about a bicuspid. I already know what that is.
I’ll be so happy when Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Democrat Arlene Spectre retires in 2011.
Good riddance, ******.
You’re gonna have to get in line behind me for that.
specter is the MOST rotten worm-infested RAT of all. Go burn in HELL you despicable vermin.
Call, email, fax (this is my favorite option), visit these five senators. Do it now - before the 8:00 est vote in the Senate.
Webb
http://webb.senate.gov
Phone: 202-224-4024
Fax: 202-228-6363
Landrieu
http://landrieu.senate.gov
Phone: (202)224-5824
Fax:(202) 224-9735
Lincoln
http://lincoln.senate.gov
(202) 224-4843
Fax (202) 228-1371
Bayh
http://bayh.senate.gov
Phone: (202) 224-5623
Fax: (202) 228-1377
Lieberman
http://lieberman.senate.gov
Phone: 202.224.4041
Fax: 202.224.9750
I think Benedict Arlen is toast.
Did I miss something? Can’t see a misspelling on my part. So it must be something else. Sorry for being thick.
I wish this old buzzard would just die.
Benedict Arlen is a POS.
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