Posted on 02/09/2009 8:07:38 AM PST by Born Conservative
We might have another chance to vote for Pat Toomey: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDgwZDEzYzllYzBiZWRjNTZlODcxNDVjM2VmNzg3ODM
I am devastated to hear, Toomey isn’t running against Specter this time. I can’t think of another PA Republican, who has a serious chance of defeating him.
It's also being very false!
As I wrote to Specter & his fellow travellers in "moderation" Snowe & Collins, there's nothing the least bit moderate about their votes for this Pork Bill. There's nothing middle of the road about saddling everybody else's kids & grandkids with crippling debt for life in this blatant scam to pay off Obama's & Pelosi's & Reid's obligations to greedy special interest groups & others who provided them campaign support. Not a single job & not a speck of wealth will be created by absurdly wasteful items such as heaters for pools in Hawaii and all three of these Senators damn well know it.
For years, these three have tried to cultivate reputations for being the rationally responsible, ideologically independent members of their party who would rather betray their party's line if it meant promoting the good of the country. Their deceitful votes for this crooked payola package will force them once & for all to forfeit the right to insult anybody else's intelligence by even thinking about claiming that whopper ever again. That charade is finito, kaput, DOA.
Indeed, these three have permanently outed themselves as standing with the most cynically self-serving, IRrational, IRresponsible & IMmoderate stewards of the "good of the country" in the Senate and their reputations even among moderates, independents & middle-of-the-roaders will be irrevocably destroyed with this vote.
And rest assured if their phony mantles of 'moderation' are not not quite shredded yet, just wait for the next few years of incessant letters to the editor repeatedly enumerating all of the indefensibly irresponsible & recklessly wasteful garbage studded in this sleazy porkapalooza bill for which they're voting. Even the leftists in their states will recoil in disgust at the craven hypocrisy they're employing while sticking it to the next generation in the most selfishly shortsighted and wantonly profligate way imaginable.
No, these three Senators' reputations as "reasonable moderates" will have at long last earned their rightful burials straight down those $30,000+ self-flushing toilets in Sumter SC which Specter, Snowe & Collins have unethically chosen to put on the credit cards of citizens who haven't even yet been born let alone those who are now too young to give them permission to do so - all in the criminally corrupt name of "stimulus".
I hope and pray they can persuade Pat Toomey to run again.
Great post leilani. ALL three are TRAITORS to their party AND their country, along with the Democrats headed by Obama.
I can't think of another Pa. Republican who is worth anything. Maybe Barletta.
If Pat's not aiming at Arlen, I hope he's aiming at the governor's office.
There is really no such thing as “moderate.” A “moderate” is a liberal who is ashamed of being called a liberal or who is afraid to come out of the closet just yet.
This has got to be the bleakest time for our country and our state, as well as for Republicans and conservatives since my initial involvement in college. Somewhere there's got to be a silver lining.
“Not to mention he voted for SCHIP. Medical care for illegals and 30-year-old “children” on the backs of taxpayers making less.”
Lol, it looks like I can sign up and be eligible for benefits along with my children! Although, this may only be for single/childless “children” 30 and under. This is so ridiculous, and there is no end in sight.
scott_hoeflich@specter.senate.gov
“Ol’ Bag O’ Haggis” is my name for him. Despicable RINO!
I wish they would strip Specter, Snowe and Collins of any GOP committees and REALLY make them RINO’s.
Well, I don't know if I quite agree with that. There are politicians in some states who represent constituencies who are in the aggregate conservative about some things & "progressive" to liberal about others. Nobody who is across-the-board conservative (or conversely across-the-board liberal) could possibly be elected in some places, and the politicians voters in those places send to DC to represent their interests reflect that. Many call them "RINOs" here, but they're just doing the jobs the people in Purple districts & purple states elected them to do.
But I think in the case of this thoroughly bogus "stimulus" bill which was clearly designed to stimulate only the bank accounts & career prospects of supporters of the current political power structure & further which accomplishes that by forcing a particular segment of the citizenry - a segment which doesn't yet even enjoy the vote to be able to sign off on it - to foot the bill for it, a vote for this particular bill has nothing to do with ideology but with basic ethics. A liberal could just as easily vote against this bill as a conservative on the simple non-ideological grounds that it's nothing more than a massive gold-plated monument to political corruption.
Someone who exploits a non-related situation (in this case, dire economic conditions) to vote for a bill in order to pay back others who help put them in office & puts the tab for that payoff into somebody else's accounts payable column without their permission is just a thief. A plain, old-fashioned two-bit thief!
As we've seen with Spector, Snowe & Collins, the fact that someone who votes for this bill may be liberal or moderate or conservative is just incidental to the fact that they're corrupt. Pull away the utterly irrelevant ideological window-dressing & you've got yourself nothing more than a dirty low-down crook.
“Moderate is a base-stealing word for liberal Republicans.” — Bill Buckley
Call his local offices if oyu can’t get DC.
Would Santorum do it?
So ironic that Santorum is one of reasons we still have to deal with Specter, and he (President Bush and others) by their support of Specter helped to bring us to this sorry situation. Now knowing the extreme consequences of his actions (which before he could only surmise), Santorum would still put his friendship with Specter ABOVE the good of his country. Amazing. Again what does Specter have on Rick Santorum?
BTW, despite my extreme anger over Santorum's support of Toomey over Specter, I voted for Santorum against Casey. Rick impresses me as the kind of person who is too arrogant to learn lessons, and trying to teach him some, it seemed to me, would hurt us, and the cause, more than it would hurt him. Besides, when I decide I want to get rid of a politician, it's because they do more harm to the country and/or conservative cause than good (and I just want them gone)...it's NEVER to teach them a lesson. Our responsibility isn't to teach lessons, but is, to the best of our ability, the protection of the best interest of our country.
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