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Specter sees fiscal woes bigger than political risk
The Times Tribune (Scranton PA) ^ | 2/10/09 | BORYS KRAWCZENIUK

Posted on 02/10/2009 3:09:25 AM PST by Born Conservative

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To: tobyhill

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx?RelNum=5409


21 posted on 02/10/2009 3:47:48 AM PST by Born Conservative (Bohicaville: http://bohicaville.wordpress.com/)
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To: Born Conservative
....(voted for cloture) ... because I think there’s a need for labor law reform,

He thinks we need to reform labor laws! He considers voting for the union card bill, killing the secret ballot! He votes for the porkulous bill!

He doesn't even qualify for the term RINO!

22 posted on 02/10/2009 3:49:33 AM PST by REPANDPROUDOFIT
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To: Born Conservative

As long as the 6.5b for his pet project (NIH) is in there, he’ll vote for it.


23 posted on 02/10/2009 3:50:26 AM PST by black_diamond
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To: Born Conservative
Hey arlen... America was fired on November 4th, 2008... but you will join us on the unemployment line soon... you rino POS!

LLS

24 posted on 02/10/2009 4:33:26 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: Born Conservative

So what happens after we pass this boondoggle and we still end up like 1929 ,only now we owe an additional trillion dollars?


25 posted on 02/10/2009 4:39:15 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Born Conservative
Did someone say Specter?

James Bond: SPECTRE?
Dr. No: SPECTRE. Special Executive for Counter Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion. The four great cornerstones of power headed by the greatest brains in the world.
James Bond: Correction. Criminal brains!
Dr. No: The successful criminal brain is always superior. It has to be!

26 posted on 02/10/2009 4:44:35 AM PST by mc5cents (Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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To: Owl_Eagle; brityank; Physicist; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; GOPJ; abner; baseballmom; Mo1; Ciexyz; ...

ping


27 posted on 02/10/2009 5:31:40 AM PST by Tribune7 (Obama wants to put the same crowd that ran Fannie Mae in charge of health care)
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To: Owl_Eagle; brityank; Physicist; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; GOPJ; abner; baseballmom; Mo1; Ciexyz; ...

ping


28 posted on 02/10/2009 5:31:45 AM PST by Tribune7 (Obama wants to put the same crowd that ran Fannie Mae in charge of health care)
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To: Tribune7
I heard him live on Hannity yesterday.He said everybody left the room and other’s could have stayed to help work out the compromise.What's up with that?
29 posted on 02/10/2009 5:52:37 AM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Born Conservative

Hannity tore him up yesterday aftertoon, made Spector sound ridiculous.


30 posted on 02/10/2009 6:28:02 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: fatima

I think all Senators should be required, at their own expense, to submit to yearly MRI’s to rule out degenerative brain disease or tumors etc. Because some of the folks surely aren’t thinking clearly to vote how they do.


31 posted on 02/10/2009 8:00:55 AM PST by Josa
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To: Born Conservative; Tribune7
Specter and I have one thing in common - and I suspect in common with most people in PA - neither he nor I have ever had P&L responsibility in any of the jobs we've held.

P&L is the base line of any business; when the Loss side of that equation exceeds the Profit side, and you don't have any savings or other readily available funding to cover the difference your business dies. I was in the hardware side of the computer industry for 30+ years, and have seen many companies start up and fail. The overall health of the industry was good, and grew well. Over-reaching the technology is a given, and most times succeeds, but it takes skill and luck to maintain the growth.

Yet we are all cognizant of the requirements necessary to establish a P&L, we all have our own income and expenses that we must balance out. This mis-begotten Bill will put the US in hock to every 'venture capitalist' in the world, and the payments are due immediately. The Dollar will fall, the Tax Income will fall, the Expenses will rise, and the State Mandates will increase.

Goodbye America, it's been one hell of a ride!

32 posted on 02/10/2009 8:07:48 AM PST by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: Josa

Well if they pass this bill a few of them will be on the low end of the totem pole for health care.


33 posted on 02/10/2009 8:09:08 AM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: SkyPilot
Everything you said is absolutely true. More than once, when Specter was a guest on Local talk radio, he couldn't stay as he was in a hurry, he told the audience, to run off to "play squash." How remarkable he openly stated such an excuse, totally oblivious to the distinct possibility his constituents might be angered by such an admission. That Squash is more important than his duty as representative to the people of Pennsylvania in the United States Senate, sums up Specter's attitude toward his political responsibilities, rather well.

As for Smerconish, who rose to prominence on the backs of conservative, don't forget his junket to Cuba at taxpayers' expense, with Specter. Upon his return, Smerconish bragged to his then, largely conservative audience, about having dinner and an after dinner cigar with Castro. NO Conservative would make either of those mistakes. We'd spit on Castro and return to brag about that.

Michael also supported Michael Schiavo and is pro-abortion.

In every sound bite commercial promoting his radio program, "Smerc" talks about himself. On today's commercial sound bite, Michael informed his audience he is going to make a daily list of all the foods he eats (whoopee!). Such exciting, stimulating and thought provoking "talk." Be sure to tune in. /sarc

It's all about Michael Smerconish. It's nauseating just hearing his smug, so enormously pleased with himself self, for 15 seconds in the commercial. He probably thinks he regurgitates and eliminates his own waste better than everyone else. With bated breath, I longlingly anticipate his discussion of that. : )

34 posted on 02/10/2009 11:30:46 AM PST by TAdams8591 (When Obama FAILS, America SUCCEEDS!)
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To: brityank
Brityank, we have got to find a way to get this guy out in four years and reverse all the legislation they've passed.

Either that or there will be another revolution in the style of 1776.

35 posted on 02/10/2009 11:35:11 AM PST by TAdams8591 (When Obama FAILS, America SUCCEEDS!)
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To: Badeye
It was a really good inteview. Hannity did extremely well. Specter never sounded so stupid.

All three, Collins, Snowe and Specter, should be run out of the party and the United States by people with torches and pitch forks, to some secluded island in the middle of the ocean, where NO ONE has to lay eyes on them again.

36 posted on 02/10/2009 11:41:05 AM PST by TAdams8591 (When Obama FAILS, America SUCCEEDS.)
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To: TAdams8591

‘It was a really good inteview. Hannity did extremely well. Specter never sounded so stupid. ‘

Yep. Hannity pounded him into dust, he (Spector) almost wimpered at the end of it.

Apparently Laura Ingraham took him apart as well, and it even got more heated, but I didn’t hear it myself.


37 posted on 02/10/2009 11:42:28 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: DB
"The guy that always gets the big issues wrong..."

No he doesn't. As President Bush told us, when he campaigned for Spector over Toomey, "He's with us when it counts." /sarc

38 posted on 02/10/2009 11:44:14 AM PST by TAdams8591 (When Obama FAILS, America SUCCEEDS.)
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To: Badeye

I didn’t hear that one either. We no longer get Ingraham on our local stations. It wouldn’t surprise me. Laura is a fiesty one. : )


39 posted on 02/10/2009 11:46:41 AM PST by TAdams8591 (When Obama FAILS, America SUCCEEDS.)
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To: TAdams8591

Ingrahm ill advisedly took a gig on Fox News to fill the troublesome 5 - 6 PM slot weekdays. It imploded in less than two weeks. To do it, she cancelled her radio program.

Now she’s trying to get back to where she was. From what I can tell, stations just put Glenn Beck into her time slots, and they did here in Cincy region on 55krc.

I’d rather listen to Ingraham than Beck, she doesn’t going on ‘whining jags’ for thirty minutes at a time.


40 posted on 02/10/2009 11:59:48 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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