Posted on 02/10/2009 6:43:48 PM PST by Salena Zito
Arlen Specter mistakenly thought that his moderate compromise on the stimulus bill would be more warmly received.
He was wrong.
And he has a whole lot of high-level statements and primary threats as a result of the vote that backs his mistake.
The chair of the Pennsylvania State Republican Party Rob Gleason expressed
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My husband got a money request from McCain AFTER the election, for the Republican party.
I got one, too, but the name used on mine was Sarah Palin.
Both promptly went in the shredder.
In the short term they should be stripped from all Senate committees of any consequence—Sphincter from the Senate Judiciary committee.
I promised Specter that I would do exactly that, and I have already set aside the money.
What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
And yet they keep re-elected the guy.
re-electing...
I will boycott ALL Pennsylvania products until Senator Sphyncter is GONE!
Specter has always depended heavily on liberal Philadelphia-area (including suburbs) Republicans for money and votes, but those who’ve looked at voting rolls purport to find that a lot of these have switched their registration to Democrat, especially in 2008. The rotten liberal Hillman Republicans in Pennsylvania may raise him the money, but he still needs the primary votes, and I doubt they can deliver enough of those. IF we can find someone good to take him on in the primary.
Funny how nobody is criticizing all those “conservative” and “fiscally responsible” Democrats in the House and Senate who are riding this pig of a bill all the way to Obama’s desk.
He voted to pull my future medical but I bet that feature of the bill won't apply to members of congress.
Of course not. They are "special people".
Congress has the same options as other federal employees ... the array of fee-for-service and HMO plans that comprise the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. The govt [IOW your taxes] pays part of the premium and the employee pays the rest.
The options range from low-premium, high-deductible policies to high-premium, Cadillac type versions. It's a good bet that most members of Congress opt for the latter.
“It’s hard to believe he’s been in office as long as he has, at least as a republican.”
These days, that doesn’t mean sh*t!!
Congress assfaces are exempt from universal health care we will be stuck with. They have their own plans that will not spare any expense for them.
“Calling” her won’t be enough...
Santorum might have other work happening. Toomey would be fine. As long as there is only ONE challenger to Spectre.
The PA GOP should demand that he resign from the party. He’s a traitor to the party and a traitor to Americans. They should get a recall petition going and recall the sorry POS!!
I agree with you that we shouldn’t let up on pressuring Specter to “do the right thing”, even though he made a serious error with his vote today. If he will fight the Democrats for more tax breaks for businesses to be in the reconciled bill, then that would be something. If he would fight them over the fact that this package is now a partisan payback to Democrat Party backers, then he could have some credibility.
But if this man goes along with the Democrats and doesn’t fight at all for a better bill, in the time left for him as well as the other two- Snowe and Collins to redeem themselves, then I will say that he and the other two are as worthless as the Democrats, as as deserving of our disdain as are the liberals.
Burn him on that health care provision...how can anyone favor rationing of health care...it smacks of the Nazis saying that there are some in society not worthy of life because they use too many the Reich’s resources.
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