A day after Majority Leader Harry Reid praised Mr. Specter, one of three Republicans who came to the rescue of the majority's need to climb over that 60-vote hurdle to pass the economic stimulus package, the new leader of the Senate Democrats' election arm took aim at the senior senator from Pennsylvania. At a news briefing a little while ago, Senator Robert Menendez, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said Mr. Specter's seat was one of the Democrats' targets for the 2010 midterm elections. Mr. Menendez cited the increased enrollment of Democrats in the state and his poll ratings in contending that Mr. Specter would face a very tough re-election tide.All politics is local -- except as conducted by the Party of Treason, the so-called Democrats.
Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined... taking him for all in all, measuring the tremendous magnitude of the work before him, considering the necessary means to ends, and surveying the end from the beginning, infinite wisdom has seldom sent any man into the world better fitted for his mission than Abraham Lincoln. -- Frederick Douglass
Great and timely quote on Lincoln on his 200th birthday.