proposals are not representative of the public's view on the issue.
Calling Nurse Ratched.
Posted on 08/16/2009 8:47:42 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Sen. Arlen Specter says critics of the Democrats' health care proposals are not representative of the public's view on the issue.
The Pennsylvania Democrat says people who are angry at town hall meetings don't reflect the broader public opinion of the proposed overhaul.
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He’ll probably say that about the primary results too.
Honestly, I think the man has dimentia. He stumbles when he speaks, cannot put two thoughts together. He’s lost it and he needs to retire. Hopefully the people of PA will put him out of his misery come Nov 2010. Until then I pray he does no more harm.
Senile is being kind. It’s a miracle when Alwrong Sphincter knows what day of the week it is.
He has diamonentia, dimentia and demontia. He’ll take diamonds and dimes from us, and then demonize us.
Exactly. And I bet this dork would be singing a different tune if the elections were tomorrow but since he has some time, he's going to play along with liberal buddies.
I don’t live in his state, but all I can say is this. I am a nobody. I have nothing except my vote and my life savings. Rather than turn my savings over to the government in taxes, I would rather spend it supporting someone who vows to represent me. I will pour my savings and use my vote on someone who will stand up and be my voice. He needs to listen to those who think like me because I am very positive that I am in the majority.
Any Republicans or Democrats who "compromise" for the sake of popularity now on this important principle involving future generations should be recalled at the next election cycle!
This is not about a frivolous question of which provisions are acceptable and which are unacceptable. This is about a power struggle between the principles the founding generation were willing to stake their "lives, property, and sacred honor" for, and those who, throughout the history of civilization have arrogated unto themselves power over other people's lives.
The current "issue" called "health care reform," or its equally obnoxious semantic twin "health insurance reform," is just the invasion of liberty by arrogant elected officials which has finally aroused citizens who, heretofore, ignored the decades-long power grab by those who were supposed to protect "We, the People's" constitutional principles.
Now, citizens are seeing that it is a matter of "principle," not an issue of semantics over wording.
They should not allow their elected representatives to be coopted by "blue dogs" or any other "wolf in sheep's clothing" that would allow what may turn out to be the most important watershed moment in the history of American liberty to be further threatened. Now, Conrad and Sebelius, and others, sensing the voter mood are throwing out "compromise" talk this weekend, all to punt for better position down the road. Seize the moment for the sake of posterity and just say, "no"!
A word from the author of our Declaration of Independence regarding citizens and oppressive government might give some backbone to today's citizens:
"The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate . . . the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that they may. . . know ambition under all its shapes, and . . . exert their natural power to defeat its purposes." - Thomas Jefferson
And, for more wisdom from the same source:
" . . . this is a tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers. . . have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follws that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."- Thomas Jefferson
He’ll win in either a lanadslide or a squeeker depending how much money ACORN pours into Penn; he knows this and doesn’t care what the polls say or how many people plan to vote against him. If there is a next election...
Man..I want some of the drugs these guys take.
This weasel does not get out of the house very much. Specter is out of touch with his voters. I guess that he is too busy in the counting house counting his money.
Specter: senile but still as arrogant as ever.
Now in August, Toomey leads Specter 48% to 36%. That is a colossal failing by the new Democrat which effectively renders him incapable of holding office. No incumbent ever comes back from that far down. See the latest numbers. Just three weeks ago, Quinnipiac had this race a statistical dead heat at Specter 45% Toomey 44%.
sure Arlen.
Yeah, just because between 52 and 57%(depending on the poll)are against any type of government involvement in health care doesn’t mean the public is against it!/SAR These people are not to be believed. They are incredible in the effort to simply roll over Americans. I think they are trying to start a civil uprising.
This guy has shown over numerous decades he's playing with less than a full deck. Why should any of us be concerned with an old guy's aimless ramblings, let alone impressed with them?
There are bigger fish to fry out there.
CA....
Calling Nurse Ratched.
Sadly, we won’t get a shot at Arlen when he loses the Dem primary. Hey, isn’t PA an open primary state? I’d switch just to vote against him.
He’s knows he is a gonner and he knows it was conservatives who brought his socialist thing down. He’ll get even with a sucide bomb cause he knows he is dead anyway.
I’ll tell you what, Arlen: Push for national health care as hard as you can, and you’ll find out what the public opinion is.
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