Oh really? Wait until election time...
Hey Arlan 0 you Rat. Vote for the pos and find out what the people really think!!!! You are not only highly misinformed, but a dunbass as well!....red
Arlen, I hope Toomey takes you down and wipes the floor with you.
‘Senile’ comes to mind here.....
Sounds more like Tarzan...
Of course not. Katie, Keith, and Chris reflect public opinion. No worries, Senator.
He’s been given his marching orders by the Democrats : get in line or you won’t win the primary.
I guess he hasn’t checked Rasmussen, Zogby, or Gallup lately, then. All three show this health insurance reform as opposed by the public. People would prefer nothing over what’s Specter and his buddies in the Democrat Party are trying to push through!
Specter is a dishonest fool.
‘Reflecting’ public opinion, Mr. Specter?
We’re *crystalizing* - perhaps even *leading* - public opinion!
We’re making enough noise to wake up the sheeple, and they’re not liking what they see when they look at you....
He hasn’t gotten any better informed, has he?
Guess you’ll find out when you can’t even make it past the Dem primary, asshat.
He's right, but in the wrong way.
I think the general public is very, very angry about the government trying to nationalize health care like they've nationalized the biggest banks and 2/3s of the domestic auto industry. No-one wants some govt. flunky involved in making healthcare decisions for them or their family. No-one believes it will make healthcare better: more responsive or higher quality (just the opposite in fact). No-one believes it will actually reduce costs - just the opposite.
So the self-center'd traitor to his constituents is probably right. The few vocal people that take the time and make the effort to come to the town halls to voice their opposition are not representative of the tidal wave of opposition that hasn't bothered to come to a TH. Not because the two groups differ on views, just that one group is angry enough to actually come to the THs and let them have it.
Oh really Arlen? Do those recent poll numbers in your re election bid not reflect the opinion of the voters?
Arlen is whistling past the graveyard.
What a putz!
My rep said the calls and emails were running 9-1 against Obama care
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.
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