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2009-02-08 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2009-02-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Some I don't think Arlen Specter is "the best we can do".

Posted by DMFD 2009-02-08 00:12|| 2009-02-08 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey Congress: Don't just do something, stand there!

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-02-08 00:38|| 2009-02-08 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Arlen, (the expert in Scottish Law), and the two Witches of Maine are unprincipled hacks. "Hey, it's the best we can get..." is a disgrace.

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2009-02-08 00:52|| 2009-02-08 00:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Private meetings? As in "I'll vote for your pork if you vote for mine?"

Posted by gorb 2009-02-08 03:20|| 2009-02-08 03:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Thank you Senator for telling your minority leader, the rest of the Republican party, and about 80% of the American people to go phuech themselves. We know YOU know what is best for us.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-08 07:29|| 2009-02-08 07:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Toomey 2010

Posted by Frank G 2009-02-08 07:55|| 2009-02-08 07:55|| Front Page Top

#7 If it is Toomey 2010, Arlen will proudly run as a donk, as would Collins and Snowe. And win. I'm not sure I wouldn't prefer a veto proof Senate. It would put all the responsibility on the donks and free the trunks to stop appeasing the likes of the three amigettes.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-02-08 08:22|| 2009-02-08 08:22|| Front Page Top

#8 This comment, and a similar one by Collins, reeks of inside the Beltway-itis.

They are totally focused on senatorial process and are blind to the fundamental issues involved in the bill itself. The "best we could do" = "what we got the Dems to agree to".

Fire them all. Every damned one of them that votes for this obsenity.

Posted by lotp 2009-02-08 09:13|| 2009-02-08 09:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Specter gives other panjandrums a bad name...why doesn't he come right out and say, "Hey, I've been lying all along, I'm a liberal democrat"

Posted by jack salami 2009-02-08 09:48|| 2009-02-08 09:48|| Front Page Top

#10 In fairness to Specter, he hasn't been lying all along. There used to be a substantial wing of "Rockefeller Republicans" just as there were lots of KKKonservative Democrats. But both parties, instead of tolerating idological mix so that they could maintain a competitive presence in local markets, have moved to a national ideological purity that forces them to abandon certain markets.

Thus Republicans have lost Caliphornia, New York and now Pennsylvania. We are becoming a two party country made up of one party states. This is not healthy for local politics, see Illinois.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-02-08 09:56|| 2009-02-08 09:56|| Front Page Top

#11 NS, the way these RINOs act you already have a veto proof senate. The RNC must defund them if they want to run as donks let them.

Its all about the principle.

Posted by Hellfish 2009-02-08 11:28|| 2009-02-08 11:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Liberal Republican(?) Arlen Specter turns 79 this week. He has fought off 2 bouts of cancer during his current term. Just a hunch here, but maybe he won't be seeking a 6th term in 2010 ??

Posted by Tom- Pa 2009-02-08 12:01|| 2009-02-08 12:01|| Front Page Top

#13 the BEST we can do?

NO, senator Spectre, you weak willed gimp. Doing the WRONG thing is NEVER the best we cna do.

I wish he would just drop dead.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-02-08 14:11|| 2009-02-08 14:11|| Front Page Top

#14 If thats your best, it is not saying much.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-02-08 21:53|| 2009-02-08 21:53|| Front Page Top

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