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Specter: Town halls shouldn't dominate process

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Posted by Fred 2009-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I respect you for following through Specter. I respect Toomey more.

"Those people" ARE America, and to discredit them through your narrow exixtance and short lived is to demean them. I AM those people you bastard.
Demean me at your peril you jerkoff.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-08-17 00:19|| 2009-08-17 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 So, in other words, "I'm gonna vote for it, I don't give a crap what any of you peasants think, deal with it, suckas!!!!"

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-08-17 07:03|| 2009-08-17 07:03|| Front Page Top

#3 re⋅pub⋅lic

noun 1. a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
2. any body of persons viewed as a commonwealth.
3. a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state.

You better listen to us, or we will put you out of a job. Fact, not fiction.

Posted by Percy Spons4194 2009-08-17 07:51|| 2009-08-17 07:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Could this become Spector's Waterloo? One can hope.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-08-17 11:17|| 2009-08-17 11:17|| Front Page Top

#5 they're not really representative of America, in my opinion

Doesn't get out much, does he?

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-08-17 12:02|| 2009-08-17 12:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Not in Pennsylvania, really.

The funny thing is, I've voted for Specter every time he was up for election during my political lifetime. I don't think he understands what he's done. He's sucking up to the Democratic activists, who apparently hate him, judging from the Netroots straw poll. He's alienated a significant fraction of his squish Republican supporters - those who were actual moderates, and not just third-way types who made a fetish of 'moderation'. The conservatives have *always* hated him, and mostly voted for him with one hand & the other holding their nostrils closed.

The rate he's going, the only people who'll vote for him are those who don't pay attention & just recognize his name as being The Guy Who You Vote For. That's what, twenty-thirty percent of the electorate?

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-08-17 13:19|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-08-17 13:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Is the demographic make-up of Congress Members really "representative of America"...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-08-17 18:38|| 2009-08-17 18:38|| Front Page Top

#8 No. However, most Americans would rather not bother with the whole mess - until it bites them in the pocketbook [like a Stamp Act] to get their focused attention. Probably be better to simply draft people from the voter rolls to get a cross section. It would quickly clear the voter rolls as well of the dead, illegal, or multiple registered.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-17 21:06|| 2009-08-17 21:06|| Front Page Top

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