Tag: "Arlen Specter"
This is What a Representative Democracy Looks Like
The American voter is very slow to anger, but when you mess them over often enough, they can get plenty riled up. Word on the left is that is some centrally-organized effort like ACORN or MoveOn has put together for the past eight years. That’s patently untrue and anyone who really wants to know what’s [...]
Specterenfreud: Turncoat Demoted to Committee Coffee Boy
I like this new word William Jacobson has coined. Specterenfreude The pleasure derived from watching Arlen Specter do unto Democrats that which Specter did unto Republicans. My guess is that the specterenfreude is going to increase exponentially now that he’s been named Junior Assistant Committee Lackey by his new party after he was promised leadership [...]
On Specter, Lieberman, Moderates, and Principle
Of all the posts I’ve read about moderates, Arlen Specter, and the Republican Party, this one by Ron Coleman is the best. He cuts right to the heart of the matter and identifies Specter for what he is: a Random Senator. He gets there by way of Joe Lieberman, who was quite literally driven out [...]
New Democrat Specter: GOP Killed Jack Kemp
Eagerly-courted Democratic Senator Arlen Specter says it’s the fault of evil research-slashing Republicans that Jack Kemp is dead today. “Well, I was sorry to disappoint many people. Frankly, I was disappointed that the Republican Party didn’t want me as their candidate,” Mr. Specter said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “But as a matter of principle, [...]
He’s Not Moderate. He’s Random. And Now He’s the Democrats’ Problem
Pity the poor Democrats. In their headlong rush to get a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, they’ve fallen into a Specter-shaped brier patch. I don’t think the Republicans are going to ransom the Democrats out of it, either. Those of us on the right side of the isle were familiar with the mercurial Specter, and [...]
Arlen Specter Changes His Nametag but Doesn’t Switch Sides
This is big news, but not even a little surprising. A source involved in the talks confirms that Senator Arlen Specter will switch to the Democratic Party, a dramatic move putting the Democrats within reach of two votes in the Senate. The move stands to put the White House’s agenda on a fast-track, and to [...]
Specter’s Weak Tea
Arlen Specter has weaseled his way to the editorial pages of the Washington Post to explain why he is working against the will of the American people and is trying to pass the Congressional Vote-Buying Act of 2009. His reasons are so weak that he might as well not have bothered. I almost feel bad [...]
“It is never a bad time for Republicans to speak economic truth…”
Stacy McCain has a column in The American Spectator that deserves wide attention tomorrow morning. Not only does he carve a gaping hole in Arlen Specter’s claim that “no one” would argue that we need his trillion-dollar vote-buying bill and in the President’s rhetoric of panic but he also gives the GOP some very good [...]
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