simply put,he chose political self-preservation over his responsibility to his constituents and his country. In his mind, doing the right thing is doing whatever it takes to get re-elected. He is not to be trusted.

"The difference between Arlen Specter and doggie-do is Arlen won't stick to the bottom of your shoe."

"In his mind, doing the right thing is doing whatever it takes to get re-elected. He is not to be trusted."

"This kind of creature is exactly what the Republicans didn't need. So goodbye Arlen, we hardly knew ya. And take Olympia Snow with you."

"I will guarantee you that you will be very unhappy after the 2010 elections."

Veterans like Arlen are used to empty compliments from folks who want to feel patriotic. I'm sure he is used to these same patriots giving veterans the Max Cleland, John Murtha treatment. Heck, they even attacked John McCain when he dared run against GW Bush in 2000.

So, I'm sure he could give a crap what a bunch of "patriots" who have basically turned on their veterans in favor of politics before have to say about him now. That would include you, at home ab flexer; Jokerman; and your buddy curmudgen too. Politics is a tuff game. Arlen wants to be on the winning team; not the whining team.

Jokerman, we will gladly take Olympia Snow and any other legislator who is uncomfortable with their country being called communist, Marxist, and Socialist. You have an airtight strategy, Joker: Hemorrhage members and win big in 2010. You must be a Palin. Can't argue with your logic though.

Was Specter sent to Washington to represent the citizens of Pennsylvania or just the Republican citizens of Pennsylvania?

Of course he theoretically represents all PA Citizens but he was elected to office by voters who were primarily social and fiscal conservatives. He has bsically abandoned them. But I suspect that Pat Toomey will win the next PA Senate battle anyway.

Ah, "theoretical representation"...I think I understand where you are coming from now....sorta like saying Rep. Lynn Westmoreland theoretically represents me...

Like you, I am avidly looking forward to seeing Pat Toomey go mano-a-mano against Specter in Pennsylvania in 2010. I'd caution you against wagering either of your retirement checks on Toomey, though...you'll recall the last time there was a statewide race between an unrepentant social conservative and a fiscal moderate (Santorum vs. Casey in 2006) the social conservative Santorum got creamed by almost a 3-2 margin!

But in a very gay way, I sit in the corner and vouyeristically look on; and you always crack me up. I like your stuff, whether I agree with it or not. You ain't up to Carbonunit status, but practice, in all things but divorce, does make perfect. Have a good one bud.

Been on the beach..soaking up rays.. drinking margaritas.. I think I killed a few brain cells I needed though..

I will not lower my standards.. So UP YOURS..

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I hope you wore your hat in the sun:

Wingnut

Might keep the few surviving brain cells intact... tequila does strange things... oh look a pretty bird...

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seem to think that he is the second coming. Maybe that's why he's wearing the crown of thorns.

Obama's weapon of Choice!

Google it. Wikepedia it. Look it up on these blogs. Your fellow vasoline vendettistas are the ones who throw that around. I don't know who bla bla is or who dropped them on their head as a child, but the second coming/messiah thing is all GOP propoganda; failed propoganda at that.

My opinion is that Arlen saw the handwriting on the wall. A March poll showed that he couldn't compete with his likely Republican competition in the 2010 primary. So he did the pragmatic thing and jumped. Jumpin' Arlen Specter. This kind of creature is exactly what the Republicans didn't need. So goodbye Arlen, we hardly knew ya. And take Olympia Snow with you. Arlen will do exactly what is good for Arlen. So he's yours for keeps. Let me know how that works out for you. One thing you need to remember is that not too long ago, people were wringing their hands wondering if the Democrats were finished too. It's cyclical. I will guarantee you that you will be very unhappy after the 2010 elections.

Specter good riddance indeed, but I think it is just the beginning. The 2 from Maine are almost certain to defect and others who find more Democrats in their district thanks to the millions of new voter registrations that occurred last time just so they could vote for Obama. Those that vote again will naturally vote blindly for the Democrat - and the handouts.

If you really want to get depressed, read James Carville's new book which predicts 40 more years of Democrat rule. It is not wild-eyed liberalism, it is simply a study of shifting demographics, the most telling of which is the decline in the percentage of mature white male voters between 1980 and 2010. I forget the exact percentages but they went from a clear majority of the voting population to a distant 3rd place.

than you know.. Behind the push for National Health Care and Illegal Alien Amnesty push it is all about the votes.. The more Americans become enslaved with entitlements and the more Illegals are giving amnesty and then the right to vote.. this secures the future of the Democrat party..
The wild eyed College crowd.. that wouldn't know a political issue if it walked up slapped them out of their Birkenstocks, could not care less.. They just voted for a novelity not an issue. These guys will keep the Dems in action for awhile.. This Country is fundamentally changing and will be going through many spasms to come.. Will we come out a better Country or will we emerge a less safe.. less free.. poorer Country.. Time will tell.. I for one fear for the Constitution.. Remember we are talking about the Party that believes "IT IS A LIVING BREATHING" thus adaptable and not relevant document..

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I must disagree with your assessment on Senator Lieberman. His stance on Israel is as it should be ----faithful. And, when no other Democrat on planet could even be found, he strode to the well of the Senate and rebuked President Clinton, as he should have. And he maintained the respect of others. Even after the Democrats in Connecticut denied him the nomination to the US Senate, the voters did not-- they elected him as an independent. Yes, Joe was an annoying whiner during the Florida voting debacle but all in all he is a decent public official.

Let me test you in an unfair manner Sniffles--- how do you rank Lieberman as against our own shining Rep. Westmoreland.

Oooh no contest...Lieberman wins in a rout.

Westmoreland has earned his reputation as a buffoonish back-bencher of little consequence. Having said that, he has been a very reliable conservative vote, and represents his conservative constituents to the best of his ability.

Lieberman, sadly, enjoys national prominence. His loyalties to Israel far outstrip his loyalties to America. He lusts after power for power's sake. This will be his last term in the Senate, thankfully.

Senator Specter’s deception as a Republican was neither his first nor his most notable. He has been grandiose, self-serving and not the least committed to cognizant principle, in my opinion. It is remarkable, though, that any politician could enter the halls of Congress, much less avoid unbearable ostracism, after he concoted the theory of a single bullet in the assassination of President Kennedy. Even the Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1979 concluded, in part, that “Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fired at President John F. Kennedy.” Other conclusions in the Warren Commission Report embarrass Specter greatly. I truly wonder, and I will let Sniffles comment---- does the Democratic party really want him? Maybe for the vote but certainly not for the intellectual honesty.

"...does the Democratic party really want him? Maybe for the vote but certainly not for the intellectual honesty."

Exactly! Specter's a loose cannon, he's morphed from what we now call a "centerist Republican" into a "conservative Democrat". I don't trust him at all on union issues, he's flipflopped twice.

It is a good day for america indeed. Does not matter how he voted in the past he is ours now and the power belongs to us. We can move our agenda forward now and capture what belongs to us. A good day indeed.

The days of those that hoard the wealth and enslave millions of us are near gone. In more ways than one we will take what is ours. Let us celebrate today Sniffles for what will be given to us tomorrow.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

You mean THE POWER IS YOURS don't you??
That is what CP always said..Mean old Business owners wanting to pollute the world.. Hold your ring up high blah and summon the one... by the way which one are you??? I think WIND.. the HOT AIR KIND..

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...we will take what is ours...

So I'm curious, what are you going to take and from whom?
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Yikes!

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Well, for one thing, 60 votes ensures that America will once again be able to reclaim the federal judiciary from the conservative judicial activist that have shanghaied nominations for the past 8 years.

It'll be great to see the Senate putting some judges on the bench whose first loyalty is to their country and not their political ideology.

In short: no more Alitos.

LOYALTY TO COUNTRY OVER POLITICAL IDEOLOGY?

I have to get back to cleaning the puke off my computer screen and desk. Sir I do enjoy reading your comments but that was beyond ridiculous.

Take the ill gotten wealth from the hoarders and those that make too much money and spread it about so more opportunites can be had by all. you only need so much and there are people who need your help. we can focus more on community and not being so accumalitively greedy on a personal level. we bust up the all white male country club rich boys klans.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

Are there really people who think like that? When is the last time someone got a job from a poor person? How much money did you donate to charities last year? How will you help anyone to better themselves with such an attitude? You must be a joke!

but if you give money to a poor person, the assumption isn't that they will hoard it...it is that they will SPEND it...doesn't THAT stimulate the economy? What am I missing here? Keep the faith.

Democracy is NOT a spectator sport.

"Take the ill gotten wealth from the hoarders and those that make too much money and spread it about so more opportunites can be had by all."
If you had bothered to try and get an Education then maybe you could earn your own money instead of standing around with your hand out waiting for the Government to come along and take care of you. By the way, what is an "opportunites", the way you write Education says it all. Hell, your not even smart enough to us the "spell check".

Obama's weapon of Choice!

The new Democrat party exposed for what it really is. Blah thanks for confirming it.
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I think that the blah blah character is actually one of our right wing bloggers stirring things up, and is hardly representative of the Democratic party that did the smack down in the last election. I'm just saying.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

I think you've nailed it.

This person's posts read like the French taunters.

You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur King, you and all your silly English knnnniggets.

And now like Sniffles says your wingnut party is going to die like your country club establishment racist bigots government power is going to die now. Are you a sour grape cyclists like Sniffles says?

We people are in power now and our leader who has a special gift will lead us ALL to prospersity. Hope is what you and I have now.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

I don't belong to a country club and I don't live in house the size of Al Gore's mansion. BTW, lead us All to prosperity? Is that after he destroys the middle class?

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How exactly was Obama gonna destroy the middle class? I can't seem to recall a campaign promise to do that.

He will do so by cutting taxes on the lower 50% of income wage earners and overspending. When the lower income brackets are no longer contributing in any appreciable manner to the total revenues collected by the government, naturally that burden shifts to the upper tax brackets. Those upper tax brackets are the driving force of our economy, so when they must pay more to the government, they have less to invest, buy goods and services, etc...
It's really a shame that Democrats misrepresent the truth about taxation. Their insistence on destroying capitalism in this country will cause so much heartache. What will happen is no less than tragic. Our high income wage earners will spend and invest less, so the job market won't grow. This means that the unemployment rate will either level of at some dismal European-esque number, probably double digits, which will remove even more of the tax burden from the lower income levels and shift more of the tax burden to the upper 50%, thus perpetuating the downward spiral.
Meanwhile, our government officials are spending at an unprecedented rate. At some point, the argument will be made that since the deficits are so high, taxes will need to be raised on everyone except for the "unfortunates" that the elected officials will carry the banner for. They, of course will represent a high enough percentage of the population to ensure the election of liberal politicians who will continue to raise taxes, re-distribute wealth and grow the federal government.
Make no mistake, this has been going on for quite awhile now, and Obama simply represents an escalation in the war against the U.S. and our beloved Constitution and Bill Of Rights. The biggest advantage they have over us--"they" meaning the collectivists-- is that they recruit their foot soldiers from our youth to use against us, and the recruiters themselves are trusted educators and politicians, traitors to their own people who have lived among us all their lives.
They are winning, and it certainly doesn't help our cause that so-called conservatives often are christian theocrats who are more interested in governing what happens in someone else's bedroom than fighting for the private citizen's rights against confiscatory levels of taxation and outright confiscation of people's property through abuses of the Imminent Domain and Asset Forfeiture laws. Not only that, but the so-called conservatives don't seem motivated to stop government waste and obscene spending by members of congress who have forgotten that they work for the people and not vice-versa.
Oh yes, Obama will destroy the middle class! I would hasten to add that it will just be collateral damage in this case... The target is the liberty and wealth of the United States, and they will stop at nothing to either possess it or destroy it.
I actually think we've gone past the point of no return. The only questions that I really have at this point are these:
1) When will the elected officials drop the pretense that this is still a country governed by the Constitution, the Bill Of Rights and by an equal application of law?
2) Will the citizens of this country go quietly into that dark night? Most have shown in the past that they will do so readily. How much more insult will they bear before taking a stand?
Laugh, fellow common people. Call me a conspiracy theorist, or worse. Label me an extremist. It doesn't matter. Learn your history and know the truth. The elected officials that you have cast your lot with are not your friends. They do not care about you, save for the number of your votes that will keep them in power, at least long enough for them to be able to do so without your exalted blessing.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled petty disagreements.

"All I ask for is a little common sense. Apparently that's too much to ask for."

Remember that campaign promise about the middle class tax cut. Anyways, does your side claim Comrade Blah?
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To answer your question... NO.

Poor deluded thing. Bless his heart.

"..our leader who has a special gift will lead us ALL to prospersity."

Please tell us how *he* will do this...lead us ALL to prosperity that is...

Does your side claim this one?
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This moderate doesn't like radicals on either side.

but it's fun to poke a stick at it to see what bites back

as me.

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His leadership round the world with countrys we have hurt. Cuba, venezuela, and the peoples he will help. He is fixing health care, stoppng torture, cutting our military, getting us out of iraq, going to persecute the criminals in the Bush administration, fix the mortgage mess, fix banks, and our car industry, He already stabilized much of the bankers. BOA had a profit. Wells Fargo did to. And he is equalizing the races and opportunities.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

Maybe you mean "prosecute"---and you criticize my spelling? And BTW you really oughta capitalize "GOD". And I'll bet there won't be any prosecutions either--not gonna happen.

He's NOT going to redistribute that wealth around like you suggested? So, I still need to keep my job, right? Who is going to shut down the country clubs and the white man clubs? Will Obama do that too? Will he take my gun? Will he really take Git's viagra away too

I like the Cialis commercials better so my pills are yeller colored. I didn't know you had a gun too? Errr... for my more firearms cultured friends.... weapon of choice.

Don't Spread My Wealth.... Spread My Work Ethic

Commercials as in TV?????
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First your comrade and now you? Why's everbody always picking on me?

Remember.... I travel. They have TV's in hotel rooms. Plus my rabbit ears at the farm.....

Don't Spread My Wealth.... Spread My Work Ethic

I'll let you in on a little secret. The president actually increased military spending. Please try to keep up.
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He's just some wacko from a third world country (his remark)that thinks since Obama is in office he is going to inherit the United States. Like the old timers around here used to say when they saw some kid making a Fool of himself, SOME PEOPLES KIDS!
I wonder if he got his first check yet?

Obama's weapon of Choice!

First check.... chuckle . I really want to believe that this one is way out on fringe. But when I read Blah and Maxine Waters I'm wondering if this is really the core of the Democrat party. So the new party slogan for the Democrats is...we will take what is ours. I have a little trouble with that one. I hope JeffC approves of this.
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As much as this one: "We will exploit the ignorant".

He's doomed to disappointment but hey, a vote is a vote.

no way would I ever vote for your racist wingnut party.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

Perhaps you meant "you're", the contraction for "you are".

LOL. The other day I had someone tell me: "You needs to read up on that more" and they's thought they'd be done won the argument.

See Cy... he's not one of mine.

I think Blah likes you.

Don't Spread My Wealth.... Spread My Work Ethic

You old goat. Sorry about lunch today. I'll get back with you later.
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Tried the Broadway Diner in F'ville. Huge menu (Everything there available all day),generous portions, good service, not as good as the Country Cooking Buffet in Senoia (at the crossroad) for the price. I had Fried Flounder (3 pieces) and wife had a Gyro (OK, but nowhere near as good as what we used to get at Shipfeiffer's downtown). Oh, in Senoia, old farts 60+ get a discount! It's all you can eat and we ate for $14 & change. Cy, didn't mean to capture your post, just saw the opportunity to spread some dining news.

We just tried it out Monday for the first time. The Chicken Ceasar Salad was great. I want to try a few more meals, but I really like the desserts in the case at the door. Looks like a great place for cake and coffee.

I've been eating at Senoia's Country Cooking Buffet since I moved here several years ago. Lately, though, I have noticed at steep decline in the quality of the food.

I swear the fried chicken was so dryed out it was almost mummified!

That wasn't our experience two weeks ago. Though Hamburger Steak was the special of the day,we both also had a piece of fried chicken which was crispy on the outside but tender and moist inside. Veggies (butterbeans, collards, and the mashed potatos) were all good. So was the salad bar. We'll go back.

from buffets.
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And the working class stuggles.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

I guess you think Birdman and I make too much and that you have a right to it.
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needs to go and not be heard from anymore. And Birdman wont mind helpig out more. We are for the same things. so get used to natiaonal healthcare and get used to your viagra pills being cut back so children can have better health care.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

And your lunch buddy Git needs to go and not be heard from anymore.

I guess if you dare to disagree you're an outcast. Now, where have I seen this thought before?

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Cy? Did you tell your comrade that you had to cancel lunch? I guess we could have invited him had we known he was hungry too.

Don't Spread My Wealth.... Spread My Work Ethic

Ahhhh, maybe you just might want to check the spelling of "National"--remember, you fired the first shot!

needs to go and not be heard from anymore. And Birdman wont mind helpig out more. We are for the same things. so get used to natiaonal healthcare and get used to your viagra pills being cut back so children can have better health care.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

I'm all for that but you should be preaching that line to THEIR PARENTS! That's whose responsibility that is!

I would ask Birdman. He's sometimes sensitive about his pay. BTW, how much skin are you going to offer?
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needs to go and not be heard from anymore. And Birdman wont mind helpig out more. We are for the same things. so get used to natiaonal healthcare and get used to your viagra pills being cut back so children can have better health care.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

needs to go and not be heard from anymore. And Birdman wont mind helpig out more. We are for the same things. so get used to natiaonal healthcare and get used to your viagra pills being cut back so children can have better health care.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

needs to go and not be heard from anymore. And Birdman wont mind helpig out more. We are for the same things. so get used to natiaonal healthcare and get used to your viagra pills being cut back so children can have better health care.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

Maybe bonkers was reincarnated into Blah Blah? Some of his/her comments remind me of the old coot.

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blah definitly sounds like snit/sage/bonk et..al..

I will not lower my standards.. So UP YOURS..

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