OH, we probably won’t be any each other’s throats tomorrow, if only because I’m too tired and too busy to write much these days. There are crises in multiple abundance for me these days…in part with tending to the needs of my aging parents, and the effects of the advancing Alzheimers. It’s a difficult thing that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Finally some attention is being given to the whole bundle of issues involving geriatric care, but what a mess of a system we have when we can’t provide even the slightest bit of assistance to those who have been working and paying into this system all of their lives, doing what they thought was the responsible thing. You know…the old school..pay all bills, (my mother used to actually CALL the utility companies ASKING where her bill was, if it didn’t arrive when she expected it…nope…not me.) and all of that. But when it comes down to the reality, there’s been something so very broken in our system, going back -in what I think is our shared analysis - to Ronald Regan, that this is what we’ve wound up with.
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Oh, Cyrena, I know exactly what you are going through—it’s happening to my mother.  She’s still lucid enough to live alone, but my sibs and I worry about her.  Meanwhile, we pushed her neurologist to determine whether she was a good Aricept candidate and she was. It’s been near-miraculous.  She is SO much sharper, and faster in her wit and wits.  It has not just arrested the decline, but seems to have reversed it somewhat, which it’s not supposed to do.  She still has many lapses, and it certainly hasn’t brought back lost memories, but it HAS sharpened her current thinking processes and SHE is acutely aware of the difference.  She feels like she’s herself again.  I’m thinking: OK, we don’t have to get her out of her house in the next year, but maybe not for 5 years.  Still it’s very hard.

The real curse of middle age is what happens to our parents, not our own aging and loss of our youthful looks and fitness and weight gain.  Our parents lose mental and physical capacity, and then pass, so we lose them completely.  My dad is already gone, and Mom misses him terribly—it’s been 6 years and she still cries thinking about him.

You remind of the agnostic dyslexic insomniac who stays up all night wondering if there is a Dog…..

By Inherit The Wind, April 29 at 8:05 pm #

Thanks, Cyrena.  Always glad to hear I made your day. It gives me a smile.  Who knows? Tomorrow we may be at each other’s throat.

I’ve been called every d*** thing you can imagine on TD.  My fav is being called a dog.  We have a new dog and he’s beautiful and smart and athletic and funny and loving with every single person—and he’s different with each one, from the little 4 year old, to big ole me.  So…where’s the insult in being called a dog? In fact, if there’s reincarnation I wanna come back as my wife’s dog, and if not that, one of her cats.  Believe me, they live the good life!

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Well inherit, even for us secular folks, keep in mind what dog is spelled backwards. Quite frankly, I think it’s a compliment, but then in my ‘culture’ canines and birds pretty much rule. I actually DO believe in reincarnation, so I’ve put in a request to come back as a bird. But, my love of canines is enduring. Still miss my best canine friend of many years, since she Walked 3 years ago.

So yeah, that’s a compliment.

And you’re right; my best canine girl had a good life too… At least the part that she spent with me. At least that’s what I like to believe.

OH, we probably won’t be any each other’s throats tomorrow, if only because I’m too tired and too busy to write much these days. There are crises in multiple abundance for me these days…in part with tending to the needs of my aging parents, and the effects of the advancing Alzheimers. It’s a difficult thing that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Finally some attention is being given to the whole bundle of issues involving geriatric care, but what a mess of a system we have when we can’t provide even the slightest bit of assistance to those who have been working and paying into this system all of their lives, doing what they thought was the responsible thing. You know…the old school..pay all bills, (my mother used to actually CALL the utility companies ASKING where her bill was, if it didn’t arrive when she expected it…nope…not me.) and all of that. But when it comes down to the reality, there’s been something so very broken in our system, going back -in what I think is our shared analysis - to Ronald Regan, that this is what we’ve wound up with.

I’m not sure exactly all of WHAT has happened, or all of the HOW’s, (though it had been my plan to try and figure it out at some point) so I think of Hannah Arndt’s work that I so admire, and her comments about the immediate aftermath of WWII, when the terror finally stopped. She mentions that she and her friends/neighbors/colleagues were still in a sort of shock…they weren’t sure even WHAT had ‘happened’ to them, let alone HOW they had gone from a standard democratic government (at least Germany’s was) to be terrorized by the likes of Hitler and the USSR’s Stalin.

Anyway, life happens, and we adapt as best we can, based on whatever common sense and good judgment we’ve managed to accumulate at this point. So I only said that to say that we may not have as much time to argue as we used to, but I still like hearing from you.

By Paracelsus, April 30 at 8:39 am
““I suspect that a large portion of Congress is being blackmailed into unwise legislation by various honeypot and honeytrap schemes.”“
““So neither party has a monopoly on this?”“
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I have always thought of this as skeleton-in-the-closet politics and it includes anything up to murder and genocide to planning attacks on our own country. And here is where rendition is still a pliable tool to decrease the change of a ‘leak’ that would harm the reputation of those ‘national treasures’ our electorate. It is not hard to get into it, just be sure you have someone you want to control or ask a favor of somewhere down the road be with you or you frame them such they would rather lie than be exposed and voila’, tit for tat, see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil.
Too bad no one knows how to crack this rotten egg open and letting out a bunch secrets that in a real world would see a lot of people go up for hard time and high fines. This has a whole lot to do with pork and earmarks.

Yes Paracelsus, whenever I am given the choice between a complex conspiracy/blackmail plot and a simple explanation of stupid people electing even stupider people to any elected office I too will go for the conspiracy because it just makes so much more sense. It couldn’t possibly be that these elected officials sold their souls to the Ownership Class so that they would get a chance to feed at the government trough and get the chance to weld Power and get Prestige because those aren’t really something that any human wants now, is it?

The ‘magic bullet theory’ of Specter’s should alarm everybody in Pa. It shows that Mr. Specter has no principles and will DO WHAT HE IS TOLD. As a Phila Democrat I never voted for this opertunist and I will not start now. To begin with; How does an assistant DA from Phila. get on the Warren Commission? To serve what perpose? What were the reward for his partisipation in the cover-up, and most importantly, WHO ARE HIS MASTERS.

@ Kesey Seven
@ Jackpine Straw
@ TheHandyman

I suspect that a large portion of Congress is being blackmailed into unwise legislation by various honeypot and honeytrap schemes.

http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics and History/interview_with_john_decamp.htm

“It’s gridlock by sexual blackmail. That’s what’s going on between the Republicans and the Democrats right now. It’s absolutely tragic.

So neither party has a monopoly on this?

That’s right. In my book, I describe how I was at the Republican National Convention in Dallas and a lot of these young people, who were victims, were there at the same time. I didn’t have any idea what was going on back then.”

http://bushstole04.com/bushfascism/newly_posted_gannon_7A.htm

“...Franklin was raided in November 1988 by federal regulators, and King, a wheeler-dealer with Washington connections, went to jail. The Nebraska legislature launched a probe, only to have their chief investigator, among others, die violently under suspicious circumstances.”

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=8516

“Over the year that I worked with them, I was amazed at the team’s ability to gather new documents and witnesses which kept opening up new and frightening facts about Franklin. They were a crack team. In the final weeks that they were in Nebraska, they expressed their certainty that they would win awards for this documented horror story of government-sanctioned abuse of children; and government protection of some of this country’s most powerful businessmen and politicians, who had been the chief acts in the Franklin story.”

http://www.johnnygosch.com/cos.htm

“The following archive paints a chilling portrait of what is really going on in the upper echelons of the ruling elite here in America. The story involves children from orphanages in Nebraska being flown around the United States by top Republican officials in order to engage in child sex orgies with America’s ruling elite. It is a fact that during the 1980’s, child sexual services were provided by top Republican officials to key, bureaucrats and diplomats but most importantly, there is a chilling proximity of all of these events and personalities, to the President of the United States at the time, George H.W. Bush. And there have been victims who claim that the President himself engaged in the activities. It is a tale of child sex, murder, espionage, blackmail, and huge payoffs. And all the players are involved. From the White House to the CIA to the media barrons to the Republican elite - right down to the orphanages where they procured their victims.”

The new Congress won’t guarantee much change as I see it, because the legislators will have to be just as compromised as the old crew in order to be in positions of power.

Seriously, the modern Democratic Party is to the right of Richard Nixon.  Specter will fit right in, and if we’re lucky there will be a bit of confusion and Phil’s hairdresser and stylist will show up to give Arlen a makeover that’ll really help him relate to the youth vote.

I’m with Paracelsus.  Congress is like a strange attractor for the worst of America…or a pile of sh*t that the flies congregate on.

Sit down and watch some C-Span sometime and tell me that Congress is where the best and the brightest end up.  I wouldn’t buy a used car from 90% of those people, and i’d swear that at least a quarter of them are illiterate.

Or maybe the august body is just a little too representative of our nation.

In any case, once the Dems have 60 i expect things to get done as they’ll have no excuses left.  But i’m sure that we’ll hear Harry Reid say that he heard that the Republicans were thinking that if they could filibuster then they would…and that will be enough to make Brave Harry wet himself a little and call off the legislation.

Let me know when the Dems repeal the PATRIOT Act, withdraw troops from various illegal wars, draw up a budget that makes some sense, or accomplish anything else that they always say they “can’t” do even though they’d really, really like to.

I’ll be holding my breath…

Arlen Specter is to independent as John McCain is to Maverick. Ever since his one bullet theory Specter has said more about doing than he has ever actually done and in most cases he has done opposite of what he has said. Specter’s switch to the Demowon’ts was done more to help him get reelected than it was about doing the right thing or any thing that didn’t serve him first. The GOP’s refusal to help him and give him money was the real reason and the Dems thought they needed him more than he needed them. The Dems got suckered again! It wasn’t all that long ago that he swore he would never change parties for any reason. That right there say everything one needs to know about him.

He says that he won’t vote for EFCA in a state where the unions are big. Wouldn’t it be ironic if he jumped parties and then the Dems ran someone against him and he lost which is what is in the works.

Finally, what this really proves is that what Ralph Nader said some 10 or 15 years ago which was that there was hardly a hairs breadths difference between the two parties. Specter’s becoming a Demowon’t is indicative of that reality. Did Specter suddenly change his priorities, his principles, did he have an epiphany? I think not. He will huddle with the Blue Dogs who are Repugs in Dem clothing and continue to serve the Owners and Corporations who have the other end of his choke chain!

@ Kesey Seven

Thank you, I had a Ralph Nader moment.

To Paracelsus,

No problem. I realized as I sent it that it could be misconstrued. 

If you could have been here and seen me tilting back my head and howling with laughter as I read your post you would have known I was sincere. It was a delight. 

To Mercury, Sulfur and Salt, to our inner essence and outward form: cheers!

@ Kesey Seven

Pardon me. I had a tone deaf moment. I have spent too much time on HuffPo.

To Paracelsus,

Maybe so, but I sincerely liked your statement. I thought it was right on the money. I have laughed and cried many times when confronted with profound truth.

@ Kesey Seven

Thank you for giving me a deep satisfying belly laugh.

Within less than a year, you will be crying.

To Paracelsus,

Regarding your statement: 

“If the Bildebergers, the CFR, the Federal Reserve, the Bohemian Grove, and the Skull and Boners are the wrong people, pray tell me who are the right people.”

Thank you for giving me a deep satisfying belly laugh.

just as paracelsus claims to hate Congress as a whole. He should go back to wherever he came from, since that’s just the way this system HERE is set up, and has been, for a few centuries.

That’s funny: Love it or leave it from a so-called liberal. I have good reason to hate Congress. First they vote to get rid of most of the Bill of Rights, and then they push to get rid of 2A with a bogus UN treaty vote in the Senate. On the contrary it is Congress and the executive who want to go against our tradition of civil liberties, and I am made out to be some sort of enemy of the state.

Mostly they’re just all pissed off at the wrong people.

If the Bildebergers, the CFR, the Federal Reserve, the Bohemian Grove, and the Skull and Boners are the wrong people, pray tell me who are the right people.

I look forward to this being a trend, not so much with politicians but with journalists.

Arianna Huffington was once a Republican. Witness The Huffington Post. But Ariana is a special case. She was married to Bill Maher. All that liberal dickering must have opened up whole new worlds for her.   

The World Is Flat dunderhead and advocate for the Iraq War, Thomas Friedman, now wants to be known as an environmentalist. He sees a green bestseller. 

In the future I predict Ann Coulter will act like a man and switch to the Democratic Party. She’ll do that when she realizes she can make a profit doing it. I love that woman. 

Corporations, too, will take the liberal plunge. CNBC will start looking for more Keith Olbermans. 

CNN will scratch it’s shallow head and wonder how it can cash in on the sea change, too. Picture Noam Choamski as an anchor. 

FOX, well, can’t see it. Murdoch won’t change, can’t change, too old, too truculent. Sa la vie. 

And Limbaugh . . . twenty years from now he’ll be sitting in that chair looking like a speaking beached whale lamenting to his audience of octogenarians that all the true Republicans are either dead and gone or have switched teams in the middle of the game. Cherish the day.

Kesey Seven

Arlen Specter is No Rubber Stamp! “I will continue my independent voting and follow my conscience…” Even though I often disagree with the Senator, his decisions are based on the facts, common sense and The Constitution, not party line emotion. Hopefully, he will continue to be an independent voice of reason for ALL Americans.

On the Issues… http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Arlen_Specter.htm

Thanks, Cyrena.  Always glad to hear I made your day. It gives me a smile.  Who knows? Tomorrow we may be at each other’s throat.

I’ve been called every d*** thing you can imagine on TD.  My fav is being called a dog.  We have a new dog and he’s beautiful and smart and athletic and funny and loving with every single person—and he’s different with each one, from the little 4 year old, to big ole me.  So…where’s the insult in being called a dog? In fact, if there’s reincarnation I wanna come back as my wife’s dog, and if not that, one of her cats.  Believe me, they live the good life!

Inherit the Wind writes in response to Prole
“There are, what? 7 Jews in the Senate?
But to Trole, that’s “crawling”, yet if ANYONE labels him the anti-semite he is, “The Contingent” will be screaming “ZIONIST FASCIST!”.
You don’t like ‘em? Vote ‘em out of office.  Too bad you lose on Norm Coleman—he’s out but Franken is in.
The far, far left and the far, far right, as usual, are actually just about the same.  Same racists, same fascists.”

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Thanks ITW. You always have a way of making my day with your literary bullseyes. I’m serious. The last line is right on target, except of course the left and right stuff has proven to be sort of confusing over the years. So, I just call ‘em RABID RADICALS, but they’re still the same racists and the same fascists no matter what location they are on the line. At some point with these rabid radicals,  (or racists or fascists) they all start to blend together. IOW, at some point in on the line, the radical right and the radical left simply merge into the same radical crazies that they are.

Mostly they’re just all pissed off at the wrong people. These are the types that wouldn’t be satisfied with ANYBODY, just as paracelsus claims to hate Congress as a whole. He should go back to wherever he came from, since that’s just the way this system HERE is set up, and has been, for a few centuries. I can’t claim it to be a perfect system, but it certainly does have provisions built in for changing it, and the worst of the perpetual bitchers and moaners will never actively participate in anything other than bitching and moaning.

knowing that he pushed the magic bullet theory of the JFK assassination, I never really liked Spector. I think of Congress as a wrecking crew, and the only protection I feel I have is when the Senate is not fillibuster proof. With 60 Democratic senators these clowns can figure out ways to destroy the Bill of Rights under left wing cover, whereas the prior Senates could wreak their destruction under right wing cover. I don’t look for a party platform; I look for a government agenda through several Congresses.

By Inherit The Wind, April 29 at 7:25 am

I agree with that list of s**t. Especially with reagan. I didn’t like him since I had seen him on tv acting out his cowboy fantasies. And he proceeded in making correct in his fantasy role of president.

Nixon was about the same I guess because he looked like a gangster. I remember calling him slick dick nic and my father almost hitting me for saying it.

prole, April 29 at 2:29 pm #

  Good ‘ol Arlen - another self-promoting Jew in a Senate chamber crawling with them!
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There are, what? 7 Jews in the Senate?

But to Trole, that’s “crawling”, yet if ANYONE labels him the anti-semite he is, “The Contingent” will be screaming “ZIONIST FASCIST!”.

You don’t like ‘em? Vote ‘em out of office.  Too bad you lose on Norm Coleman—he’s out but Franken is in.

The far, far left and the far, far right, as usual, are actually just about the same.  Same racists, same fascists.

Here is what he did not say about his change of loyalties.
 
  “I have been a Republican since 1966. I have been working extremely hard for the Party, for its candidates and for” the corporations and privileged elites it faithfully serves. With “the ideals of a Republican Party whose tent is big enough to welcome diverse points of view” as long as they conform to the narrow interests of the power elites, “I have been comfortable”. “Being a Republican, my Party has not defined who I am. I have taken each issue one at a time and have exercised independent judgment to do what I thought was best for” myself, my cronies, members of my economic class - and most of all, for Israel. “Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right” - obviously Ray-gun was not far to the right so I could pursue my cunning self-interest by riding his electoral coattails. “Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats. I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans”, i.e. I put my finger up to the political wind and it’s blowing in a different direction and my entire “political philosophy” can be summed up in two words: ‘get re-elected’.  “When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party. But, I saw the stimulus as necessary to lessen the risk of” my being defeated in the next general election. “On this state of the record, I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate” because they might defeat me. “I have not represented the Republican Party. I have represented the people of” Israel. “I am also disappointed that so many in the Party I have worked for for more than four decades do not want me to be their candidate” - not to mention so many outside the Party and PA. “No Senator, no matter how loyal he is to his Party, should or would put party loyalty above his duty to the state” of Israel or his own self-interest and those of his cohorts. “My change in party affiliation does not mean that I will be a party-line voter any more for the Democrats that I have been for the Republicans. For example, my position on” union-busting will not change. “Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by” crass self-interest and AIPAC dictates. “I will continue my independent voting and follow my conscience on what I think is best for” myself and Israel. These are the the guiding principles of the Democratic machine as well as the Republican machine so the nominal label won’t make much difference. Shucks, with my “political philosophy”, I could run on the Likud Party ticket.
 
  Good ‘ol Arlen - another self-promoting Jew in a Senate chamber crawling with them!

As a registered voter in the state of Pennsylvania, I have come to some conclusions regarding the party affiliation switch of Sen. Arlen Specter;
1) His is an honest and reasonable, plus ideological switch. He made this decision after many heart wrenching hours of conscience seeking and talking with the people of Pennsylvania.
2) Sen. Arlen Specter is no fool, the Grand Orgy Party has changed since the entrance of the Far Right Wing Nuts into politics in the guise of ‘the Moral Majority.’  Nothing since then regarding the GOP has ever been the same. True Conservatives have been shunted aside for ideologues of the worst stripe
imaginable. Sen. Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley Jr., and all of the true intellectual Republicans have become dinosaurs of the forgotten era. There are no more of the old school thinking conservatives who at the end of the day were friends with their fellow senators.
3) In point of fact, the GOP was pouring money into other candidates coffers for their election campaigns. No other party would desert their sitting re-electable candidate other than these Far Right Wing Nuts. This is something unheard of in the annals
of politics.
Arlen Specter is an honest man with the character to stand up to the powers that be. His integrity has been shown time and again, and he has the people of the state of Pennsylvania and the United States of America at heart.
Thank you, Senator Arlen Specter for your courage and integrity, the courage to switch parties in the face of underwhelming support from your former party members and the integrity to admit that the people of Pennsylvania deserve a senator who will seek out the best for them and their fellow countrymen.

Here’s the Deal Arlen, We finally put the Corp Whore Clintonites and their DLC members back on a leash.We have no intentions of taking that leash off the ‘ConservaDems’.
Heres Rule 1 as a ‘Dem’- Human rights, aka Equal rights for All, ‘We the People’
Rule 2- Labor Rights,aka The right to organize and bargin as a collective.“We the People’
Rule 3 - Consumer Rights- We are the masters of the Corps, not the other way around.“We the People’
Rule 4 - Generational Respect and investment- both for our elderly and our kids. This includes those pesky ‘entitlements’, healthcare,Education and the Environment.‘We the People’
Rule 5- The Vision of our Founders in regards to international community- ‘We the People’ extends to ALL humanity.
The “R"epublic is nothing more than an institutional entity. The “D"emocracy is Living Breathing faces of ‘We the People’. A Good Dem knows the difference, and always acts (and votes) accordingly.When in doubt refer to those three words..“We the People” and the Dems will always support you.
EFCA- How say You?

samosamo, April 29 at 1:00 am #

No I don’t. I will never vote for a republican again, well, better to say I have no intention to do so. And the saddest thing about these obfuscating politics in this country is that we vote them all in to be set upon by those lobbyist vultures. So every election, be it local, state, federal, a person hopes they voted for the right person. This is where the MSM has turned campaigning into personality contests and real issues are treated from well placed telepromters.
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Yeah, well, I made that decision after Christine Todd Whitman was re-elected in 1997, and proceeded to leave NJ in a financial mess when she joined Botch’s team in 2001, and was promptly humiliated by Botch.  That was the last time I voted for Repug and it was ONLY because she was running against Jim McGreevy, who, BEFORE he became Governor 4 years later, was incredibly…McSleezy.  And Whitman is a LIBERAL in today’s GOP, going back to her election in 1993.

The only GOP Senator I ever voted for was John Warner in VA—when his opponent was Lyndon LaRouche.

I’ve never voted for a Republican presidential candidate.  They haven’t put up anyone who wasn’t a POS since Ike.  OK, maybe not Jerry Ford—but he was fairly incompetent, if not a POS. Goldwater was a POS in 1964—it wasn’t until later that his conservatism went from political expediency to a true philosophy.

1960 Nixon
1964 Goldwater
1968, 1972 Nixon
1976 Ford
1980, 1984 Reagan
1988, 1992 Bush Sr.
1996 Dole
2000, 2004 Botch
2008 McCain

Other than Ford all pieces of $#!t.

Clarence Thomas hearings: Fellow committee member Arlen Specter (R-PA) excoriates Hill in a long and brutal round of questioning, at one point accusing her of perjury. He even submits a psuedo-psychological analysis of Hill to the committee that portrays her as imagining the events she is testifying towards.

A republican, like any other sociopath, cannot be reformed.

By Inherit The Wind, April 28 at 11:18 pm

No I don’t. I will never vote for a republican again, well, better to say I have no intention to do so. And the saddest thing about these obfuscating politics in this country is that we vote them all in to be set upon by those lobbyist vultures. So every election, be it local, state, federal, a person hopes they voted for the right person. This is where the MSM has turned campaigning into personality contests and real issues are treated from well placed telepromters.

I was admittedly surprised and overwhelming impressed by this decision on the part of Senator Specter.
But, maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised, since for the most part, Specter has shown a considerable amount of independence in the lengthy time he’s been in the Congress.  I don’t always (or even usually) agree with him, but then I don’t usually agree with most republicans.
Still, when he says this,

•  “The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation. And no Senator, no matter how loyal he is to his Party, should or would put party loyalty above his duty to the state and nation.”
I’m willing to accept that at face value, because I think it’s true, even if it’s a political tactic. I really DON’T care which ‘party’ solves the problems/crises we’re living, but the practical and logical presumption is that the Republicans aren’t anywhere close to being at all interested in resolving these issues, and they don’t give a damn about the people of their state, or how their decisions (votes) affect the rest of us. That’s on top of the fact that it’s been the republican party, (or the neocon Cabal that has highjacked it) that has brought us to the brink and on our knees as we are today.  Just plain old common sense with a touch of good political judgement based on experience and a measure of intelligence seems to make this a no-brainer.

Anyway, I’m impressed. He should hook-up with Lawrence Wilkerson, (Colin Powell’s former chief of staff) because he’s been blowing off steam about the highjacking of the old Republican Party for a long time. There was even a blog or similar forum going there for a while on “Cease Wilkerson”. (They wanted to shut him up – he wasn’t having it.) It was actually sort of humerous. I’ll have to see if I can find it again.

Meantime, the Repugs screwed themselves long ago, (along with the rest of the US population, not to mention the millions of other victims across the globe) and Specter would be a zip damn fool to hang around, at least if he is a committed public servant, and there ARE still a number of them around, many of whom have had to ‘lay low’ for the past 8 years, just to keep from being knocked off. (as in fired, blacklisted, financially decapitated, or even mysteriously disappeared.)

This politics thing can really be a nasty business, eh? Then again, maybe there IS a measure of self-correction going on. I’m not sure. I’m thinking ‘self-correction’ as enough people left in the apparatus who are capable of responding to the disaster-in-progress, which is our current situation.

Samo,
Chill.
I don’t want ANOTHER neo-con Rethuglican in the Senate. Do you?

By Inherit The Wind, April 28 at 10:40 pm

So you know this emphatically to be true? Well, according to your comment I will take it that you think everyone in congress should just fucking stay there and their sons and daughters ‘inherit’ their father’s or mother’s position in congress. Well, back to the samo fucking goddamn faces in congress and we get no where.

So just your 30 years of senatehood with maybe another 6 tacked on in 2010, makes me think the you really don’t need to serve any more, we need new faces with more honest ideas for the people and less for corporate thugs.
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So….You want a neo-con right-wingnut Rethuglican to replace Spector?  Because that’s what you’ll get.

At least one Republican was smart enough not to follow the rest of the lemmings off the Right Wing cliff!

Oh really? I know better that to look political ‘gift horses’ in the mouth. And now we look at you running for relection in the senate in 2010 that will give you supposedly 36 years in the senate when you were first elected in 1980. It might lessen the apprehension a little going from repub to dem but that makes no meaningful change to me.

Actions speak louder than rhetoric and there are far too many issues in this country that need changing and have been for several decades. Since you started in 1980, I will assume you went along with ronnie reagan’s, G.H.W. Bush’s, Clinton’s, junior’s and now with a president that campaigned on change which has not produced much from those promises. You and the ‘best and brightest’ are still finanically driving this country into the ground. People who have vested interest in personal, monetary, political gain still dictate and bribe the electorate to get legislation to benefit them and weaken the taxpayer.

What is gonna change? When will it change? To keep asking these obvious questions with no real answer with a plan much less actual verifiable movement towards action to produce these changes is like jacking off the mule. The people get nothing except the right to throw more and more of their money into a policial corporate black hole.

So just your 30 years of senatehood with maybe another 6 tacked on in 2010, makes me think the you really don’t need to serve any more, we need new faces with more honest ideas for the people and less for corporate thugs.