Arlen Specter wonders: Is Harry Reid up to his job?
posted at 8:26 pm on December 5, 2007 by Bryan
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A lot of Republicans have wondered the same thing about Arlen Specter over the years. But the fact is, in a curious way Specter’s career of maverick gasbaggery actually puts him on solid footing to ask whether Harry Reid has the wattage to lead the Senate. Coming from a bona fide conservative, the question could be dismissed as mere partisanship. Coming from the Senator from Scotland, it comes off as something closer to statesmanship.
Sen. Arlen Specter today challenged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s ability to serve as leader, saying the Nevada Democrat sabotaged progress on long-stalled spending and taxes bills by calling Republican lawmakers “puppets” for President Bush.
“I really wonder if he’s up to the job when he resorts to that kind of statement, which can only further the level of rancor and animosity with that kind of an insulting comment,” Mr. Specter, Pennsylvania Republican, said on the Senate floor.
The criticism punctuated the stalemate in the Democrat-led Congress, which is fast approaching the end of the session without a fix to tax increases set to clobber middle-class families next month and without passing 11 of the 12 annual appropriation bills for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
Meanwhile, Mr. Reid is poised to call another vote linking emergency war funds to a plan for a U.S. pullout from Iraq. The same measure failed in a vote lost month, as did 63 similar Iraq votes this year.
By all means, Sen. Reid, let’s have surrender vote #64 even while things are looking up in Iraq. Let’s hammer the middle class with a tax hike and call the people that you need to bail you out “puppets.” Let’s lay off thousands of defense workers in the middle of a war. That’s some brilliant statecraft you’ve got working there.
So what’s Searchlight’s solution? Bring the Senate back over Christmas. But just the Senate, not the House, since Harry isn’t the boss of Nancy–
Reid, for his part, also reiterated that he can’t boss around House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), although it wasn’t clear who was exactly suggested that he could.
“I can’t control Speaker Pelosi,” Reid said. “She is a strong, independent woman.”
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Are we sure reid is still alive? he’s lookin’ awfully corpse-like.
lorien1973 on December 5, 2007 at 8:29 PM
How do I put it Harry?….hmmmmmm….whooped? Yeah…that’s it….whooped.
Limerick on December 5, 2007 at 8:30 PM
If there was ever an expert on not being up to his job, it’s Arlen Specter.
P.S. I wonder how many illegal aliens he’s been talking to lately at his gym?
ReubenJCogburn on December 5, 2007 at 8:31 PM
If his career as a politician ever falters he can always get a job doing voice-overs for tampon ads.
aengus on December 5, 2007 at 8:33 PM
His job is pandering to Kos Edwards and Clinton.
He’s doing it perfectly.
silverfox on December 5, 2007 at 8:36 PM
Are we sure Harry Reid is not really
Neville Chamberlain in disguise.haha
canopfor on December 5, 2007 at 8:36 PM
I have been a severe critic of Arlen the Specter, a RINO (republican in name only) of the first order. But RubenJCogburn sums it up perfectly.
And Bryan’s reference to wattage and Hairy Reid is right on as well. Reid is pretty dim.
Zorro on December 5, 2007 at 8:44 PM
Trend? Harry? Do you see a trend?
yo on December 5, 2007 at 8:59 PM
Specter – Reid…seperated at birth! Both excude incomprehensible political positions that prove they only hear themselves.
dmann on December 5, 2007 at 8:59 PM
Scotland resents the implied relationship, and will be declaring war immediately, with my full support, unless it is withdrawn forthwith.
Frozen Tex on December 5, 2007 at 9:02 PM
Frozen Tex on December 5, 2007 at 9:02 PM
Lock and load!!!!!
dmann on December 5, 2007 at 9:12 PM
If that man got any grayer we’ll have to send him to area 51 just north of Las Vegas.
SouthernGent on December 5, 2007 at 9:13 PM
Reid couldn’t play stinkfinger with a handful of s**t.
hillbillyjim on December 5, 2007 at 9:13 PM
In Senator Harry Reid’s defense I have to say that he is immanently qualified to perform his function as he sees it, which is to be a loser. That boy has a lot of “lose” in him.
TheSitRep on December 5, 2007 at 9:22 PM
Truth be told, almost all of congress would be thrown out on their ass if they were in the real world. Where results are expected and demanded. But feelings and positions without results is how these career baby kissers maintain there pathetic “lives.”
Bush is joining them with this mortgage bail out for everyone except the ones that pay their bills and make wise choices.
sunny on December 5, 2007 at 9:22 PM
We’re laughing at some of the most important people in the US gov’t. It’s a crying shame for our country who’s leading us.
JiangxiDad on December 5, 2007 at 9:25 PM
Did Specter finally drop a set or I am just reading a misprint?
jdsmith0021 on December 5, 2007 at 9:27 PM
I’m amazed this nimrod can control his own bladder.
CurtZHP on December 5, 2007 at 9:41 PM
Takes one to know one.
Wattage? In the femto watts if any at all.
Kini on December 5, 2007 at 9:51 PM
In a street fight, I would pick Nancy over Harry any day.
sMack on December 5, 2007 at 9:53 PM
What? Reid’s not liberal enough for Arlen?
Valiant on December 5, 2007 at 10:00 PM
Is this the best the dems could find. If the American people don’t get tired of this dog and pony show soon I fear for my country. On an up note at least the government can’t screw me that much if they are bickering like schoolchildren
unseen on December 5, 2007 at 10:06 PM
Where the heck is Tommy when you need him? He’d know what to do (or not to do)…
‘mr. Reid, paging TOMMY to the nearest yellow courtesy phone’
shooter on December 5, 2007 at 10:33 PM
Bwahahahahahah! Cracks me up that Arlen (or anyone) would even wonder. Lately it’s been abundantly clear, Harry Reid is well over his head.
He’s an embarrassment to his party, and so I enjoy it every time he goes on TV.
petefrt on December 5, 2007 at 11:01 PM
Good ‘ol Arlen Specter. A fair-weather partisan if ever there was one.
One thing’s for sure: when Arlen bails out, you can be sure the flight is almost over….
R.I.P Harry Reid’s career.
unamused on December 6, 2007 at 12:53 AM
In a dark alley without security cameras I think Nancy would pull a knife and Reid would pull a bunch of greenbacks
Nancy is tough but I think Reid would win because he would leave no marks
It is funny to see Bush puppet Specter upset that someone called Republican lawmakers “puppets” for President Bush
Specter would make a great Bobble Head Doll
entagor on December 6, 2007 at 12:55 AM
How do we know that he can? We DO know he can’t control his his other function. He is full of BS and he lets it fly every time he opens his mouth. You can usually accept the fact that someone is stupid but not someone who is an evil bas**rd. This dude is a disgrace to his state and to this country.
OBX Pete on December 6, 2007 at 4:21 AM
I believe this is in reference to his silly attempt during the Clinton Impeachment to vote “Not Proven”, a verdict a Scottish jury can reach, but there is no foundation in OUR law for such a verdict/vote.
darkpixel on December 6, 2007 at 5:22 AM
Everything thing dingy Harry does is based on his hateful and self-loathing nature. He wants everyone to be as miserable and loathsome as he is.
He is so desperate to be somebody that he would willingly destroy everything and everybody around him in order to win at something, just once.
Nevada should be punished severally for electing this loser. Oh, wait, they are being punished by being associated with this turd.
leanright on December 6, 2007 at 7:18 AM
(Hateful and self loathing), otherwise know as the Rosey syndrome.
leanright on December 6, 2007 at 7:20 AM
imbecile (ĭm’bə-sĭl)
n.
1). One who continues doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result each time.
Freedom on December 6, 2007 at 9:30 AM
Maybe Reid should get in the presidential race. He would fit right in with the “losers” the democrats already have there.
duff65 on December 6, 2007 at 10:01 AM
Senator Haggis.
N. O'Brain on December 6, 2007 at 11:41 AM
Reid is a talking cadaver. He has entered more outright lies into the Congressional record that any leader of the Senate in history. His dedication to causing our country to lose the Iraq war is very similar to his counterparts, many still in the Congress, in the 60s and 70s. Anti-American to the core.
volsense on December 6, 2007 at 12:18 PM
Is Reid the guy in the painting with the pitchfork? Or was that some other cranky old devil?
NellE on December 6, 2007 at 1:36 PM
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