Laura Ingraham to Specter: Do you enjoy being wined and dined at the White House?
posted at 3:20 pm on February 9, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Via her producer, Tom Elliott. A cheap shot, but consider it rough justice for his help in pinching this $800 billion loaf. And for being uninformed: She’s quite right that Martin Feldstein may support a stimulus but emphatically doesn’t support this stimulus. Funny how that little postscript escaped Specter’s attention.
If you missed it in Headlines, here’s his op-ed in today’s WaPo that our commenters spent the morning merrily torching. See if you can find in it anything approaching a reasoned argument to vote for the bill. He’s got his bare assertions covered — four million jobs saved or created, etc etc — but there’s not a jot devoted to the long-term effect, and the best he can do by way of celebrating the spending cuts he was able to impose is to say that they’ll end up in the appropriations bill later. His bottom line: “Failure to act” would be irresponsible. Like I was saying.
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His failure to act is like the buy on the sinking ship…he acts by pushing people overboard so there is room on the lifeboat for him…failure to act would mean he might not get what he needs.
It isn’t the “failure to act”, it is accepting action that will fail…
right2bright on February 9, 2009 at 4:19 PM
When will this waste of breath leave us? I’m sick to death of him for years now – get the hell off my planet, Specter.
Midas on February 9, 2009 at 4:19 PM
MB4 on February 9, 2009 at 4:19 PM
“Created or saved” is the new metric for counting the success of Obama’s Great Leap Forward, but it one that would even make Mao blush with envy.
moxie_neanderthal on February 9, 2009 at 4:21 PM
That picture is priceless. You should have a caption contest for that one. The options would be endless.
bloggless on February 9, 2009 at 4:27 PM
what did he say at the end?
cryptojunkie on February 9, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Jobs are being lost because of Obama and slide into socialism. Once the Obama supporters understand these 3 basic facts then it will get real ugly.
1.) Obama’s talk of re-distribution worked so well that business took
that information and slashed employees and froze hiring.
2.) Obama is a Marxist – he hates capitalism.
3.) “Workers” will not see a dime of stimulus money. If you have been fired then get ready for a dismal Obama future.
izoneguy on February 9, 2009 at 4:33 PM
What on Earth is the matter with Pennsylvania voters giving Congress people such as Bob Casey Jr., Arlen Spector, John Murtha?
Hilts on February 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM
I’m still waiting for McCain to burn us again. Specter, McCain, Collins, etc, etc…Birds of a feather.
scottjenn on February 9, 2009 at 4:51 PM
PA got rid of Rick Santorum but kept Arlen Spector?!?!?
What the hell are they thinking?
RobCon on February 9, 2009 at 4:51 PM
I can only hope, seriously, misforturne finds him soon.
madmonkphotog on February 9, 2009 at 4:52 PM
I wish Laura had reminded Republican Party traitor Arlin Specter that “We the People” will face the music if he supports this Socialist/Marxist bogus bill.
I suppose now Specter will be voting for the “Fairness Doctrine” because his huge Maverick ego was bruised.
Laura certainly applied just the right amount of “rough justice”. He deserved every word of it.
God job, Laura. BRAVO!
sinsing on February 9, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Casey ran as a Conservative and Rick Santorum was personnally marked for attack by the media. Spector did nothing for supporting him . I think Spector was embarrassed by Santorum because of his Conservative convictions. I also think the relationship Spector had with Governor Casey must have helped.
hawkdriver on February 9, 2009 at 5:01 PM
If the final, final bill has no House votes and only three Senate votes, these three Senators should be removed from the party.
They are transparent phonies. If they vote against it now it will force a major re-write before going to conference. Then and only then can we hope to have a final bill that harms us less. Make no mistake, all we are talking about is damage control, as the prescribed cure is worse than the disease.
patrick neid on February 9, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Specter = useful idiot
Maxx on February 9, 2009 at 5:11 PM
What justice is it that in this world a nice girl like Holly Maddux winds up dead in a trunk and Ira Einhorn and his scumbag lawyer Arlen Spector (who allowed Einhorn to skip on a comically low bail) do not?
TexasJew on February 9, 2009 at 5:13 PM
I love the cheap shot; this POS deserves worse.
She’s on the mark with her criticism and and calling him out on his lie about Feldstein and his inability to name a single economist who likes this POS bill.
Jaibones on February 9, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Just listened to him on Hannity. Sounds weak. Sounds like there’s no turning him back from his decision.
hawkdriver on February 9, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Put me down for $1200 to anyone who runs against this dope.
flyoverland on February 9, 2009 at 5:25 PM
boy, i take it my email wasn’t the only one that this jellyfish got this weekend. a little attempt at damage control, Spec?
how sad for this country. how sad for my children.
wonder what the maine dames got for their support? a little steak on the oval office rug?
sandlin71 on February 9, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Fixed it for you!
grapeknutz on February 9, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Today’s NRO “The Corner” links to an NYT article from the 2004 election when Specter was closely challenged by Toomey. The article claimed that Specter is a friend of George Soros. Connect the dots…
onlineanalyst on February 9, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Strong questions are not a cheap shot. It is so rare these idiots subject themselves to questioning and they are also so incompetent they should be ready for some jibes. I mean hell, they are only running the country in the ground, I guess we need to be all polite about it.
echosyst on February 9, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Every time I see or hear Specter I think of the verse regarding
“Those Quislings who sold out the patriot game”.
He’s the reason we don’t have Bourke on the SCOTUS and wound up with (GAG) Kennedy instead, too. Why in the HELL does the RNSCC keep supporting him?
I’ve mailed Michael Steele voicing my devout hope that the Republican party will not support any of these 3 sellouts in future elections.
quikstrike98 on February 9, 2009 at 6:04 PM
I just sent my email, too. I doubt he cares, but he just lost another PA voter.
vermillionsky on February 9, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Big DNC money flooded PA to support Casey, Jr., who himself is an empty suit, rubber-stamp man. That same money built a smear campaign against Santorum. It didn’t help Santorum that he home-schooled his children in Virginia, taking funds from his PA school district to underwrite that education. He maintained and paid taxes on his PA home, but the western PA news outlets had a heyday at Santorum’s expense.
The supposed rationale behind the Bush/Santorum support for Specter (even though he never exhibited reciprocal support) was that the party should support its incumbents. And, with Specter having a senior position on the Judiciary Committee, Bush was relying on Specter to support his nominees for the Supreme Court.
Several years ago, i learned from some Philadelphians in the more affluent suburbs (and this couple was Democrat) that Specter himself was a Democrat, persuaded to switch parties in order to provide a contest for the senatorial seat.
Specter’s judicial sympathies lie with the superiority of the World Court in Belgium. He is not a country-first politico.
Specter is despised in western PA for the hatchet job he had done on Bork.
onlineanalyst on February 9, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Eeeeeeeewwwwwww!
Laura in Maryland on February 9, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Disappointed in Laura allowing Spectre to flirt with her at the end. What a jerk the guy is, eh?
I know judges like this guy. Thinks his power makes him immune.
Time for the Samuel Colt solution – The Colt made all men truly equal.
klickink.wordpress.com on February 9, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Senator Specter, when you can do no good at least do no harm.
Dr Evil on February 9, 2009 at 7:02 PM
WTF?
lowandslow on February 9, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Go lie down by your dish.
cjs1943 on February 9, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Laura rocks!
beachgirlusa on February 9, 2009 at 7:19 PM
I just HAVE to write something on this thread!
Wine_N_Dine on February 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Why do people in this man;s state keep voting for him?
Why do people in South carolina keep voting for Lindsay Graham?
I will tell you, my two senators, Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn went turncoat on the bank bail out, and just as I promised, I will never vote for either of them anymore, no matter who runs against them. Further, when Ms. Baily-Hutchison goes to run for governor, I am going to volunteer to work for her opposition, just as I promised her when she went turncoat on the immigration bill.
paulsur on February 9, 2009 at 8:14 PM
BobAnthony on February 9, 2009 at 8:28 PM
BobAnthony on February 9, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Shame on you for such a negative wish. God, this blog has attracted some horrible human beings.
AprilOrit on February 9, 2009 at 11:36 PM
This is like saying: my weight is going up at crisis levels so I support eating more cake and ice cream because I can’t afford to not take action. This agrument that we must do something, anything, even if it’s the wrong thing because inaction is unacceptable has got to be the lamest argument ever.
Dollayo on February 10, 2009 at 12:53 AM
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