Comments on: Specter: A “sizable” number of Senate Republicans secretly support the stimulus

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Collins: Other Republicans told me they wished they could have voted for the stimulus

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:05:58 +0000

[...] ahead to 1:45. Specter said the same thing this weekend and was met with utter incredulity by our commenters. I’m skeptical too, but not [...]

By: phelps

phelps — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:31:22 +0000

My guess is for the Magical Congressional Triceratops that Specter goes on adventures with on Hello Kitty Island.

By: Geministorm

Geministorm — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:10:25 +0000

Mel Martinez, I’d bet on it.

Allah, I don’t think you’re taking into account the sliminess factor of politicians. Specter could easily say that he (Martinez) “said” he was up for primary, but that could have occurred in another conversation or might have just been common knowledge, something to give weight to anything Specter did (ex. “That Senator was too afraid to vote on the Spendulus Bill, but I’m not and I’m up for re-election in 2010 too! See how brave I am?”).

Exit question: Can I secede from the Republic?

By: gryphon202

gryphon202 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:16:47 +0000

I’m stumped. Any guesses? Johnny Isakson? Richard Burr?

Now this is something I really and truly don’t care about. If I had my way, every incumbent congressman would be put on the political chopping block the next time they’re up for re-election, so they’d know what it’s like to live in the private sector again.

Down with career politicians!

By: jcila

jcila — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:27:46 +0000

On this one i dont doubt it..

This is why the republicans got their asses handed to them,..

They didnt do their JOB…
They sat there and just watched as madoll and fould and these other creeps RAPED WALL STREET stealing americans money in the trillions ….

SO thi sis why the republicans will not return to power..
not even in 4 years..

they didnt have the BALLS to say NO to obama and the porculus bill…

I will NOT vote for any republican again..

Our entire family is now sitting out the voting process..

because both sides are corrupt

our next votes will come during the
NEW Revolutionary WAR II

By: SeniorD

SeniorD — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:46:37 +0000

Arelen Specter’s ‘colleagues’ are the same ones John Kerry spoke to.

Proof positive the House of Lords lives in a fantasy world.

By: Keemo

Keemo — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:02:01 +0000

Hey Specter, I have never been arrested for the things floating around in my brain; it’s all about the “action” fool.

By: angryed

angryed — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:05:40 +0000

angryed on February 14, 2009 at 3:57 PM

That Isakson amendment was actually a good one that could help turn the housing market around.

goat on February 14, 2009 at 4:12 PM

No, it was a bad amendment. What needs to turn the housing market around is lower prices. Lower prices = more affordability. More affordability = more people buying.

Why is this simple concept of supply and demand so hard to understand?

Why is this any different than Obama promising to pay people’s mortgages? Isakson gives you $15K as a “tax credit”. Obama gives you $15K via 15 $1000 mortgage payments. Both are bad ideas that need to stop.

By: eaglewingz08

eaglewingz08 — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:50:55 +0000

Speaking of traitors, NY Post Page 6 has the following on ubertraitor Jane Fonda:
AN old skeleton has emerged from Jane Fonda’s closet to remind us of her traitorous embrace of the North Vietnamese, which got her dubbed “Hanoi Jane.” Docudrama Films is re leasing on DVD a long-suppressed documentary called “FTA,” a k a “[Bleep] the Army,” which chronicles the anti-war shows Fonda staged in front of GIs. The flick opened in theaters in 1972 the same week she flew to Hanoi and encouraged the Vietnamese com munists to fight “American impe rialists.” It was yanked days later and withdrawn from circulation, and the late director Francine Parker blamed pressure from the Nixon White House.

By: leetpriest

leetpriest — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:47:08 +0000

Jim Bunning shouldn’t even be close to being suspect. In fact, I’m actually offended that you would even mention Bunning being anywhere close to the likeness of betrayal of Specter.

Perhaps before mentioning a name you should look up the voting record, Allah. Bunning’s been on the right side of every single vote for quite a while.

By: peacenprosperity

peacenprosperity — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:32:02 +0000

Or specter is a lying sack. That’s the choice I’d bet money on. The guy flat out said to Megyn Kelly that he made a promise to harry reid and that was more important then his duty to his constituents and the American people. The republican party better not give 1 penny to this creep to get reelected. He should be treated like an independent and not receive any resources from the people he has stabbed in the back.

By: Commentary » Blog Archive » Flotsam and Jetsam

Commentary » Blog Archive » Flotsam and Jetsam — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:11:47 +0000

[...] Specter has secret Senate admirers. Really? I doubt it. If they thought Specter was so brave they could have voted for the [...]

By: tgillian

tgillian — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:00:41 +0000

Voinovich of Ohio was waiting in the wings.

By: Done That

Done That — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:53:33 +0000

So the sell out story line is going to be “I’m the brave Senator with the courage of my convictions?”
Just watch the SEIU TV ads they are now running asking people to call Specter and thank him for his vote.

By: Don Carne

Don Carne — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:03:17 +0000

I’m stumped. Any guesses? Johnny Isakson? Richard Burr?
How about Specter is a lying sack o’ sh*t.

By: stevelockridge

stevelockridge — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:29:47 +0000

a sizable number of Americans secretly support the idea of a revolution

LOL. Count me in publicly. Arlen Specter is either lying, senile, or both.

By: BHO Jonestown

BHO Jonestown — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:58:59 +0000

Spectard must be sharing an IV w/ Teddy “We’ll drive off that bridge when we come to it” Kennedy.

By: bains

bains — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:47:37 +0000

Spectre was standing in a cloak room?

I’ll bet it had two mirrors on opposite walls, and he could see all those strangely similar-looking faces congratulating him on his courage. And then Susan Collins walked in…

By: dthorny

dthorny — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:15:11 +0000

3 – me, myself and I. Sphincter is a laughingstock along with Reid, Bela Pelosi, Dodd, Frank and all the rest. How can they believe what they are doing is right?

Right is wrong and wrong is right? The bible predicted this very thing a thousand years ago.

By: Specter: A “sizable” number of Senate Republicans secretly support the stimulus — But As For Me

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:14:20 +0000

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By: JeffinOrlando

JeffinOrlando — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:38:32 +0000

“When I came back to the cloak room after coming to the agreement a week ago today,” said Specter, “one of my colleagues said, ‘Arlen, I’m proud of you.’

Hey Specter! Schumer, Dodd, Durbin, Kerry, Leahy, Levin, Menendez, Nelson, Reed, and Reid should be proud of you now that you came out of the closet. You were in the cloak room for the Dems where you belong, not the republican cloak room.
Idiot.

By: davo

davo — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:14:50 +0000

Specter was asked, How many of your colleagues?

“I think a sizable number,” he said. “I think a good part of the caucus agrees with the person I quoted, but I wouldn’t want to begin to speculate on numbers.”

Would it be three senator?

By: duff65

duff65 — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:12:52 +0000

Specter is just trying to justify the unjustifiable. If there were republicans secretly wanting the bill to pass you can bet there were more democrats hoping it would go away. That the dems could pass this without a single “no” vote from a democratic senator is hard to believe.

By: austinnelly

austinnelly — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:32:19 +0000

I don’t find it that hard to believe that there are other Senators in the GOP that secretly support it. I find it hard to believe that there were only 3. I lost $50 bucks to a buddy over this. I figured Backdoor John McCain and Lindsay Grahamnesty would be at the front of the GOP support for this. Then I realized why they weren’t..no illegal alien bailout. There will be plenty of other opportunities for our party to screw us over. Give Specter some credit; at least he stood up. The rest of them are just biding their time.
Four years from now we won’t remember this and we’ll nominate Specter for the Presidency because he’s a maverick and he can reach across the aisle. What’s our saying in the GOP? ‘We don’t throw away our garbage. We eat it.’ Specter 2012.

By: Herb

Herb — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:28:10 +0000

Arlen is not only a traitor he is making the Republicnas look like cowards. With friends like this……