Just when there appeared to be a little lull in the obnoxious rantings coming from politicians and pundits, along comes some really pathetic individuals.
Who could possibly be more pathetic than Sen. Arlen Spector (D or R--your choice) of Pennsylvania? Facing certain defeat in next year's Republican primary in his home state, Sen. Turncoat took the pathetic route. Instead of retiring after 30 years in the Senate, at age 79 with a host of health problems, he opted to declare himself a Democrat. This development was pathetically welcomed by both President Obama and Vice President Biden, who apparently found time while continually inserting his foot in his mouth to lobby Spector to make the change.
Why? Spector will (maybe) give the Democrats the 60th vote they need to prevent GOP filibusters. That is, if Al Franken finally is seated after numerous court challenges in the Minnesota race by former GOP Senator Norm Coleman. But not so fast. Spector stated that he wants Coleman to win so there will still be at least one Jewish Republican in the Senate. So much for the 60th vote and any party "loyalty". Spector, who is best remembered for his vicious baiting of Anita Hill during the 1991 Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, should not be embraced by Obama who already has a pathetic Jewish Senator in Joe Lieberman who mostly votes with the President after smearing him during the campaign. This is really disgusting.
But perhaps even worse we have the CNBC charmers such as Larry Kudlow and Jim Creamer who have likened Obama to Lenin and believe (or do they?) that we are in the throes of Soviet style socialism, etc. etc. Obama's "sin" of course is that he dared to "invade" the sacrosanct free market in order to save the country from a possible depression. Their solution would be just to stand by and let the financial system, auto industry, etc. fail. More than pathetic. Responsible dissent has disappeared and been replaced by demagoguery. It's sad that the only way that the two parties come together is when Arlen Spector looks in the mirror. Ugh!
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Speaking of ranting...
Apparently anti choice zealots have chosen to pick and choose their 'sanctity of human life' issues, as they protest Barack Obama's commencement speech at Notre Dame this weekend.
It seems the rank and file Catholics (I am an ex Catholic by the way) out there, in addition to a number of small minded Cardinals and Bishops, including Chicago's very own national embarrassment, Francis George, who are protesting our President's commencement speech at Notre Dame this weekend, conveniently forget about things like capital punishment and the tragedy in Iraq.
Where were the protests when Notre Dame awarded former President Bush an honorary degree when he served as President? Did these small minded folks forget that, under Bush as governor, the state of Texas was famously known as the number one capital punishment killing machine in the United States, even executing mentally retarded convicts? And how convenient to forget the Iraq bloodshed, started by the Bush administration. Was it appropriate for Notre Dame to award an honorary degree to a president who deliberately lied to the American public and manipulated data to justify a preemptive attack on Iraq that has cost the lives of well over 4,500 American and coalition forces, almost 200,000 innocent Iraqi citizens and destroyed the lives of millions more?
Can you say, "HYPOCRISY?"
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