Comments on: Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:48:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Bostonliberal http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-2/#comment-538148 Bostonliberal Fri, 05 May 2006 00:25:19 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-538148 #51...Once you have been bitten by Senator Specter, you don't believe him again. He has mande many promises and never followed through...I have been watching him off and on for a couple of years and each time he threatens or attempts to oversee what the president is doing, he backs down....he is one mean man. Like most, I have written to him and BEGGED him to remember that he swore on an oath to uphold the Constitution of the US and defend its principles...has he done it?? NO!! With every vote that may go against Bush he says he will go with the people, then someone from the White House uses their might and twists and twists his arms and lo and behold....he does as Bushie wants....screw the people and screw the laws. It is time to remove all these double talkers from congress and replace them with people who will uphold the truth....regardless of party. Too bad they are so hard to comeby. Once again, I doubt very much that this time he will go against his buddy!! #51…Once you have been bitten by Senator Specter, you don’t believe him again. He has mande many promises and never followed through…I have been watching him off and on for a couple of years and each time he threatens or attempts to oversee what the president is doing, he backs down….he is one mean man. Like most, I have written to him and BEGGED
him to remember that he swore on an oath to uphold the Constitution of the US and defend its principles…has he done it?? NO!! With every vote that may go against Bush he says he will go with the people, then someone from the White House uses their might and twists and twists his arms and lo and behold….he does as Bushie wants….screw the people and screw the laws. It is time to remove all these double talkers from congress and replace them with people who will uphold the truth….regardless of party. Too bad they are so hard to comeby. Once again, I doubt very much that this time he will go against his buddy!!

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-537917 JPark Thu, 04 May 2006 22:29:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-537917 #51 I will admire Specter as soon as he backs up his words with actions. I have been a fool before believing he actually had integrity. #51 I will admire Specter as soon as he backs up his words with actions. I have been a fool before believing he actually had integrity.

]]> By: chill http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-537662 chill Thu, 04 May 2006 20:49:37 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-537662 Specter is a good Senator who speaks his mind, no matter what the official GOP mantra is. He's not afraid of indepedence. That should be admired, not lambasted. Specter is a good Senator who speaks his mind, no matter what the official GOP mantra is. He’s not afraid of indepedence.
That should be admired, not lambasted.

]]> By: Station Agent http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-537056 Station Agent Thu, 04 May 2006 16:38:57 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-537056 <a href="http://icestationtango.blogspot.com/2006/05/impeachment-it-can-even-happen-to.html" rel="nofollow">Specter is pushing 3 NSA measures that will legalize it and retroactively provide cover for the WHite House</a>. Specter is the one who should be leading the charge on impeachment after how bad the GOP and Bush tried to push him out in 04. Specter is pushing 3 NSA measures that will legalize it and retroactively provide cover for the WHite House. Specter is the one who should be leading the charge on impeachment after how bad the GOP and Bush tried to push him out in 04.

]]> By: soDoSomeTHINg http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536963 soDoSomeTHINg Thu, 04 May 2006 15:56:48 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536963 actually ANVILHEAD is spot on. except for that "THANK GOD" part. actually ANVILHEAD is spot on.

except for that “THANK GOD” part.

]]> By: big papa http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536952 big papa Thu, 04 May 2006 15:47:07 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536952 <strong>"I'm so excited!" -June Pointer and the Pointer Sisters- ...oops too late...</strong> “I’m so excited!”

-June Pointer and the Pointer Sisters-

…oops too late…

]]> By: Bruce Gorton http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536860 Bruce Gorton Thu, 04 May 2006 14:46:22 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536860 JPark Look, the guy speaking against Bush shows that at least the Republicans in congress know that they are dismantling America's democratic system of checks and balances. Previously I just thought they were just bumbling imbeciles more interested in their bank accounts then their jobs, whose chief threat to the world would be as much accidental as inevitable. Evil in my book is a notch up on stupid. Seixon Link? JPark

Look, the guy speaking against Bush shows that at least the Republicans in congress know that they are dismantling America’s democratic system of checks and balances. Previously I just thought they were just bumbling imbeciles more interested in their bank accounts then their jobs, whose chief threat to the world would be as much accidental as inevitable. Evil in my book is a notch up on stupid.

Seixon

Link?

]]> By: walter66 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536831 walter66 Thu, 04 May 2006 14:25:46 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536831 Sexian, thanks for setting the record straight......... Sen. Mike DeWine...........are you tough on terrorism or are you being tough on Americanism? Sexian, thanks for setting the record straight………

Sen. Mike DeWine………..are you tough on terrorism or are you being tough on Americanism?

]]> By: Jack http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536822 Jack Thu, 04 May 2006 14:21:55 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536822 Actions speak louder than words. Watch what they do (actually do)(and finish), not what they say. Actions speak louder than words.

Watch what they do (actually do)(and finish), not what they say.

]]> By: Seixon http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536808 Seixon Thu, 04 May 2006 14:12:50 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536808 And the walk-back begins: <em>Correction: Because of an editing error, a Page One story yesterday on a possible Senate hearing on President Bush's claims that he can bypass certain laws incorrectly attributed the quote, ''How can we know whether the government will comply with the new laws that we passed?" to FBI director Robert Mueller. The quote was from Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin. Also, because of an editing error, the story misstated the number of bills in which Bush has challenged provisions. He has claimed the authority to bypass more than 750 statutes, which were provisions contained in about 125 bills.</em> LOL. What a joke. Sure, have a hearing. Try to get the facts straight in your news articles too, morons. And the walk-back begins:

Correction: Because of an editing error, a Page One story yesterday on a possible Senate hearing on President Bush’s claims that he can bypass certain laws incorrectly attributed the quote, ”How can we know whether the government will comply with the new laws that we passed?” to FBI director Robert Mueller. The quote was from Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin. Also, because of an editing error, the story misstated the number of bills in which Bush has challenged provisions. He has claimed the authority to bypass more than 750 statutes, which were provisions contained in about 125 bills.

LOL. What a joke. Sure, have a hearing. Try to get the facts straight in your news articles too, morons.

]]> By: walter66 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536787 walter66 Thu, 04 May 2006 14:02:07 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536787 oh............the message Sen. Mike DeWine is sending to the terrorists is "Please Mr. Terrorist, don't attack us, we will destroy America for you." oh…………the message Sen. Mike DeWine is sending to the terrorists is “Please Mr. Terrorist, don’t attack us, we will destroy America for you.”

]]> By: Wayne A. Schneider http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536741 Wayne A. Schneider Thu, 04 May 2006 13:40:43 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536741 #40 I don't know. The play on words just <i>sounded</i> good. Maybe it means that those who hate the fact that people like anvilhead are allowed to go free have a friend in us. Or in just me. Actually, that nonsense the president is always spouting about how the terrorists "hate us for our freedoms" is just that - nonsense. It doesn't really make sense to me, either. I know they have specific, socio-political reasons for their hatred of us, and "our freedoms" has never been one of them. #40 I don’t know. The play on words just sounded good.
Maybe it means that those who hate the fact that people like anvilhead are allowed to go free have a friend in us. Or in just me.

Actually, that nonsense the president is always spouting about how the terrorists “hate us for our freedoms” is just that – nonsense. It doesn’t really make sense to me, either. I know they have specific, socio-political reasons for their hatred of us, and “our freedoms” has never been one of them.

]]> By: walter66 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536720 walter66 Thu, 04 May 2006 13:26:10 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536720 good one Wayne........what does it mean? good one Wayne……..what does it mean?

]]> By: Marie http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536716 Marie Thu, 04 May 2006 13:24:37 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536716 <em>#25 katy</em> I went to DC in September for a peach march (Cindy Sheehan) - an enormous crowd, barely covered by the MSM, though. As if +100,000 strong is not newsworthy. Anyway, I won't be able to go again in May, although if I lived closer to DC and could get there by car or train on a one-day trip, I would be there. #25 katy
I went to DC in September for a peach march (Cindy Sheehan) – an enormous crowd, barely covered by the MSM, though. As if +100,000 strong is not newsworthy.
Anyway, I won’t be able to go again in May, although if I lived closer to DC and could get there by car or train on a one-day trip, I would be there.

]]> By: walter66 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536707 walter66 Thu, 04 May 2006 13:20:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536707 oh, "those" who hate us for our freedoms also love mike dewine oh, “those” who hate us for our freedoms also love mike dewine

]]> By: Wayne A. Schneider http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536704 Wayne A. Schneider Thu, 04 May 2006 13:20:41 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536704 <i>“those” who hate us for our freedoms have a friend in anvilhead Comment by walter66 — May 4, 2006 @ 9:16 am </i> And those who hate anvilhead for <i>his</i> freedom have a friend in us. :) “those” who hate us for our freedoms have a friend in anvilhead

Comment by walter66 — May 4, 2006 @ 9:16 am

And those who hate anvilhead for his freedom have a friend in us. :)

]]> By: Marie http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536702 Marie Thu, 04 May 2006 13:19:50 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536702 Believe it only when you see it. Believe it only when you see it.

]]> By: walter66 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536691 walter66 Thu, 04 May 2006 13:16:20 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536691 "those" who hate us for our freedoms have a friend in anvilhead “those” who hate us for our freedoms have a friend in anvilhead

]]> By: Pete Bogs http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536675 Pete Bogs Thu, 04 May 2006 13:00:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536675 Specter has been talking out of both sides of his mouth for a while - claiming shock at the White House's disregard for the law, and making lots of threats, but doing <em>very little</em>... Specter has been talking out of both sides of his mouth for a while – claiming shock at the White House’s disregard for the law, and making lots of threats, but doing very little…

]]> By: Wayne A. Schneider http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-536665 Wayne A. Schneider Thu, 04 May 2006 12:50:03 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/sen-arlen-specter-r-pa/#comment-536665 #31 There can be no other explanation (unless he really doesn't mean what he says.) :) #31 There can be no other explanation (unless he really doesn’t mean what he says.) :)

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