David Corn

"Kinda hard to be a Republican now?"

HA!

Specter To Switch Parties

Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and announced today that he will run in 2010 as a Democrat, according to a statement he released this morning.

Specter's decision would give Democrats a 60 seat filibuster proof majority in the Senate assuming Democrat Al Franken is eventually sworn in as the next Senator from Minnesota. (Former Sen. Norm Coleman is appealing Franken's victory in the state Supreme Court.)

"I have decided to run for re-election in 2010 in the Democratic primary," said Specter in a statement. "I am ready, willing and anxious to take on all comers and have my candidacy for re-election determined in a general election."

He added: "Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right. Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats. I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans."

http://tinyurl.com/cpcao8

Cafferty lets Cheney and Bushco. have it with both barrels. A sample:

Here we are 100 days into the new administration of Barack Obama, and Darth Vader is still wandering around grumbling about why the new administration is all wrong.

Nobody is interested anymore, Mr. Vice President. You and your gaggle of miscreants had your shot, and we are in the toilet because of it. Don't you get it?

http://tinyurl.com/d9rm6e

David,

I live in the mid-hudson valley area of NY and Gillebrand is now my senator. I will be seeing her at a luncheon on Saturday and will hopefully get to talk to her about an issue that is very important to me, the long-term care delivery system for the severly mentally ill. I'll let you know my impressions of her.

She co-sponsored Jim Webb's bill to reform the prison system, which calls for the removal of the drug addicts and mentally ill from prinson and into treatment. I urge all of you to support these efforts. But we also need to make sure the infrastructure for care is built for these individuals.

As you may know, my twin brother Paul died a year ago on May 1. He lived in the state mental hospital system before being pushed out, and then bounced from group home back to the county hospital or local hospital psych wards and then back into another group home - and the cycle continued like that until he was finally phsyically ill enough to qualify to live in a nursing home. He had emphysema and had a few back to back bouts of pnemonia.

The average age at the nursing home was probably 80 and my brother was 47 at the time. But he was well taken care of and the staff loved him. They nicknamed him "The Governor" because he always said hello to everyone and shook their hands. Shortly after we were told he could stay there indefinately, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and died 10 months later.

Pataki was Governor of NY when Paul was moved out of the state hospital in Poughkeepsie. We recently found out that the plans were to create smaller group homes modeled after the ones for the mentally retarded. But no one wanted them in their neighborhood and the plans were eventually forgotten.

Paul was very smart, but he had no insight into how to take care of himself. He never had a day without some sort of delusion. He though he made millions in the movies and often promised us his movie money for taking such good care of him when he was sick. He thought babies came out of where his teeth were pulled. Yet the goal when he was moved out was for him to live on his own, eventually. It never happened and the care he received in the groups homes were spotty at best.

There are a lot of people out there like Paul. Paul was one of the lucky ones, if you could call him that. He was never arrested and he was never homeless. He had family that tried their best to advocate on his behalf. We too were institutionalized from the 22 years he was in the state hospitals. We thought he was going to be taken care of.

I hold Pataki partially responsible for the decline in Paul's care. I would never vote for him.

Flan,

Still sending sympathies for you and yours.

Care for the disabled and infirmed has been very bad for way too long.

"I'll let you know my impressions of her."

I hope for good impressions. Will love to hear what you think of her.

Thanks Capt.

Can't wait to hear your reaction to Spector switching parties

Specter: "Now I Can Say It: What a Bunch of F*cking A**holes!"

http://tinyurl.com/ckv6mw

(satire Andy Borowitz)

Spector making 60 (even with Franken) is going to be meaningless or moot.

Geting all the D's to vote as a block is like herding cats.

Will the Majority whip be able to get them all in line?

Is it more or less likely Lieberman and other DINO's and DLC types are going to change the way they vote. Will they used the idea of 60 as a reason to obstruct?

Only time will tell.

I mean - I do welcome any vote with the progressive agenda but the 60 number is more psychological than substantial unless they all vote as a block.

Spector may or may not survive the move. If he doesn't vote with EFCA he will have a challenger from the left. That might be his undoing.

It's official: Barack Obama is the second most reviled newbie president of the last forty years. A gallup survey today published in the Washington Times shows Obama to have an approval rating of just 56 per cent. The only president to have performed worse than that at the end of his first 100 days in office was Bill Clinton - and only then because it happened to coincide with the spectacular mishandling of the Waco siege, which might reasonably be laid at the door of ATF and FBI incompetence rather than presidential negligence.

Obama's low approval ratings, however, are all of his own making. He campaigned as a healing moderate who would take the US beyond partisan politics and restore the economy; instead he has terrified all those Americans who rightly abhor the idea of adopting European socialist, with the most sweeping advance of the progressive agenda and growth in the power of the state since the days of FDR's New Deal.

Spector changed parties because he knows that voting for Obamas porkulus bill toasted him. I guess the tea baggers won one!

He's too much of a coward, like most progressives, to fight for what he stands for. Getting re-elected is his only concern.

On that note, he is a perfect Obama minion worshiping at the alter of the almighty.

Generic Congressional Ballot
Republicans Top Democrats on Generic Congressional Ballot

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

For just the second time in more than five years of daily or weekly tracking, Republicans now lead Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 41% would vote for their district’s Republican candidate while 38% would choose the Democrat. Thirty-one percent (31%) of conservative Democrats said they would vote for their district’s Republican candidate.

Overall, the GOP gained two points this week, while the Democrats lost a point in support. Still, it’s important to note that the GOP’s improved position comes primarily from falling Democratic support. Democrats are currently at their lowest level of support in the past year while Republicans are at the high water mark.

Obama's signature campaign slogan, Yes We Can, has been replicated by the Iranian president in a promotional video issued for Iran's presidential poll on 12 June, when Ahmadinejad is seeking reelection.

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Obamas BFF

Oh, dear. I want to laugh; but I just feel so freekin' bad for all the lonely teabaggers on the right. As Big Dawg was wont to say, I feel your pain. I do. Really.

You started this Congressional session in a huuuuuuuge political shithole. You got stomped on in 2006. You got walloped in 2008. It got worse as the final counts came in and the damage became more evident. After the recount a genuine Liberal Psycho in Minnesota took down Foamin' Norman Coleman. Murphy took down DiscoTed in a Flaming Red district in NY. And now this horror of horrors. One of the senior members of the RepubliConservative Caucus in the Senate switches sides.

This is just too dang funny for words. I just can't help but laugh cause it couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch of douchebags.

Freddy. Seriously. A victory for Teabaggers? Really?!

From a front page article on DailyKos:

"Mr. "Axis of Evil" David Frum, former Bush speechwriter and critic of the GOP's RINO hunting strategy:

" With Arlen Specter’s defection, all that stands between the Democrats and a 60-seat Senate majority are Norman Coleman’s lawyers. I wish them every success – but they have not exactly been on a winning streak to date.

" Which means that Democrats won’t need to resort to unorthodox tactics to push, say, their healthcare bill through Congress. They’ll have the votes.

" If the Democrats do succeed in pushing through national health insurance, they really should set aside a little extra money to erect a statue to Pat Toomey. They couldn’t have done it without him!"
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NRO's Ramesh Ponnuru:

"The NRCC: "Good Riddance" to Specter [Ramesh Ponnuru]

"That's what the GOP House campaign committee is saying in its press release. I guess it will be truly happy when Snowe and Collins leave too."
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Yay, Teabaggers. Who's next Snowe or Collins?

Fredo, The whole thing with that idiot from Iran? Give it up.

Nobody gives a shit.

Seriously. Except for you and the entire RepubliConservative Geek Squad, nobody cares what that Iranian Asshat says or does.

http://tinyurl.com/ddwdmf

As for that Washington Times article that says that Gallup has President Obama with low approval numbers . . . Go straight to Gallup and average up the numbers yourself. There's no way that Obama's at 56%. His approval numbers have consistently been in the mid-60s. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt (Capt., what was that about linking a Bushbot to info?) when it comes to your Mathematics SKiLLz. If you can get an average in the 50s from this, you truly have a beautiful mind (the 3 lowest datapoints are 59s):
http://tinyurl.com/cy4vv9

You've been had, hoodwinked by the Moonie Times. So sad for you.

And the whole Hugo Chavez thing:
1) Let
2) It
3) Go

The whole handshake and a smile photo-op cuts both ways:
http://tinyurl.com/c2j6f5

I know you want to make the case for your side of the political divide. There just has to be a more honest way to do it. Until the Right figures out how to regain its credibility after the last 8 years of shame, you will remain a laughingstock in a parlor of fools in the political wilderness, powerless, leaderless, rudderless, useless to the political process in America.

Get Used To It. That shit taco that you're eating right now isn't gonna taste any better tomorrow or any time soon. You may want to stock up on picante sauce to mask the flavor of impotence and irrelevance.

Here. Maybe this will cheer you up:

"We are very excited to have President Barack Obama on the show tonight. People think it's amazing that the President would take the time to leave Washington, DC, and fly 3,000 miles to come to California. But that happens to a lot of guys when their mother-in-law moves in with them."
--Jay Leno

"No wonder Obama has gray hair. That was the big story in the paper yesterday, Obama has gray hair. Wow, now his hair isn't black enough."
--Bill Maher

"President Obama got some good news today. It seems so many of his cabinet appointees have been forced to pay their back taxes, he now gets a finder's fee from the IRS."
--Jay Leno

"Here's some good news. Barack Obama announced he's bringing home troops from Iraq. That's right. Unfortunately, he couldn't get them direct flights home. They have a two-year layover in Afghanistan."
--Jimmy Fallon

"During his trip to Ottawa, Canada, President Obama said he was too embarrassed to admit to the Canadians that he'd never actually seen a hockey game. To which the Canadians said, "Oh, don't worry, we've never seen a black guy."
--Jay Leno

"I saw an article last week that said, 'Is Obama's Presidency already a failure?' ... I think everybody should just calm down. Give Obama four years. See what he can do. Then if he's a miserable failure, we'll do what we did with George W. Bush and elect him to a second term."
--Craig Ferguson

"How about President Barack Obama's first primetime press conference last night? He was cogent, eloquent, and in complete command of the issues. I'm thinking to myself, what the hell am I supposed to do with that?"
--David Letterman

"President Obama has asked the Senate to cut $50 billion from the economic stimulus plan. Yeah, Obama says the government will no longer need the $50 billion once everyone in his Cabinet pays their back taxes."
--Conan O'Brien

One more for the GOP that somehow keeps shooting itself in the ass with a blowdart.

Rick Sanchez openly mocking the spin of RepubliConservative De Mint's Batshit loonacy:

http://tinyurl.com/c5cqco

Ya' gotta laugh.

Rick Sanchez?

ROFL!

GREAT clip - and lots of very funny stuff above!

Thanks

I fully agree that all sane elected officials should leave the GOP behind in the dust where the GOP belongs.

Soon the only GOPers around will be flat earthers & evolution deniers.

Conservatism in this country is peopled by the ignorant, arrogant and proud of it crowd.

"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."

~ Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)

Spectorgoes from right to left? What does it matter? It's all meaningless swinging around the maypole of AIPAC.

Listening to some of the GOP saying Spector leaving is a good thing made me think of the title and lyrics:

Lunatic Fringe
from the Red Rider LP "As Far As Siam"

Lunatic fringe
I know you're out there
You're in hiding
And you hold your meetings
We can hear you coming
We know what you're after
We're wise to you this time
We won't let you kill the laughter.

Lunatic fringe
In the twilight's last gleaming
This is open season
But you won't get too far
We know you've got to blame someone
For your own confusion
But we're on guard this time
Against your final solution

We can hear you coming
(We can hear you coming)
No you're not going to win this time
We can hear the footsteps
(We can hear the footsteps)
Way out along the walkway
Lunatic fringe
We know you're out there
But in these new dark ages
There will still be light

An eye for an eye;
Well before you go under...
Can you feel the resistance?
Can you feel the thunder?

Oh my, Obamas recession is getting worse by the day.

How many jobs has Obama created? In my state, Obamas stimulus has created a whopping 16 jobs and at 10% unemployment it should only take about twenty years to dig his way out of this shit hole.

lololo ~

Economy shrinks at worse-than-expected pace
Economy shrinks at worse-than-expected 6.1 percent pace in 1st quarter

Jeannine Aversa, AP Economics Writer
On Wednesday April 29, 2009, 11:20 am EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy shrank at a worse-than-expected 6.1 percent pace at the start of this year as sharp cutbacks by businesses and the biggest drop in U.S. exports in 40 years overwhelmed a rebound in consumer spending.

Maybe Larry Summers should nap at home instead of Obamas budget meetings.

Obama lied and the economy died!

Clint you're just jealous that Obamas BFF is Ahmadinejad and not some lefty troll that posts lame jokes.

I mean come on, if Obama wanted to read the funny papers he would consult his telepromter!

Rick Sanchez openly mocking the spin of RepubliConservative De Mint's Batshit loonacy:

__________

It figures you would quote this idiot:

February 12, 1991, Tuesday
TEST: SANCHEZ DROVE DRUNK

BYLINE: BY DON VAN NATTA JR

Blood tests reveal that WSVN-Channel 7 television news anchor Rick Sanchez's blood level exceeded Florida intoxication levels when his car struck and critically injured Jeffrey Smuzinick in mid-December 1990; Sanchez insists test's results are mistaken; Smuzinick remains in coma; photo (M)

Yay, Teabaggers. Who's next Snowe or Collins?

Add McCain- you tax and spend lefties can have them all.

Go straight to Gallup and average up the numbers yourself. There's no way that Obama's at 56%.
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Pretty sad when you have to spin a poll by a lefty liberal polling firm like Gallup!

lololo

You may want to stock up on picante sauce to mask the flavor of impotence and irrelevance.

__________

No thanks! We have other ways of stocking up thanks to your Messiah!

Barack Obama Wins "Gun Salesman of the Year" Award

Barack Obama wins another prestigious honor...
Due to unprecedented demand in firearms since the November election, Barack Obama was awarded the “Gun Salesman of the Year” by Outdoor Wire.

Congratulations!!!!!!!

And the whole Hugo Chavez thing:

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Really? You want to spin that? I mean come on that was just embarrassing~~~