Conservative Activists Descend on Arlen Specter's Office to Protest Stimulus Support - Video 2/9/09

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | February 9, 2009 | BrianinMO

[Federalist Patriot]

Here is video of Conservative Activists going to the office of Sen. Arlen Specter to deliver a message in opposition to his support for the Obama Stimulus Plan. The activists included Free Republic's Jim Robinson. . . . . . . (Watch Video)

[aumrl]

I’ve been calling his Allentown office for three days.
His mailbox is full, there’s no answer, or “we’re on the other line.”

[Tzimisce]

John Murtha called his own voters “rednecks” and “racists”.

Despite this, he got re-elected.

I doubt Specter cares what anyone thinks....

[Brad’s Gramma]

WHOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!

Thanks for this...thanks to all who went!!!

Someone, PLEASE upload this to another site before YouTube decides to take it down...

[Wolfstar]

It’s all well and good that Americans exercise their Constitutional rights to petition the government. However, the sad thing about the action taken by Jim and those other folks is that they are not from Pennsylvania. Specter will ignore anything they have to say because they are not his constituents.

[Marie]

Thank you for doing this, guys. Yes. You speak for me.

[marlon]

He’d ignore them if they were from PA too! I admire you folks for the fight, unfortunately 52% of the people now want to be taken care of by Big Daddy and reversing Socialism is going to take a long, long time. With the open borders, the dumbing down of our schools and the onslaught and decimation of our culture that has taken place for 40+ years I don’t think we will ever see our country back again in several generations, if ever.

[Jenny217]

I am his constituent and he doesn’t give a rat’s you know what, about what I think either. I’ve called all of his offices, faxed and sent email for the last 10 days. Casey’s office too. We have no representation here is PA. I can’t do all the voting. Next time I’ll try harder.

[Fred]

Priceless, Absolutely Priceless. Patience y’all, the dear Lord always rewards perseverance.

[celtic gal]

Good for these folks who decended on this spineless senstors office.
Did you hear him on Hannity today? Hannity took it too him and it was good!

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I’ve been calling his Allentown office for three days.

I called specter's Allentown office and told the woman who answered that I wanted him to vote NO. He didn't listen...

[Mogwai]

Specter ignores Pennsylvania conservatives, too. That is, when he’s not attacking us.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I am his constituent and he doesn’t give a rat’s you know what, about what I think either. I’ve called all of his offices, faxed and sent email for the last 10 days. Casey’s office too. We have no representation here is PA.

I live in Eastern PA--------Northampton County, surrounded by liberal colleges. Specter marches to his own tune. If he changes his mind because of phone calls, it would actually be a miracle...

[celtic gal]

I don’t know about that..keep in mind that donations for these political campaigns now come in from all over th country. So it is just possible that donations will come in for the Republican who challenges him.

[yazoo]

Very cool. They should have claimed to be from Code Pink or the Gay Alliance so they could get airtime on the MSM.

[malkee]

After emailing Specter, I got this in response:

In Case You Missed It: Why I Support the Stimulus

I want to share with you an op-ed that I wrote for today's Washington Post.

Additionally, you can watch a short interview I did on Thursday, February 6th on PBS's Newshour with Jim Lehrer concerning the pending stimulus package by clicking here.

Why I Support the Stimulus By Arlen Specter

I am supporting the economic stimulus package for one simple reason: The country cannot afford not to take action.

The unemployment figures announced Friday, the latest earnings reports and the continuing crisis in banking make it clear that failure to act will leave the United States facing a far deeper crisis in three or six months. By then the cost of action will be much greater -- or it may be too late.

Wave after wave of bad economic news has created its own psychology of fear and lowered expectations. As in the old Movietone News, the eyes and ears of the world are upon the United States. Failure to act would be devastating not just for Wall Street and Main Street but for much of the rest of the world, which is looking to our country for leadership in this crisis.

The legislation known as the "moderates" bill, hammered out over two days by Sens. Susan Collins, Ben Nelson, Joe Lieberman and myself, preserves the job-creating and tax relief goals of President Obama's stimulus plan while cutting less-essential provisions -- many of them worthy in themselves -- that are better left to the regular appropriations process.

Our $780 billion bill would save or create up to 4 million jobs, helping to offset the loss of 3.6 million jobs since December 2007. The bill cuts some $110 billion from the $890 billion Senate version, which would actually be $940 billion if floor amendments for tax credits on home and car purchases and money for the National Institutes of Health are retained.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the proposed cuts "do violence to what we are trying to do for the future," especially on education. Her objections are a warning to conservatives that more cuts would be unlikely to win House approval. They are also an admission of the high price that moderates have been able to extract for their support of stimulus legislation.

If a stimulus bill doesn't pass, there won't be any money for Title I education programs. The moderates' bill provides marginally less money for Title I than the House and Senate bills. But while it's less than supporters want, this proverbial half a loaf beats no loaf by a mile.

In health funding, both the House and Senate bills contain billions of dollars for wellness and prevention programs, including for smoking cessation, prenatal screening and counseling, education, and immunization. The moderates' bill, regrettably but necessarily, cancels this funding on the grounds that such programs are better left to the regular appropriations process.

"In politics," John Kennedy used to say, "nobody gets everything, nobody gets nothing and everybody gets something." My colleagues and I have tried to balance the concerns of both left and right with the need to act quickly for the sake of our country. The moderates' compromise, which faces a cloture vote today, is the only bill with a reasonable chance of passage in the Senate.

The writer is a Republican senator from Pennsylvania.