Posted on 07/19/2010 2:52:26 PM PDT by jazusamo
It appears lame-duck Sen. Arlen Specter, sometime-Democrat from Pennsylvania, hasn't had enough of the Obama administration job-for-politics merry-go-round. Not one to go gentle into that good night, Mr. Specter is angling to be a special envoy to Syria. At the same time, he is abandoning his own standards in order to support the Supreme Court nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, all while giving the cold shoulder to Sept. 11 victim families even though those victims are trying to help his own legislation.
Mr. Specter's sellout adds new skulduggery to the increasingly troubled ethics of the Kagan nomination. It is a nomination that ought to be foundering because of Ms. Kagan's manipulation of medical information in order to keep partial-birth abortions legal and because she deliberately flouted the law to keep military recruiters away from Harvard Law School.
Even for a politician known for shape-shifting, Mr. Specter's latest metamorphosis is twisted. The senator famously opposed the nomination of Ms. Kagan to her current job of solicitor general, saying she didn't sufficiently answer Senate questions. Now that she wants a promotion, the senator again seemed utterly underwhelmed by her performance during confirmation hearings. In a column for USA Today July 15 about whether or not he would support her, he devoted the first seven paragraphs to complaints about her "stonewalling." Then, almost as an afterthought, he praised Ms. Kagan for favoring cameras in the Supreme Court chambers and for citing the late Justice Thurgood Marshall as her role model - hardly matters of great substance. Yet, on the basis of those two additions to the record, he wrote that "Kagan did just enough to win my vote."
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Ethics are prohibited, today, in our political system.
He’s working hard to secure his seat... in hell.
Like the other Kapos, living and dead.
When Shakespeare said,”First kill all the lawyers”, he should have added, “All the politicians too”. But that is about the same isn’t it?
Astards revenge!
He’s a sorry excuse for a Senator, and the current standard is none too high. Our founders are rolling over in their graves.
The Worst Senator of All Time.
Anyone care to challenge that?
I have come to hate incumbents, particulary incumbents of more than two terms in the US Senate.
By its very nature, incumbency breeds corruption.
Arlen Specter a member in good standing of the “ruling class”.
Snarlin wants to be the “peace mediator between Syria and Israel” !!!!
Bibi won’t agree to the likes of Arlen Spector.
There are a whole lot of slimes like this who I’m surprised haven’t been tarred and feathered at the very least.
So funny.
He couldn’t make peace between conjoined twins.
The gospel again by Razmataz
ROFL. Perfect way to put it.
Arlen is completely off-putting and so damn arrogant, he’s the worst choice for a peace mediator, and does he think the Syrian’s won’t know he’s Jewish, even though he wouldn’t think twice about selling-out Jews too?
He was stunned that he lost, that is how removed from reality these people are.
So the DemRats replace Specter with a guy who takes money from CAIR and has a CAIR operative on his staff.
So when you ask yourself who’s side are these folks on anyway, save your breath.
I so enjoyed his loss and loved the look on his face as he sat in the back seat of the limo.
I nominate Franken!
” The Worst Senator of All Time.
Anyone care to challenge that? “
Yes. Ted Kennedy beats him by a mile.
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