Gone, soon forgotten, mainly unmourned.
He really was completely dumfounded in 2009 when greeted with thousands of angry constituents who had begged him not to vote for Obama's stimulus press and health care bill.
He really assumed no one was paying attention, was shocked to find that he was mistaken, and was shuffled off to a friendless oblivion by primary voters in 2010.
Three cheers for the primary system, and the secret ballot.
Showing posts with label Arlen Specter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arlen Specter. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Pat Toomey Wins In Pennsylvania, Kirk Wins In Illinois!
Old Arlen Specter the Democrat/turned Republican/turned Democrat(to keep his chairmanship), defeated in the primary, will now see a conservative Republican visit his offices to measure for new furniture...
GRIN!!!!!!!
Again, for those reading from overseas, this is huge. Obama and the Dems pulled out all the stops for Sestak, and Pennsylvania has always been a Democrat stronghold. The unions owned the place.
And, sweetest of all...Mark Kirk just took Himself's old Senate seat in Illinois. The Chicago machine could not vote enough dead people to overcome the anger of all those people in all those small towns, rural counties, and the suburbs of Chicago who showed up in droves, eager to draw the electoral knife on TheWinnerOfTheNobelPeacePrize.
Boy, that meeting in Mumbai ought'ta go jest great, given Obama's credibility with his own citizens.
In his home state.
No worries, ya'll. It's still all Bush's fault...
GRIN!!!!!!!
Again, for those reading from overseas, this is huge. Obama and the Dems pulled out all the stops for Sestak, and Pennsylvania has always been a Democrat stronghold. The unions owned the place.
And, sweetest of all...Mark Kirk just took Himself's old Senate seat in Illinois. The Chicago machine could not vote enough dead people to overcome the anger of all those people in all those small towns, rural counties, and the suburbs of Chicago who showed up in droves, eager to draw the electoral knife on TheWinnerOfTheNobelPeacePrize.
Boy, that meeting in Mumbai ought'ta go jest great, given Obama's credibility with his own citizens.
In his home state.
No worries, ya'll. It's still all Bush's fault...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Arlen Specter Is Shown The Door In Pennsylvania, Rand Paul Kicks In The Door In Kentucky
The poster child of RINOism, Arlen (I don't give a fig about which party I'm in, just so long as I can stay in office!) Specter, went down in flames in the Democrat primary tonight.
OS caught his concession speech. The old gent truly looked shell-shocked. He rambled, almost incoherently. Not even the rooms full of people cursing him last summer at town hall meetings had managed to break through his ego, his vision of himself as an American Institution. Finally, tonight, it dawned on him: 'Gosh, everyone's really really pissed at me!'.
Rand Paul, on the other hand, kicked ass. He beat Grayson, the GOP establishment candidate, 60-40. Not even close.
Here's the raw video from his acceptance speech:
Of course, by tomorrow evening, the White House and their shills in Yew Nork will have it all explained away, assuring themselves and us that nothing is amiss, Arlen was just an old fool who needed to go, and Rand is just a TeaPartyNutJobFromKentucky (you know, where all those unwashed Kentucky people hang out...). No problem, no worries.
Of course, if we start tallying it up--Brown takes Massachusetts, Christie takes New Jersey, Stupak runs away, Tanner runs away...hell's bells--a bunch of Democrats have run away! Charlie Crist gets out of the GOP while he can, 'cuz he's going down in flames, Bennett is shown the door by the GOP in Utah...
The list is growing. Folks out here really really really are ticked-off, and they're tired of writing their Congressman, 'cuz he stopped listening a long time ago. Or, like the good Rep. Souder of Indiana, he was too busy nailing the office staff to pay attention.
Oh, by the way, in the Kentucky race (from the Washington Post):
With 99 percent of the vote counted in the Kentucky GOP primary for U.S. Senate ...
-Rand Paul outpaced Trey Grayson in every major region of the state, scoring his biggest win in the North, an area that includes the fast growing areas around Cincinnati and Louisville that have become reliably GOP. In that region, Paul won 65 percent of the vote, to Grayson's 32 percent.
-Paul won 109 counties; Grayson 11.
It'll be entertaining to watch ObamaBob explain this away tomorrow...there's always an explanation, more people to label as racists, AstroTurf, sexual perverts, rednecks, nutters, etc.
Chin-straps on, friends and neighbors.
OS caught his concession speech. The old gent truly looked shell-shocked. He rambled, almost incoherently. Not even the rooms full of people cursing him last summer at town hall meetings had managed to break through his ego, his vision of himself as an American Institution. Finally, tonight, it dawned on him: 'Gosh, everyone's really really pissed at me!'.
Rand Paul, on the other hand, kicked ass. He beat Grayson, the GOP establishment candidate, 60-40. Not even close.
Here's the raw video from his acceptance speech:
Of course, by tomorrow evening, the White House and their shills in Yew Nork will have it all explained away, assuring themselves and us that nothing is amiss, Arlen was just an old fool who needed to go, and Rand is just a TeaPartyNutJobFromKentucky (you know, where all those unwashed Kentucky people hang out...). No problem, no worries.
Of course, if we start tallying it up--Brown takes Massachusetts, Christie takes New Jersey, Stupak runs away, Tanner runs away...hell's bells--a bunch of Democrats have run away! Charlie Crist gets out of the GOP while he can, 'cuz he's going down in flames, Bennett is shown the door by the GOP in Utah...
The list is growing. Folks out here really really really are ticked-off, and they're tired of writing their Congressman, 'cuz he stopped listening a long time ago. Or, like the good Rep. Souder of Indiana, he was too busy nailing the office staff to pay attention.
Oh, by the way, in the Kentucky race (from the Washington Post):
With 99 percent of the vote counted in the Kentucky GOP primary for U.S. Senate ...
-Rand Paul outpaced Trey Grayson in every major region of the state, scoring his biggest win in the North, an area that includes the fast growing areas around Cincinnati and Louisville that have become reliably GOP. In that region, Paul won 65 percent of the vote, to Grayson's 32 percent.
-Paul won 109 counties; Grayson 11.
It'll be entertaining to watch ObamaBob explain this away tomorrow...there's always an explanation, more people to label as racists, AstroTurf, sexual perverts, rednecks, nutters, etc.
Chin-straps on, friends and neighbors.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
OldSouth's Cheerful Creative Vengeance Campaign: Two Links Lists Added
OK, we can moan and groan, or we can take some creative revenge--cheerful, concrete, and at a distance. It's the barbarians and anarchists among us who threaten violence, smash store windows, vandalize, set bombs off in public places. Anyone who thinks we ought to be spilling each other's blood over political beefs is someone to avoid. 'Nuff said?
On the right, Vote Early, Vote Often. If you really, really, really want to administer a smack-down to clowns like McCain, Arlen Specter, and the Chicago gang in the White House, toss ten or twenty bucks to the candidates running against them. And, in a couple of weeks, do it again. Lather, rinse, repeat. It gets easier every time you do it.
Nothing is so empowering as a whole boatload of people sending in modest contributions. It sends the message loud and clear to everyone involved.
On the bottom, Don't Just Sit There!. There are good people out there doing great things to lift the poor out of poverty, educate students, carry Christendom and civilization forward. They build the culture, and make life uncomfortable for the gangsters (in and out of power) who think it's cool to burn it to the ground. OS admits it's an arbitrary list, but what the hey. It's a good place to begin, fill in the blanks yourself.
Particularly dear to his heart these days is St. Mary's Church, in March, England. Located in the environs of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, it is one of the most beautiful parish churches in that country, and houses an active small-town congregation. Some worthless piece of **!!!**!!! deliberately set it ablaze, and it will take a lot of money to put it right, even though it is insured. OS has never been there, and may never get to visit. Each £10 donation is a personal act of revenge on the arsonist.
It's really a good feeling, hitting that 'Donate' button. It's not possible, legal, moral or wise to stand church arsonists and politicians like Arlen Specter against the wall and administer that longed-for bit of overdue justice. But to see the church rebuilt, or the disgraceful politician replaced with someone who has a brain and a conscience, that feels wonderful! Hell's bells, it's not even that expensive!
Creative, positive pushback.
Cold. From a distance. Cheerful,legal, proper, moral, appropriate, effective.
Vengeance.
On the right, Vote Early, Vote Often. If you really, really, really want to administer a smack-down to clowns like McCain, Arlen Specter, and the Chicago gang in the White House, toss ten or twenty bucks to the candidates running against them. And, in a couple of weeks, do it again. Lather, rinse, repeat. It gets easier every time you do it.
Nothing is so empowering as a whole boatload of people sending in modest contributions. It sends the message loud and clear to everyone involved.
On the bottom, Don't Just Sit There!. There are good people out there doing great things to lift the poor out of poverty, educate students, carry Christendom and civilization forward. They build the culture, and make life uncomfortable for the gangsters (in and out of power) who think it's cool to burn it to the ground. OS admits it's an arbitrary list, but what the hey. It's a good place to begin, fill in the blanks yourself.
Particularly dear to his heart these days is St. Mary's Church, in March, England. Located in the environs of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, it is one of the most beautiful parish churches in that country, and houses an active small-town congregation. Some worthless piece of **!!!**!!! deliberately set it ablaze, and it will take a lot of money to put it right, even though it is insured. OS has never been there, and may never get to visit. Each £10 donation is a personal act of revenge on the arsonist.
It's really a good feeling, hitting that 'Donate' button. It's not possible, legal, moral or wise to stand church arsonists and politicians like Arlen Specter against the wall and administer that longed-for bit of overdue justice. But to see the church rebuilt, or the disgraceful politician replaced with someone who has a brain and a conscience, that feels wonderful! Hell's bells, it's not even that expensive!
Creative, positive pushback.
Cold. From a distance. Cheerful,legal, proper, moral, appropriate, effective.
Vengeance.
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