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Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat
Akido37 was one of many readers letting us know that US Sen. Arlen Specter has changed parties to become a Democrat. This gives the Democrats 59 seats in the Senate, and 60 if and when Al Franken gets seated from Minnesota. However, Specter said in his announcement that he will not be an automatic 60th vote for breaking Republican filibusters. While the senator's move seems to have surprised many Republicans, it is understandable to moderate Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, who said, "You haven't certainly heard warm encouraging words of how they [Republicans] view moderates. Either you are with us or against us." Specter noted that in his home state of Pennsylvania, 200,000 formerly Republican voters switched party allegiance last year.
Oh wait, you aren't joking, you sick nutcase. You actually WANT America to fail. You would rather we are all plunged into poverty and chaos than admit your ideology is broken.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
The correct term is universal health bureaucracy, there is no care involved.
Si vis pacem, para bellum! For evil to succeed good men need only do nothing!
Prepare for some extremely Democratic legislation. (In the party sense, not the democracy sense).
YEAH! Like universal health care, and an end to the 35% of health care expenditure that goes to parasite insurance companies! WOOT!
(Just for reference, the US is the only western country to tie health care to one's employer. It is a strange combination, that has many perverse effects such as separating the consumer from the one paying the health care bills, and turning the bill-payers into care-denial organizations. The macro effect is that we spend more of our GDP on health care than any other country in the world, yet our population dies sooner (about 3 years' shorter life span).)
Yeah! I want my government deciding if I get care or not because they can make such a better decision that I can make for myself or my children.
I want my trip to the doctor to be like a trip to the DMV.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
"warmongering" You guys have pretty much turned that phrase into a null, much like overuse has made 'bigot' and 'fascist' pretty empty.
This coming from someone who spews the word "liberal" every third word. Again, hypocrite.
Just callin' it like I see it.
The MSM just liked to make that insinuation. And Democrats loved jumping on it in an attempt to wash their hands of their own blame.
Oh yes, numerous Democrats saw the same reports President Bush did. And believed there to be WMDs or at least the intent to develop them.
Oh, and while there were no nukes or such. There probably was a lot of raw materials for WMDs...the fact we waited months while trucks moved out massive amount of equipment from Iraq. The fact we found lots of dual use chemicals and equipment. But the U.N. and U.S. media refused to accept such as evidence.
Oh, and it was a GOOD military strategy. One of the fundamental rules. Just like the best defense is a good offense. Another rule of war is bring the fight to your enemy.
Thanks to that decision, most of Al-Quaeda's efforts have focused on Iraq and not on the U.S.