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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News Specter defection jerks the monkeys' chains
Posted By John Grooms on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Republican reaction to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter's defection to the Democrats yesterday has made it pretty clear that the Pennsylvania lawmaker got out just one step ahead of a lynch mob. It has also crystallized the paranoid goofiness that has come to characterize the Obama-era GOP. You expect the Republicans to be disappointed or angry about Specter's switch, but rightwing bloggers and commentators today are routinely throwing out the word "traitor" and "un-American" to describe the moderate-to-conservative senator.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, apparently not wanting to be out-paranoia'd by other party members, went all out, saying that Specter's move is "a threat to the country." Yep, it looks like we'll all be socialist slaves sooner rather than later now, at least according to ole Mitch. McConnell and his talk show friends are claiming alarm at the fact that Democrats may soon have a filibuster-proof majority. Mighty Mitch said the American people don't "want the majority to have whatever it wants without restraint, without a check or a balance," and that "the danger for the country is that there won't be an ability to restrain the excess that is typically associated with big majorities and single-party rule." In other words, the way Republicans ruled during Bush's first six years, shoving one law after another down the Democrats' throats.
Did I hear someone say something about payback being a bitch?
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