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IS THAT 60 YET?
April 28, 2009
Political Wire
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I’m not bothering with anything witty. It’s about goddamn time. Shove your desk on over, sir, we’ve been expecting you.
This can best be summed up by pointing to the Republicans and invoking the voice of Nelson Munce:
Ha Ha!
IT’s A TRAP!
/Akbar
[re=301591]Ahneta[/re]: Yeah, but the cynics (me) know it is because he was going to suffer an ass-whuppin’ by Toomey in the election. Much better chance running as a Dem.
Will he be changing his legal name to “Specter the Defector?”
Another heathen rolls under the wheels of the invincible juggernaught of Kenyan Socialism! Hooray!
Holy crap, it’s an eight-Drudge-alarm fire!
I guess the urban-surbuban hip-hop strategy is working out well, then, eh?
I just visited Drudge for the first time in 2 years. Here’s the headline, which amusingly assumes that Franken is going to be seated sometime before his term would end in 2014.
60 60 60
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) announces switch to Dem Party…
Statement…
Decision gives filibuster proof majority…
Will the Republicans just try to cure him like they do teh gays?
Specter must have a huge set of TruckNutz. Also.
Looks Arlen went “Up and went to the Left” much like the single bullet theory he developed.
Has Michelle Bachmann commented yet? I’m eager to hear what she
thinksshrieks.Best news ever; it almost makes me want to go visit Free Republic to laugh at them.
No matter the reason for being a turncoat, at least he’s our turncoat now. A man who’s just switched parties is in a strange position. I’m hoping he’ll wanna prove his bona fides with a few non-blue dog votes to help Hopey. Let’s just hope he lives several more years. Cancer does no one any favors.
Which means….Al Franken will be Senator when hell freezes over.
For Barry’s next miracle to be performed before his 100th day, Snowbilly will learn how to figure a 15% tip in her head. What? Okay, no one could pull that one off.
Don’t celebrate over your 60 senators so fast, democrats. I heard a rumor* that Russ Feingold is going to leave the party and go Anarcho-Syndicalist.
*I’m trying to start one, anyway.
I think it just the MEXICAN DEATH PLAGUE that’s zombiefying his mind and temporarily altering his life-long ReThuglican leanings – but one he becomes full-zombie and acquires an insatiable hunger for the BRAINS of the living and the dead, he’ll return to the GOP, naturally…
Does this mean Lieberman will switch too?
Wow! This is Specter’s biggest back-stab since the Warren Commission report!! Congratulations, “Magic Bullet” Arlen!!!
Does this mean we will finally find out who killed Kennedy? My money is on Arthur Miller.
But give Specter credit, he at least got FOX News to stop playing Air Force One strafing Manhattan on a continuous loop.
From a RINO to a DINO?
No matter, both Senator Specter and the continued disintegration of the Rs are welcome!
I guess I shouldn’t call him “Arlen Sphincter” anymore, eh?
I’m buying a round of celebration abortions for everyone in the house!
What’s up with those nice Republican lady Senators from Maine? Have they READ their party platform? I think Obama should start seriously schmoozing them with an eye to 62. Worst case scenario, he gets to first base.
Go Phillies!
BLUE DOG!!!! YAY!
i’d probably look like that too if i had to stand next to sarah palin. seriously though, this is stupid; it just means we get another fake democrat who votes like a republican in the senate (poor evan bayh is going to have to work that much harder at being the biggest DINO douche), and the republicans are going to help coleman piss on franken that much harder. hooray for arlen i guess, he’s figured out an easy way to keep his day job, he obviously can’t afford to be unemployed like the rest of us in this economy.
Your thoughts, Chairman Steele? – a breathless nation awaits!
I didn’t leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left me.
That pic is outstanding. The expression on Specter’s face as he looks over a crowd of people screaming NOBAMA and SOCIALIST and WILLIAM AYRES…and then looks to his right to see Caribou Barbie revving ‘em on…
Specter, you always were too good for that kind of nonsense. Welcome home.
Where did you get that picture of McCain and Specter posing with a leather jacketed $50 whore?
I guess the Repubs should have been nicer to him. See, it never pays to be an asshole to someone for disagreeing with you. That being said, a hearty fuck you to anyone that disagrees with my assessment.
So much for integrity, convictions, etc. The guy should just resign and go home. While he has his ear to the ground, someone should kick him hard in the ass.
Well, if people couldn’t tell that Specter was disenchanted with the Republican party from that picture, they just weren’t paying attention.
The phrase “shit sandwich” comes to mind.
[re=301616]horned_viper[/re]: yes, he’ll be a Top now…
So, he was anti-choice for what, a week then? I guess that ideological corn cobb is pretty uncomfortable for a man with his condition.
When did Palin get the Michael Jackson Thriller jacket!?
[re=301616]horned_viper[/re]: I’m worried about that as well
Also, too,respectfully so, Caribou Barbie is only raising her arms as high as McCain is able. Or she has pit stains, not sure.
This just screams “gay for pay”.
hey now we know what arlen was thinking in that picture, “how soon can i get the fuck out of here?”
Welcome! Enjoy your 18 months with us while we gin up a Democratic primary challenger who isn’t 180 years old and anti-labor!
This story changes importance. I come here once, and it is 4 sirens, back again and it is only 3. HOW MANY SIRENS DOES THIS STORY DESERVE?
[re=301605]tootsieroll[/re]: i think this happened in part because they REFUSED to cure him. remember when Smegma-head Santorum and the rest of the fundies hated science and stem cells while poor Arlen nearly keeled over right in front of them? Arlen remembers. He also remembers when they nominated Snowbilly to cater to the Santorums.
It would be a shame if something happened to ol’ Normie, wouldn’t it? If some heavy objct were to fall out of a window as he was walking by?
Yup. It would be a shame.
I’m from the Twin Cities. I could provide accurate directions to the Capital if anyone were interested. I’m just sayin’ …
Politico’s “this looks bad for Obama” angle: Democratic Party Shifts to the Right!
Oh me of little faith…I say watch how he votes until 2010…
Tadow! How you like me now?
Despite misgivings (conservative Democrat, Evan Bayh is an asshole, etc.) the symbolic value of this switch outweighs everything. Even more so on the eve of Hopey’s 100th day in office.
I am looking forward to all the statements from the jilted Republican brides tonight on KO. Got my cheese ready for the whines.
Wow, this AND a Carla Bruni sex tape all in one morning? God Bless America! And France. Also.
[re=301597]Doglessliberal[/re]: Not really. He might have a 5% extra chance, but re-election as a Repub (assuming he beat Toomey, not terribly likely) was probably not in the cards, and he’ll just get smashed in the Demo primary instead.
HA HA HA Ken just changed the Drudge siren to a big-ass Cop Car/Fire Truck light bar.
Arlen’s switch makes this photo from this week’s issue of The Onion weirdly prescient:
Last Few Republican Senators Form Roman Tortoise
Wait, I thought Specter was just convicted for the murder of an actress in his Hollywood mansion?
I’m sorry start again, I wasn’t paying attention.
[re=301646]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Those chicken-shit little drudge cop lights were PISSING ME OFF, the way they refused to align properly, so I upped the motherfucking ante and Drudge is DONE.
[re=301629]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: Leather? That beauty’s gotta be 100% naugahyde.
The only thing this switch tells me is that he’s not secretly gay.
Somebody needs to put a mike on Micheal Steele right now
[re=301646]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Oooh, now it’s just one ultrawide siren.
Now that’s a fancy new siren…
[re=301605]tootsieroll[/re]: They will be praying for him.
I think that he was blown to the Left when Palin opened her mouth after being asked about Sartre’s existential marxism.
[re=301625]davesnothere[/re]: Rush just peed himself. I know, I know, that is nothing new.
[re=301659]Ken Layne[/re]: I formally demand a Children’s Treasury of WINGNUT RESPONSES to Arlen’s great defection.
video of Specter’s press conference:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkcoobYUu8g
1 And Barry saw the mess he had made of the GOP, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, day the 99th.
2 And on the 100th day Barry ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the 100th day from all his work which he had made. And lo, he played some golf and surfed Bloomberg from his Blackberry.
That’s a ghetto-fab new siren, Ken. Well done.
[re=301646]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: How many sirens? You mean Whore Sirens?
Will the last Republican please turn out the lights!
[re=301646]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Now we’ve got super-duper light bars. And this page will take ten minutes to refresh on my crappy office computer. Specter gums up the works again.
OMG SUPER DRUDGE SIREN!
But seriously, from his press conference: “I have decided to run for re-election in 2010 in the Democratic primary,” said Specter in a statement. “I am ready, willing and anxious to take on all comers and have my candidacy for re-election determined in a general election.”
He added: “Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right. Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats. I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.”
That is the most awesome fuck you to the GOP ever. Better open up wide, Lieberman. No one is kissing your ass anymore. Let the teabagging begin.
i guess we know why the commentsdon’t work sometimes, ken iss let alone to play with the interwebs.
bring back jim and sara to distract him!
Well, I for one fear for the man – there is no Rush apology template letter for fuck-up this big.
[re=301659]Ken Layne[/re]: I think all those sirens were messing with my Firefox, too. Thanks!
[re=301650]SayItWithWookies[/re]: This is obviously part of Politco’s strategy to WIN THE DAWN as well as WIN THE MID-DAY SMOKE BREAK, WIN THE PISS BREAK YOU USUALLY TAKE AROUND 11:30 AM OR WHEN YOU GET TIRED OF LOOKING AT YOUR SCREEN, WIN THE AFTERNOON COMMUTE, and WIN THE FITFUL, RESTLESS SLEEP THAT NEWSPAPER EXECUTIVES HAVE EVERY NIGHT AFTER PONDERING POLITICO’S STRATEGY TO WIN THE DAWN.
All caps!
[re=301612]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: I’ve always just figured that the extra tip I pay by simply multiplying the first number (sometimes I go as far as the first decimal point!) by two is worth not looking like a)an idiot who can’t do math, or b)some sort of crazed lunatic who has to make sure they don’t pay a cent over 15%. also.
Oh, they’re going nuts! Republicans are eating their own… SPECTOR AINT A TURNCOAT HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LIBERAL FOOL.. an aol chatter
The right-wing punditry death star has now set a course for PA
[re=301655]imissopus[/re]: Where’s that Bruni tape at, please….
[re=301621]Lazy Media[/re]: Bite your tongue or Michelle will cut you.
[re=301659]Ken Layne[/re]: Now THAT’S a motherfucking siren.
I need Nate Silver to do his fancy Senate math.
Hey, I just read in The Times that the Republicans can (at least) now claim the Craigslist Killer as one of their own. It appears that Markoff is a College Republican who even went to hear Karl and Coulter speak in 2004. Cool!
making PA a more solid blue state. this is good.
[re=301616]horned_viper[/re]: Just as Specter was no longer a Republican by current definition, Lieberman is a Republican in everything but name. Though I suspect that with the White House in the hands of the Dems Lieberman is self-serving enough to stay Ind in order to get maximum attention and ass kissing.
Pennsylvanians, please reassure us that Toomey won’t be headed to the Senate chambers in direct consequence of this.
I’m sure the Republicans will now be demanding his birth certificate, even though it doesn’t keep him from serving in the Senate. Which is good, because I’m pretty sure it’s written on parchment with a quill pen.
[re=301663]qaf[/re]: “Ultrawide siren.”
I believe that’s how the celeb rags refer to Nikki Blonsky.
Don’t worry GOP, this is all part of Michael Steele’s brilliant secret plan – yup, all part of the plan.
The siren itself looks like a Blingee. Genius.
TRUCK☺NUTZ
♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫
[re=301699]AllHat[/re]: Toomey: The New Santorum.
Shudder.
Hannity was seen buying rope at Home Depot and he has no cattle!
And boy, images of Sarah P. are still as annoying as they were 5 months ago.
[re=301702]Scarab[/re]: Does the rest of the plan involve Steele fleeing to a Caribbean island or drowning himself in a bucket of water?
[re=301659]Ken Layne[/re]: NOW THAT IS A MOTHA’ FUCKIN’ SIREN.
Seriously, this calls for a massive trolling campaign. SHORTS!!!!!!
[re=301672]magic titty[/re]: The freeptards almost want Snowe and Collins to follow suit.
[re=301682]Gopherit[/re]: Best response to the bit about the party-switching in Pa. was a freeper who believes it was all because of Operation Chaos.
This from “Bean Counter” on Free Republic:
I’m sending another twenty to Pat Toomey! At least this saves him the expense of fighting Arlen in the Primary.
Whoaaaa…Specter better watch out! A freeper is sending his opponent an extra TWENTY WHOLE DOLLARS! Gloom, despair and agony everywhere!
Obviously this defection was the result of the hugely successful teabagging.
Well done patriots!
This is a happy day. Smurfy in fact – laaa la la la la laaa.
He didn’t really defect. It was actually Olympia Snow, Susan Collins, and Joe Lieberman from the grassy knoll.
Now, that’s change we can believe in.
[re=301619]FlamingSooner[/re]: Don’t give up the nickname until he proves himself at least marginally better.
Srsly, considering how the Club for Colon Growths and other conservative hit-squads went after any Republican who didn’t vote to the right of Franco, they should so not be surprised. Continue ourobourosing yourselves, PON!
… and so the GOP goes not gently into that good night, locked into a suicide pact with the left-behinds and Fox News… BWAH HAH HAH!
[re=301713]trondant[/re]: How long until Michele Bachmann is “two librul” for their tastes?
Soooooooo… about that permanent Republican majority we were promised…
It always did seem funny that the Republican senator from Pennsylvania was pro choice and the Democrat was pro life.
[re=301715]Lazy Media[/re]: Well, of course it is. Duh!
Hannity’s goons are praising the GOP for “outing” the closet liberal.
[re=301615]Bearbloke[/re]: Please God, do not make me into one of those purple balloons without the dot in the middle. The end.
Wait ’till Arlen gets a load of the crazy wacky off the hinge Dem “Initiation Rites”!
Michael Steele just made a extra nasty statement saying that Spector is basically a power hungry politician who will do anything to win an election. Steele was just effectively saying Rethugs are a bunch of losers. Thanks Michael Steele!
Some comments from the RedState gnash-a-thon:
Who’s really made the move? The democrats. Way to the left. It’s a lie to say the GOP is now pandering to the most foul parts of its base. The real truth is that there are no Scoop Jackson democrats anymore. Now all we have are Nancy Pelosi democrats. So which party is the one that’s moved away from itself, again?
Dems ACT Conservative to get elected and govern liberal…Republicans act liberal to attract “Moderates and independents” and govern liberal as well!
Can’t wait to hear from all you damned “experts” who called to continue support of this traitor.
[re=301690]V572625694[/re]: A completely uncalled for preposition like “at”…tsk-tsk. I’ll bet you also let your particples dangle in public.
Philly, great rock ‘n roll town!
Snark aside, I’m not fully convinced on this one. Specter’s known for pussing out at the last minute. Wouldn’t surprise me if Cheney comes out of his coffin filled with dirt from the old country to intimidate him. I’ll believe it when the primaries happen, and even so, I’m not sure if I would vote for him. Besides, he’s not going to vote for the Employee Free Choice Act.
Oh and Ken, Your siren lights also kick the shit out of Red State’s siren lights. Also.
Forgot to add, love the looks of constipation on WALNUTS! and Specter’s faces.
[re=301702]Scarab[/re]: Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele just put out a scathing statement:
Some in the Republican Party are happy about this. I am not.
Let’s be honest-Senator Specter didn’t leave the GOP based on principles of any kind. He left to further his personal political interests because he knew that he was going to lose a Republican primary due to his left-wing voting record.
Republicans look forward to beating Sen. Specter in 2010, assuming the Democrats don’t do it first.
Holy shit! Mike is pissed yo!
[re=301608]Dave J.[/re]: Pass on Free Republic, I don’t want swine flu on my work computer.
Michael Steele responds:
Some in the Republican Party are happy about this. I am not.
Let’s be honest-Senator Specter didn’t leave the GOP based on principles of any kind. He left to further his personal political interests because he knew that he was going to lose a Republican primary due to his left-wing voting record.
Republicans look forward to beating Sen. Specter in 2010, assuming the Democrats don’t do it first.
[re=301659]Ken Layne[/re]: Major props for the Anti-Drudge siren. Can we haz blue lights too? They so pretty.
[re=301711]Gopherit[/re]: Someone put up the bat signal!
This is a terrible sign! People with flu-like symptoms are always the first ones to leave the party.
Ooh, I can finally comment again!
[re=301699]AllHat[/re]: Nah, I think we’re good. Dems have a reasonably large advantage in registration, and the people who hated Specter the most even before this party switch seem to be the Republicans.
This is all part of The One’s plan to get Air Force One off the front page. The One works in mysterious ways. Who are we mere mortals to question?
[re=301741]BlackEuro.Observer[/re]: And, pray tell, just how can Spector both not “leave the GOP based on principles of any kind” and have a “left-wing voting record” hmmmmmmm?
No way the Republicans don’t go apeshit fearcrazy over this news… Coleman’s legal fund is going to swell like a thirsty tick on Hastert’s ass.
[re=301747]PerhapsSo[/re]: Yeah, he is pretty much like Murtha–he brings it home for his people, and they love him for it. The Repubs have been hating him lately for being “liberal” (hahahahahahaha), so I think he has a pretty easy time as the Dem candidate. There is only one other announced candidate for that nom right now, and he is an unknown.
[re=301735]Custerwolf[/re]: I boldly split infinitives which no grammar nerd has split before, and avoiding ending sentences with prepositions is something up with which I will not put.
But screw that…where’s the Bruni tape?
Red State’s sirens are gay little cartoons, our Wonkette sirens are ballsy, librul trucknutty ones. The comments there suck. Also.
[re=301737]Schadenfried[/re]: He says he won’t vote for EFCA now, but just wait. Specter, like a fine wine, takes some time to realize his full potential (i.e., figure out how to best back down from a previous statement). I think he’ll make a big show about how his original opposition to the bill caused the sponsors to make some concessions (and as a show of gratitude, the Dem. sponsors might make some superficial change to give him cover), and that based on those changes he can now support it, and he’ll vote “aye.”
[re=301608]Dave J.[/re]: …it almost makes me want to go visit Free Republic….
I did. They seemed … how do you say it … disturbed?
[re=301659]Ken Layne[/re]: By doing so, you WON THE AFTERNOON.
Wow that tumor must be getting out of hand.
[re=301754]V572625694[/re]: That’s better. Now please see me after class.
[re=301737]Schadenfried[/re]: Yeah, what good is he? People thought he might be number 60 as a Republican. That’s votes, what matters, not how many wavering Democrats there are. But maybe now since he’s avoiding a primary he’ll vote for EFCA.
Check out the picture posted on the White House blog. That is one big “fuck you” to Republicans.
Alert! Michael Steele to give his comments to CNN momentarily.
Does this mean he’ll also help fix our ridiculous liquor laws here in PA, now? That could upset that particular demographic that hates him even more, and it would mean more beer for the rest of us.
I guess this is one way to get the Democratic Party mentioned on TV…
[re=301659]Ken Layne[/re]: At any rate, the new siren makes it rain* on Drudge’s siren!
*see Urban Dictionary.com for details.
[re=301616]horned_viper[/re]: you read my mind. Lieberfuck’s been a Fakelican for a long time..but now, for which side will he be faking?
[re=301753]Doglessliberal[/re]: I liked my boyfriend Nate’s take on it: “The Republican nominee is probably going to be Toomey, who will be an underdog against any sentient Democrat.” I’m guessing he would even be an underdog against some not-so-sentient Dems, Carnahan-style.
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Evan Bayh,
Tina Fey,
What more do we have to say?
♫♫♫♫♫
We didn’t start the fire…
(I’m working on it!)
“Republicans look forward to beating Sen. Specter in 2010, assuming the Democrats don’t do it first.”
Iron Mike Steele
There, there, little warrior, Momma’s gonna buy you a mockingbird.
who’s next, Norm Coleman?
Michael Steele haz a sad:
“Some in the Republican Party are happy about this. I am not.
Let’s be honest-Senator Specter didn’t leave the GOP based on principles of any kind. He left to further his personal political interests because he knew that he was going to lose a Republican primary due to his left-wing voting record.
Republicans look forward to beating Sen. Specter in 2010, assuming the Democrats don’t do it first.”
Your tears are so sweet, Michael.
Fuck – I finally get that photo now. Palin’s the gameshow host and she’s holding in each hand a notecard. The challenge is for the audience to guess which hand holds the card reading
“will end his political career in shame and humiliation”
and which holds the one reading,
“will announce a switch in party affiliation before Obama’s first 100 days are up.”
Oooo! Oooo! I know this one!!!
The sound you’re hearing is that of wingnut heads exploding. Maybe they can find a nice island off of Somolia or something.
[re=301608]Dave J.[/re]: I did it. It was fun.
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The Freeper menu; Hannity repeats this for his warm-up nightly…is there any independent thought in wingnutville? I thought not.
Can we just give them Lieberman now? Please! Take him!
[re=301777]snideinplainsight[/re]: Problem: “Bayh” is pronounced to rhyme with “fly.”
[re=301772]superfecta[/re]: Then the Philadelphia Trader Joe’s could sell two-buck Chuck, buying alcohol for parties wouldn’t take stops at two or three stores, and all would be right with the universe.
Now if we could just get Jindal and Palin to switch, we’d be all set. By switch, I mean switch to being pig farmers in Mexico.
[re=301716]PsycGirl[/re]: Hey now, twenty dollars can buy one whole bottle of booze!
[re=301699]AllHat[/re]: Toomey is too batshit insane for PA. The dark red rural “T” counties love him, but there are enough blue votes in Philly, Pittsburgh, Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Johnstown, and Erie to make up for that.
In other words PA =/= South Carolina, with the exception of maybe Lancaster County and some of the other weird counties with lots of elk and black bear.
Heh. A friend told me about this and just said “Specter.” I was thinking “to what side did Phil Spector move? So now he’s agreeing that he’s guilty?”
Oh. Arlen Specter. Well, awesome.
[re=301609]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Agreed. My state rep recently switched sides to become a Dem after he served his first term as a Republican and realized how often he voted with the Dems. He was um, in a VERY weird position for a while, but people seem to have moved on since then.
2:15 – Live on the teevees your new Senator Spec.
[re=301758]Dave J.[/re]: exactly. ditto for Sen. Blanche Lincoln.
It has been my experience in Brooklyn and to use the mafia as an example. When one flips and the fallout is minor more will flip. Walnuts the bull anyone?
[re=301771]NoSoupForYou[/re]: He goes further “I planned this whole thing out because I’m muthafuckin HARD like Remington Steel. “
See, over on red state, sources have confirmed that Specter has switched parties. Sources have confirmed! And what is going on here? Just trucknutz jokes and so on.
[re=301797]Capitol Hillbilly[/re]: Yeah, but Blanche is (D-WalMart), so I doubt she’s ever going to do anything even remotely pro-union.
Free Republic/Redstate Plan for Reviving Republican Party:
(1) Run ultra-right Tea baggers against all “moderate” (fascist/socialist/commie/French) Republicans in party primaries.
(2) Celebrate when said “moderate” members leave party, making us even more “pure” (more Southern, white, and uned-u-ma-cated) then we already are because being “pure” is more important than having ANY disagreement within the party over whether Obama is a fascist or a socialist or both at the same time.
(3) Blame liberal media for continued loses and demend even more purity among party membership.
Rinse and repeat, baby!
[re=301781]Gopherit[/re]: That assumes Specter will run in 2010. Five gets you 10 that Fast Eddie Rendell will run since he’s term-limited in 2010.
And Fast Eddie has a track record of electorally destroying black Republicans, even thoguh said black Republican was a Steeler and looks like The Rock. So if we’re lucky, Iron Mike will stick around until 2010 and experience complete EPIC POLITICAL FAIL when Rendell beats Toomey.
RE: Michael Steele’s response.
I’m sorry Iron Mike, you’re going to have to speak up. I can hardly hear you with that dick in your mouth.
And man, a girl could really get used to all of this winning. It must be what it felt like to be a republican a few years ago, minus the bombing and shitting on poor people.
[re=301800]BklynIlluminati[/re]:
They’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse? Hopefully with Trucknutz.
[re=301789]Dave J.[/re]: Yah, but it looks good in print. Bii, Baaah, Ba-yee, &etc.
[re=301772]superfecta[/re]: (good)Beer and wine sold in supermarkets? Yes please!
Michael Steele probably thinks that he popped a cap in Specter’s ass with that statement.
Specter. As in SPECTER OF DEATH!!!
Please do a “children’s treasury” post from the wingnut comments. A Free Republic favorite:
“pillut48
Arlin Sphincter. What you get after a case of the Swine Flew.
YOU LEFTIST BA$TARD. DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE A$$.”
[re=301801]El Pinche[/re]: I was thinking “muthafucking HARD like Lexington Steele” myself.
[re=301759]qwerty42[/re]:
“Benedict Arlen”. HAHAHAHA!
Their tears, a balm to my troubled soul….
And so the right wing slips a little farther into the pit of extreme nuttiness.
Soon they will just be one giant collective mind that just spits out RNC generated buzzwords like Teabag! Abortion! Pickle! Noobama! Socialist! Gay Agenda!
[re=301780]bathalax[/re]: Phil Gramm will be next. He’s seen the light, and will tearfully announce his return to the party he so mistakenly left back in the days of the Gip GOP. He will say he’s willing to serve his country again in whatever capacity best suits his abilities. President Obama will phone him within seven minutes of his announcement and offer him the prestigious position of White House Dogwalker, complete with scooper and plastic bags. Phil will gratefully accept and will even decline remuneration (did I spell that right? What does it mean?).
You can’t spell “pogrom” without GOP.
[re=301741]BlackEuro.Observer[/re]: Yeah, Sttele has totally lost his shit on this one. So much for the never-question-your-counterpart’s-motives rule of polite politicking.
Stay klassy, Mike.
[re=301655]imissopus[/re]: What? Where?!
[re=301690]V572625694[/re]: Indeed. Inquiring minds need to know. For research purposes only, of course.
[re=301733]SayItWithWookies[/re]: The part about “Nancy Pelosi Democrats” sums it all up rather nicely. Just about all the new Dems elected in the last election are anti-gun control, sceptical to abortion and probably wouldn’t mind a bit of school prayer. They just don’t believe that gubmint is always always evil. Of course, for the Freeper crowd, that makes them Fascist Communist fags. No wonder Specter hightailed it outta there.
Take that Michelle Bachmann! Barry’s re-education camps are working and you’re next.
[re=301805]President Beeblebrox[/re]: Fast Eddie will have my vote over Specter.
[re=301672]magic titty[/re]: Done.
[re=301655]imissopus[/re]: Wha?!
[re=301629]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: I used to be able to buy better than that for $30 up around the Hunts Point Market. The we got that ferret hating fascist..
[re=301602]V572625694[/re]: If the couple thousand replies that beat me to this one are as funny as yours, I’m going to need a split for my ribs.
The best thing about this whole thing is this awesome new siren thingy.
[re=301626]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Except that, you know, Specter is going to follow through and actually LEAVE the party. Unlike the apostate virgin, Vinegar Joe.
As much as I welcome this pragmatic Democratic advantage, I will always think of Specter as the Senator who viciously attacked Anita Hill (while Dems impotently stared at their crotches), thus ushering in the craziest, most obviously dishonest, dumb-fuck to disgrace the Supreme Court in a century.
[re=301842]Ken Layne[/re]: that was quick…you’re overworked and underpaid.
[re=301613]SmutBoffin[/re]: Russ Feingold? As you young dudes would say, I’d hit that.
O fart balls, US swine flu deaths possibly.
[re=301858]Accordion-o-rama[/re]: Yeah, that’ll be stuck in my craw awhile longer.
So, with Spector gone, who’s gonna even try and act as a brake on the crazies? Steele? Joe the faux-plummer? The “believes in witches” Snowbilly? Joe “Jesus Made the Oil” Barton? My listens-to-Rush sister?
Oh God, Help the Secret Service. Amen.
Ooohhh—Joe Sestak (D-AngryPlace) or however you spell his Ellis Island name–says the DCCC didn’t want him to run after he got out of the Navy but he did, anyway. So there, Sen. New Democrat, show us your socialist bona fides. Did Harry Reid not think to run this past the Penn. Democratic Party? (I’m assuming they have one. In OK, all it takes is a phone and a three-way conference call for us to get all the Democrats in on a decision.)
[re=301887]McDuff[/re]: Shep Smith – the one who can save us now.
As I said on another thread when when the wonkeratti broke this news (note to Ken: Pay attention) and hijacked a pig plague thread, he sponsored the Free Choice Act last time, now he says he’s against it and won’t change his position on that.
You’re going to win as a democrat in Pennsylvania by fucking labor? Yeah, good luck on that, Senator. Methinks Rep. Immigrant- Name will be fighting to sponsor it in the House.
[re=301858]Accordion-o-rama[/re]: Ladies and Gentlemen, your newest Supreme Couat Justice of the United States of America, A-a-a-hlen Speeeeectah!
[re=301842]Ken Layne[/re]: Bruni w/Princess L of Spain?
[re=301759]qwerty42[/re]: The Freepers are always going on about something, teh buttseks, communism, Mexico sending it’s diseased fifth columnists across the border to turn us all into sneezing Massikans…Obama strafing Manhattan in Air force One…and of course the rest of us have all gone “Islamo/Fascist/Commie” on ‘em…the world if a very scary place from where they sit.
So hug a conservative, they’re having a rough day. Just walk right up, wrap your arms around them and give them a little peck on the forehead and tell them…” It’s OK Rambo, you didn’t like him anyway, besides which we all know Pat Toomey wouldn’t be elected dog catcher in a general election because…he’s a nut, just like you”.
[re=301822]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: (looking around me) I think they’re already there.
Jeepers
Freepers
Where’d ya get those leapers?
Ok. I know it’s lame. I’m humming it anyway.
http://cityfile.com/dailyfile/5540 – a wonkette shirt to the first one who posts a link?
I should have been more specific: seems thieves broke into an apartment where there were “intimate” photos and videos of the lovely Ms. Bruni with a former partner, and said photos and videos were the only items stolen. So it’s either a blackmail scheme or all that shit will be online soon. I’m hoping for the latter:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1174221/Highly-intimate-photos-video-Carla-Bruni-ex-lover-stolen-Paris-flat.html
[re=301771]NoSoupForYou[/re]: I was in the car and heard him. The bitch got down and nasty!
Specter fits in perfectly with most of the other Democrats in the Senate in that my neutered cat has bigger balls than he does. On the other hand, ever since he recovered from cancer, he always gave off that air that he was maybe an inch or two away from just saying “ah screw it” and actually vote and say how he really feels.
[re=301624]sarcasticusername[/re]: Looking to 2010, it might have been better for the party for the Rs to run a bruising primary against each other, the wingnut to win the a real Democrat to beat him. Unless you can get elected in Penn. with wingnut vote only. Works time after time in OK.
[re=301648]BadKitty[/re]: It would be a shame if something happened to ol’ Normie, wouldn’t it? If some heavy objct were to fall out of a window as he was walking by?
Well, seeing as how that’s EXACTLY how Norm got elected in the first place…
Never forget Wellstone!
[re=301650]SayItWithWookies[/re]: You’re shitting me. Politico has a bad-for-Obama angle? I thought this meant resistance-is-futile Obama.
it’s a great day! One more Democrat and MSNBC just said pig plague only gets 7-54 year olds. It pays to be old! Fuck you, kids.
I also want to thank all of you people who can stomach actually going to the wingnut sites and bringing back such tasty morsels of butthurt.
[re=301606]ManchuCandidate[/re]: historical win!
[re=302001]DustBowlBlues[/re]: WTF?? That makes absolutely NO sense whatsoever and I want some REAL doctor person to splain it.
[re=301810]Schadenfried[/re]: That would be so nice. As would being able to get six-packs and cases at the same place, and liquor and mixers at the same place. Or bars & restaurants not having to buy liquor/wine at the same retail prices as the rest of us, and then pass the markup on to customers.
[re=301737]Schadenfried[/re]: As to the Free Choice Act: I was just thinking that it will be very, very good if Sestak continues to save his powder on the what he’ll do in the primary. Specter no doubt assumes he has a free ride on the Democratic primary. If he has a potential–one that (unless I’m mistaken, which has been known to happen) is popular, votes like a Democrat and has the Labor’s support, there’s more pressure on Specter to vote like a Democrat.
I still think, well, “I’m going to be a Democrat now, get a free ride in the primary and run against a wingnut, so I win! Oh yeah, Fuck you, Labor.” may not be a winning strategy.
Ha! Ed Shultz is doing Specter impersonations as I type (no, he’s not talking shit about him, yet).
does this mean the contract with amerikkka is ova?
Specter’s opponent has a funny-shaped head:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Toomey
And here’s something to ponder folks, via Wikipedia:
As recently as March 18, 2009, Specter denied rumors that he was considering switching parties, and pledged to run “as a Republican on the Republican ticket”.[26] However, on April 28, 2009, Arlen Specter confirmed he will run as a Democrat in the 2010 election.[27] [28][29]
There are only two vowels separating defecate from defect. I’m sure this means something.
BLINGEEEEEEEEEEEEE Repost:
http://blingee.com/blingee/view/89587142-SPECTER-DONKEYPUNCH
This picture is proof that Sarah Palin causes cancer.
[re=302382]Atheist Nun[/re]: WIN! Few things are more amusing than a smiling donkey firing a pistol. Well done, heretic.
[re=302419]hobospacejunkie[/re]: He’s firing magic bullets, donchaknow.
Alt-alt-text:
“There’s still a .27% chance I win this. Less likely things have happened.”
“Yay team! Yay team! Yay team! WOOOOOOO!!!!”
“I am not here. This is not happening. I am really standing in a nice grassy field, with bunny rabbits nibbling gently at my bare toes.”
[re=301792]Schadenfried[/re]: You should buy your liquor in Oklahoma–I buy my husband’s Laphroig (sp?) in a fifth, or quart, or whatever the normal size bottle is, for just under $30.00. When Park Hill’s has sales, I get that big bottle of Jack Daniels (black) for about the same prize. Wine, I think, isn’t that good a deal, compared to what others pay.
Smoking is cheaper, too. That’s the hypocrisy of the bible belt–talk a good game, keep sin taxes low. My mother always said the Baptists wanted to keep this state dry so they could buy their whiskey at their back door after dark. Those liquor stores with all those platel glass windows suck. If you’re a Baptist deacon.
It must be the swine flu!
Michele Malkin, Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, Ted Stevens, Bill Reilly, Karen Hughes, Karl Rove and John Bolton all just announced that they’re also switching to the Democratic Party!
And LNS just released a press release announcing, “Due to the change in the national political climate, Late Night Shots will hereby be a purely liberal, left-wing, Democratic organization, and we will no longer be meeting or socializing at Smith Point. From this point on, we will be meeting at Busboys and Poets, and we will be sponsoring a concert and new vaudeville series at the Palace of Wonders bar on H Street. Thank your for your continued patronage. –Late Night Shots.”
Wow!
Isn’t Spenser’s that practical joke and dildo shop in the mall? Do they still exist?
Those flashing lights are killer, it makes Drudge look like some 70s sitcom southern sheriff.
[re=302222]A Better American Than YOU[/re]: There are only two vowels separating defecate from defect. I’m sure this means something.
Well of course. “Defect” is what you get after you have a vowel movement.
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