Last week, in order to bring some media attention to the issue, (Sen. Arlen) Specter suggested senators sign a petition to take responsibility for initial consideration of three nominees away from the judiciary committee, and wrote letters to all three presidential candidates asking for their opinion.The post notes that only Obama responded. So you’d think Specter would be appreciative and maybe ask Hillary and “Straight Talk” McCain why they haven’t done so also, right?
Boy, are you wrong. Didn’t you get the memo? Why, this is “Pile On Barack Obama For Inane BS Time,” you great, big silly…
Obama's response drew criticism from Spector Wednesday morning on the Senate floor even though the Illinois senator was the only one to respond.Remind me never to show a shred of sympathy or human decency towards Specter again, OK? What a cheap shot.
"A senator's duties are not delegable (Obama said “he'll defer to (Sen. Patrick) Leahy to schedule (Judiciary Committee) hearings and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to schedule votes”). No senator can delegate to anyone else his constitutional responsibilities. The constitution does not refer to the judiciary committee. The constitution does not refer to the majority leader," Specter declared.
"Even if it did, that would not provide a basis for a senator duly elected, sworn, sworn to uphold the constitution, as I took an oath on five occasions, and as senator Obama has taken an oath," he continued.
"Every member of this body has taken an oath to uphold the constitution. The constitution says the Senate confirms."
And Obama was also endorsed by a pro-gun group yesterday on the anniversary of the VA Tech shootings (as if the timing for such a vile trick by people who probably wouldn’t even give Obama the time of day is somehow the Senator’s fault), and ABC “News” is also crowing about the fact that Obama apparently forgot what he wrote on a gun questionnaire in 1996.
I don’t know about you, people, but I can barely remember if we even made our mortgage payments from two months ago, let alone twelve years ago! This is more “gotcha” BS totally devoid of any substance whatsoever.
Apparently, that pathetic "debate" last night was supposed to be the cherry on the icing of the proverbial cake after a day of Obama bashing (except for the questionnaire thing, I guess). Nice.
And by the way, the ABC blog tells a story of earmark abuse by Repug U.S. House Rep Don Young of Alaska, one of the guilty culprits in the 2006 “Bridge To Nowhere” fiasco. I’m only pointing that out for the benefit of the Bucks County Courier Times editorial board so they can read about earmark abuse for real instead of piling on Patrick Murphy yet again today for earmark requests of his own that will be revealed “in the light of day” when they are decided upon one way or the other on behalf of this district and not Murphy himself in any way (God, what a broken record - and I'd like to see one of these "Taxpayers For Common Sense" characters run for public office and get elected so I can see how well they do at practicing what they preach).
Update: And by the way, this is a great post explaining why the pundit blowhards are frothing over "Bittergate" (ugh).
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as you probably have as well, i've reached the inescapable conclusion that our media, political, corporate, and government elites are scared shitless of obama and will do and say absolutely anything to see him go down... there is simply no other way to interpret what's happening...
the other very interesting insight that should be hitting everyone between the eyes is that there's no visible daylight between those elites, be they repub or dem... they are of a piece, share the same agenda, and are, by god, hell-bent on not losing one iota of power nor forsaking a single one of the lavish perks they feel are theirs by divine right...
Yep…in the event of an Obama presidency (which this country sorely needs), I’m not going to hold my breath on, for example, the matter of whether or not he’ll do away with the so-called “signing statements” or the military tribunals per se. He may end up using that precedent, which would be his right unfortunately, though I have a feeling he’d actually close Guantanamo for real (at least, as much as he can – I think a judge ruled that Camp X-Ray has to remain open, but I’m not sure).
And yes, the media wants so desperately for Clinton to run against McCain because she’d lose that it’s ridiculous; I’d say that Obama is getting the “John Edwards treatment,” but Edwards was merely ignored – Obama is getting all of the trivial garbage instead…I’m sure someone will find out that he didn’t reinforce the holes in his loose leaf properly before he turned in his homework assignments in grade school or he dipped little girls’ pigtails in ink wells or something, and that will be the next lead story on the Nutwork News.
And I know Obama isn’t perfect – Hillary is actually better than he is on health care, and he keeps saying that Clinton voted for the Bankruptcy Bill when she didn’t (she ended up not voting on it at all, which is tantamount to voting for it, I suppose). But I think you’re spot-on ultimately about “the elites,” and the latest example is the bill in the Senate intended to help those who’ve lost or are losing their homes in the subprime mortgage debacle, but which has ended up full of tax breaks for everyone except those hurt the most (thanks loads, Sen. Max Baucus). But I think in spite of it all that Obama is the best shot we have at turning things around – God knows there’s no shot with the other two.
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