Democrats – Idiots Again

I do enjoy watching the Democratic leadership stumble and bumble their way to ineffectiveness. It's just so absurd and stupid, all one can do is chuckle. The latest ridiculousness came last week, when they opened their arms wide for former Republican Senator Arlen Specter. He’s now a Democrat! Who will vote like a Republican! How awesome is that?

“Since my election in 1980,” Senator Specter said today, “the Republican Party has moved far to the right. I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.”

Bullshit. He wanted to stay a Senator and that’s it. This is anything but a good sign. All it proves is how far the Republicans have gone to the right – to the point where they are nearly insane. They are now driving out actual conservatives and the Democrats are accepting them into their ranks – further pushing their party to the right. Awesome. He constantly voted with Bush on issues like Iraq, the Patriot Act, Bush’s insane judicial nominees, Bush’s insane department appointees, telecom immunity, warrantless wiretapping, tax cuts and has strongly been opposed to any investigation of the many Bush crimes. See, what the leadership knows that you don't is that the Democrats need another Dianne Feinstein, Joe Lieberman or Ben Nelson. Add another problematic jackass to the pile, because these are the "moderates" who force the Democratic Party to act like Republicans in order to get things passed.

Apparently, Democrats think the best way to build their majority, is to bring in people who agree with them on around 10% of stuff. And they want that guy to be from the blue state of Pennsylvania, the guy who was driven from his crazy party for being too liberal, even though he is very, very conservative. He’s just not crazy conservative. But the Democrats love it! Thanks for the trash! They'll take it!

Democrats have apparently given Specter undeserved seniority, upsetting some long time Democratic Senators.

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, four years Specter’s junior in the Senate, protests, “It doesn’t work that way.” And though Reid promises that no changes will be made to committee chairs until after 2010, Harkin, chairman of the Labor, Health and Human Services and Environment Subcommittee, wasn’t mollified. “I’m not going to give it up then, either.”

Nice. And the leadership also thought it would be a great idea to promise him party support in the Democratic Primary. You know, the thing in which Democrats get to choose the best Democrat. During his “I’m bailing” press conference, Specter explained how the Democratic leadership promised to support him and raise money for him during the 2010 election. So, they have decided to choose a Republican instead of a Democrat because the Republicans were going to choose a crazier Republican. So, the Republicans will get the politician that most represents them (crazy) and the Democrats will get the politician that least represents them. Welcome to completely failed leadership and the usurping of Democracy.

In an exciting example of the future Democratic Senator Arlen Specter, he explained that he would not support Obama’s choice to head the Office of Legal Counsel. He also reiterated that he would not support the Employee Free Choice Act, which is sort of cause #1 for unions – you know, labor, also known as the backbone of the Democratic Party. So, that’s good. They picked up a new guy who is against the backbone of the party. His first vote as a Democrat was awesome. He voted against Obama’s budget. Good work, Democrats, all around.

This weekend he made it very clear where he stands.

GREGORY: It was reported this week that when you met with the president, you said, “I will be a loyal democrat. I support your agenda.” Let me test that on probably one of the most important areas of his agenda, and that’s health care. Would you support health care reform that puts up a government run public plan to compete with a private plan issued by a private insurance company?

SPECTER: No. And you misquote me, David. I did not say I would be a loyal Democrat. I did not say that. And last week, after I said I was changing parties, I voted against the budget because the budget has a way to pass health care with 51 votes, which undermines a basic Senate institution to require 60 votes to impose closure on key issues.…I did not say I am a loyal Democrat.

Point made. You’re not a loyal Democrat. You’re a “Kinda Democrat.” A kinda, sorta, whatever it takes to stay in the Senate for another term Democrat. Which is great, because that is exactly what the Democrats need.

They should have let Specter swing in the wind. He was clearly going to lose the Republican Primary. It doesn’t matter if he is a Democrat or a Republican until Franken is seated, anyway. He’s not going to vote with Democrats on a shitload of issues, so supporting him in the Pennsylvania primary is completely idiotic. No promises of that nature should have ever been made – especially since it undemocratic. But, what do the Democrats care about what their base wants and democracy? They don’t. It’s about the party and at this point the party seems to be run by idiots.

Enjoy the failure. It’s Joe Lieberman II, Electric Boogaloo.


FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday and Friday for more from FearTheReaper


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