Posts Tagged ‘Pennsylvania’
Hit the Road Arlen
Today, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter became a Democrat. Actually, that’s not quite right. In my mind he always was a Democrat. Specter, who voted for Obama’s bloated stimulus package, has time and again failed to live up to the values that make our party great—discipline and the ability to vote no to stuff that Obama proposes. He had no right to leave the party just because we were trying to get a more conservative politician to run against him in the Republican primary. The people of Pennsylvania voted for a Republican Senator and that’s what they deserve. The good news is we have managed to purge our party of all but two disenting voices—The Laverne and Shirley of the Capitol Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine.
Now personally this may be good for Specter. He probably gains a chance to return to Washington for another term, but what does he lose? To answer that, I composed a list of those things that any good Republican would miss about the GOP:
10. Rush Limbaugh’s producer’s voice mail number
9. Michael Steele’s Def Conservative Poetry on C-Span 8
8. David Vitter’s porn collection
7. Immunity from Michelle Bachman’s “He’s probably a Muslim” list
6. Senate Tea Bagging Parties (Wow that never gets old)
5. Weekly Shirts vs. Skins basketball games
4. Being on the same side as Joe Lieberman I think. Wait, no actually hmm yeah. I think that they’re on opposite sides. I can’t keep track.
3. Making up fake notes from John McCain to pass to Lindsey Graham
2. Hiding Jim Bunning’s briefcase and pretending to help him look for it.
1. Invitations to Rupert Murdoch’s September 19th Talk Like a Pirate Day Party
The Republicans will survive. We will remain a big tent party because of all the people who are economic policies now have living with their families in big tents. Mister Specter on the other hand, let’s just say its his loss.
