The SCOTUS ruling in Citizens United vs. The FEC was the most damaging ruling in the history of our republic. It effectively hands the reigns of our democracy to unelected, un-American transnational corporations, many owned by The Peoples Republic of China. Chief Justice Roberts and those justices that ruled with him ought to be impeached for lying to The Congress at the least and at best tried for treason.
He talks about being paid to make tough votes. Correct. And when it came to a Senate Trial for Bill Clinton, he couldnt even decide one way or the other. Regardless of whether he thought Clinton guilty or not, he was unable to commit and make a decision. That, Sen. Specter, was a gutless stand.
@demmmmm1 People earning 250,000 or 1 million or 2... are not rich nor Warren Buffett. I mean, Buffett can donare his billions to the government or private institutions.
@xaviqaz Everyone I know making more than $250k is doing darned well. The one person I know who makes over $1million/year is laughing his ass off right now. Shocked that he's going to continue to get his $90,000.00 tax cut for another two years. He didn't need it in the first place, and is now just rolling on the floor.
He won't hire new people with it. He will buy tax free property in the Cayman's. There's a reason tax cuts for the rich was last on the 'stimulate the economy' list
@demmmmm1 Two weeks ago the Swiss said NO to a minimum tax of 22% for people doing >250k francs. There you have an example with low federal taxes, strong fiscal competition between cantons (leading to higher efficiency), best standards of living (lowest unemployment, poverty and crime rates) and their rich do not "escape". If federal taxes are low, government and redistribution of wealth are limited. Low means 11.5% on personal income and 8.5% for corporations, limited by the Swiss Constitution.
@xaviqaz They also mandate federal health insurance and don't spend billions on worthless wars. Their way of doing things is far too "socialist" for our right-wingers. So, I'd be careful suggesting that we become more like Switzerland - you might have to switch parties.
@demmmmm1 Wars are socialist. And i don't oppose insurance mandate, or even more socialized health care, if immigration is properly controlled. Anyway, three years ago the Swiss voted against having a single national social security system.
@xaviqaz Interesting way to think about wars. In a way, you're right. I'm not sure most Republicans think of it that way, given their attraction to war.
The Swiss system is complicated. There is a federal social security program, but it's operated in a decentralized way. All citizens are required to have various 'social security' insurances, which are managed regionally, I think. Even foreigners who choose to retire there on their savings have to buy into the program.
He's such a disgrace to the public office. Him and all of his other "friends in D.C." are all destroying this country a little bit each and every day. Good bye and good riddance Specter!!!! Nah, nah, nah, nah...nah, nah, nah, nah...hey, hey...goodbye....
@akg2016 yes I know that he use to call himself a "republican" but so did a lot of other democrats. just because he or any other "now" democrat calls themselves one doesn't justify his "so called" public policy decisions. and yes as a matter of fact I do understand his speech. thank you very much! He and all of his other "friends" are doing a might fine job of running this country into the ground. If you can't see that, then you are terribly blind. have a merry Christmas!
Pompous, detached-from-reality ass. A "closing argument"? What a pretentious arrogant jackass this man is. You switched parties because for someone without principles such as yourself, all that mattered was that you remain in office. That blew up in your face, and now you're just a warped, frustrated old man, without the least bit of self-awareness that would show you the error of your ways and help you improve as a person. Good riddance!
This is yet another stark contrast between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party:
the Democratic Party has many moderates and centrists; in the Republican Party, the leadership has eliminated almost all of its moderates and centrists.
There used to be many liberal Republicans. The RNC launched a jihad against them and literally against the word itself.
America is full of people whose views are very moderate who, as voters, are still registered with the Republican Party. I have no idea why they are still registered with the Republican Party.
The voters are still the same. The party in Washington has moved -far-, -far- to the right.
I'm not even sure you can call pro-corporate/anti-consumer or pro-super-rich/anti-middle-class right-wing. Even the super-rich aren't happy with them and corporations shouldn't be. I'm not sure who the current RNC is fighting -for-. It's just anti-almost-everything and bad for everyone else.
I don't even pay attention to what they say anymore; I just look at how they vote (and how they filibuster).
[And the gulf between what what moderate Republican voters believe and how they vote is just weird. I think what it is is that, they don't have any interest in politics . . . so they honestly don't understand how much the Republican Party has changed in the past thirty years. It's not my granddad's Republican Party. It's mutated into something that has become a threat to us all. They are simply employees of their biggest contributors. That's corruption.]
Arlen Specter represents the worst of Washington D.C. politics. He has spent decades doing whatever it takes to keep himself in power, sell out to the banks and other special interests groups, sell out the American people's freedoms, switch parties...Why is it that even though 80% of baby boomers do not believe Specter's magic bullet theory or that their favorite President, JFK, was killed by a lone gunman, that generation has never demanded the truth or done what it takes to clean house in DC
Senator Specter is right, of course. There WERE MODERATES in the GOP of the not-so-distant-past. The northeasten Republicans - self-described fiscally conservative and socially moderate-to-liberal- were an integral part of the big tent not so long ago. Now, save a surprisingly moderate Sen. Scott Brown and occasionally Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, they've all but vanished in the Senate. And there are NONE in the House.
Write it down: Come 2012, the GOP WILL regret becoming so extreme.
@walkinghorseman1 - You really think the "GOP WILL regret becoming so extreme" in the same way the Democrats are now regretting becoming so extreme? Sore losers are the epitome of pathetic, and hypocritical sore losers are even worse. Specter is nothing but self-serving, political opportunist . . . his words are as irrelevent as he is.
@crunchyorange Actually, I think the Democrats will - and should - regret being so spineless up until this point..... In my opinion, time and time again they have rolled over and capitulated to the Republicans when they SHOULD HAVE stood up on the courage of their convictions. Extreme? By that, if you mean in the same way the GOP has gone off the "conservative" nutball cliff....then, no...... if anything, the Dems have not been liberal enough!
He's such a cry baby :'( Him and all of the other demoRats and cronies in D.C. have destroyed this country. They are all such ignoramuses Good bye and good riddance!!!!!!!!!!!
@xxashyy I hear him doing something that hasnt happened in a long time. He is outing some of the elitist officials that have carried on the corruption as usual. Corperations have bought our government both dems and reps. Its a goddamn shame. Sore loser or not, this is probably pissing off a large number of people in the highest seats of powers. Will this help? Doubt it. But more of this posturing is happening. Maybe are great grandchildren will have it better than before them, not a fkn chance.
This man is piece of human trash. He sold out the USA for his own benefit and was involved in the Warren Commission Coverup. He will burn in eternal hell like the piece of shit he is for the JFK coverup.
Man, it's funny how Savage gets so fired up about someone this boring.
theboombody 5 days ago
I hate how I have such a hated name
metaltera86 3 weeks ago
@metaltera86 what name
TheJasonDR 1 week ago
Arlen Specter: Warren Commission member and the man responsible for the 'single bullet theory' with respect to JFK's assassination.
bapyou 1 year ago
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if you speak the truth, have a foot in the sturup.
mjl1817 1 year ago
It’s too bad that Senator Specter chose his last day to stand up against and to define the clear and present danger that has befallen our nation.
Coklan 1 year ago
The SCOTUS ruling in Citizens United vs. The FEC was the most damaging ruling in the history of our republic. It effectively hands the reigns of our democracy to unelected, un-American transnational corporations, many owned by The Peoples Republic of China. Chief Justice Roberts and those justices that ruled with him ought to be impeached for lying to The Congress at the least and at best tried for treason.
Coklan 1 year ago
He talks about being paid to make tough votes. Correct. And when it came to a Senate Trial for Bill Clinton, he couldnt even decide one way or the other. Regardless of whether he thought Clinton guilty or not, he was unable to commit and make a decision. That, Sen. Specter, was a gutless stand.
kachina25 1 year ago
donate, sorry
xaviqaz 1 year ago
Alien devices have blocked my attention. I can't make it pass 1:30 ROTFLOL!
LaProfeVirtual 1 year ago
it's like he's reading his 7th gade history report before the class room.
loofshrink 1 year ago
Arlen seems like a selfish old man.
Politicians are usually in the game more for themselves and obtaining more control than they are for the good of the country.
Arlen is only concerned with Arlen. That is how all the scumbag politicians are.
bkdmd 1 year ago
Question:
What have Republicans fought FOR over the past two years?
Take your time. (Roll Jeopardy music)
They've been AGAINST most everything, but what have they fought the hardest FOR?
Tax cuts for the rich and deregulation is about all I can think of. Nothing in there about helping average Americans. Nada.
demmmmm1 1 year ago
@demmmmm1 People earning 250,000 or 1 million or 2... are not rich nor Warren Buffett. I mean, Buffett can donare his billions to the government or private institutions.
xaviqaz 1 year ago
@xaviqaz Everyone I know making more than $250k is doing darned well. The one person I know who makes over $1million/year is laughing his ass off right now. Shocked that he's going to continue to get his $90,000.00 tax cut for another two years. He didn't need it in the first place, and is now just rolling on the floor.
He won't hire new people with it. He will buy tax free property in the Cayman's. There's a reason tax cuts for the rich was last on the 'stimulate the economy' list
demmmmm1 1 year ago
@demmmmm1 Two weeks ago the Swiss said NO to a minimum tax of 22% for people doing >250k francs. There you have an example with low federal taxes, strong fiscal competition between cantons (leading to higher efficiency), best standards of living (lowest unemployment, poverty and crime rates) and their rich do not "escape". If federal taxes are low, government and redistribution of wealth are limited. Low means 11.5% on personal income and 8.5% for corporations, limited by the Swiss Constitution.
xaviqaz 1 year ago
@xaviqaz They also mandate federal health insurance and don't spend billions on worthless wars. Their way of doing things is far too "socialist" for our right-wingers. So, I'd be careful suggesting that we become more like Switzerland - you might have to switch parties.
demmmmm1 1 year ago
@demmmmm1 Wars are socialist. And i don't oppose insurance mandate, or even more socialized health care, if immigration is properly controlled. Anyway, three years ago the Swiss voted against having a single national social security system.
xaviqaz 1 year ago
@xaviqaz Interesting way to think about wars. In a way, you're right. I'm not sure most Republicans think of it that way, given their attraction to war.
The Swiss system is complicated. There is a federal social security program, but it's operated in a decentralized way. All citizens are required to have various 'social security' insurances, which are managed regionally, I think. Even foreigners who choose to retire there on their savings have to buy into the program.
Anywho. Merry xmas
demmmmm1 1 year ago
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He's such a disgrace to the public office. Him and all of his other "friends in D.C." are all destroying this country a little bit each and every day. Good bye and good riddance Specter!!!! Nah, nah, nah, nah...nah, nah, nah, nah...hey, hey...goodbye....
Tkdkid9 1 year ago
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Tkdkid9 1 year ago
@akg2016 yes I know that he use to call himself a "republican" but so did a lot of other democrats. just because he or any other "now" democrat calls themselves one doesn't justify his "so called" public policy decisions. and yes as a matter of fact I do understand his speech. thank you very much! He and all of his other "friends" are doing a might fine job of running this country into the ground. If you can't see that, then you are terribly blind. have a merry Christmas!
Tkdkid9 1 year ago
Pompous, detached-from-reality ass. A "closing argument"? What a pretentious arrogant jackass this man is. You switched parties because for someone without principles such as yourself, all that mattered was that you remain in office. That blew up in your face, and now you're just a warped, frustrated old man, without the least bit of self-awareness that would show you the error of your ways and help you improve as a person. Good riddance!
joiadbvjaw9384 1 year ago
My God I hate the United States Senate. The list of Senators from both parties that Arlen read off nearly made me want to wretch.
Nick83Fairfax 1 year ago
This is yet another stark contrast between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party:
the Democratic Party has many moderates and centrists; in the Republican Party, the leadership has eliminated almost all of its moderates and centrists.
There used to be many liberal Republicans. The RNC launched a jihad against them and literally against the word itself.
ReliableInsider 1 year ago
@ReliableInsider Please, there are moderates on both sides if you bother to take off your ideological blinders.
Nick83Fairfax 1 year ago
@Nick83Fairfax
America is full of people whose views are very moderate who, as voters, are still registered with the Republican Party. I have no idea why they are still registered with the Republican Party.
The voters are still the same. The party in Washington has moved -far-, -far- to the right.
ReliableInsider 1 year ago
@Nick83Fairfax
I'm not even sure you can call pro-corporate/anti-consumer or pro-super-rich/anti-middle-class right-wing. Even the super-rich aren't happy with them and corporations shouldn't be. I'm not sure who the current RNC is fighting -for-. It's just anti-almost-everything and bad for everyone else.
I don't even pay attention to what they say anymore; I just look at how they vote (and how they filibuster).
ReliableInsider 1 year ago
@Nick83Fairfax
The gulf between what they (Republican voters) say they believe and what they actually believe is staggering.
ReliableInsider 1 year ago
@Nick83Fairfax
[And the gulf between what what moderate Republican voters believe and how they vote is just weird. I think what it is is that, they don't have any interest in politics . . . so they honestly don't understand how much the Republican Party has changed in the past thirty years. It's not my granddad's Republican Party. It's mutated into something that has become a threat to us all. They are simply employees of their biggest contributors. That's corruption.]
ReliableInsider 1 year ago
Arlen Specter represents the worst of Washington D.C. politics. He has spent decades doing whatever it takes to keep himself in power, sell out to the banks and other special interests groups, sell out the American people's freedoms, switch parties...Why is it that even though 80% of baby boomers do not believe Specter's magic bullet theory or that their favorite President, JFK, was killed by a lone gunman, that generation has never demanded the truth or done what it takes to clean house in DC
avileo21 1 year ago
Senator Specter is right, of course. There WERE MODERATES in the GOP of the not-so-distant-past. The northeasten Republicans - self-described fiscally conservative and socially moderate-to-liberal- were an integral part of the big tent not so long ago. Now, save a surprisingly moderate Sen. Scott Brown and occasionally Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, they've all but vanished in the Senate. And there are NONE in the House.
Write it down: Come 2012, the GOP WILL regret becoming so extreme.
walkinghorseman1 1 year ago
@walkinghorseman1 - You really think the "GOP WILL regret becoming so extreme" in the same way the Democrats are now regretting becoming so extreme? Sore losers are the epitome of pathetic, and hypocritical sore losers are even worse. Specter is nothing but self-serving, political opportunist . . . his words are as irrelevent as he is.
crunchyorange 1 year ago
@crunchyorange Actually, I think the Democrats will - and should - regret being so spineless up until this point..... In my opinion, time and time again they have rolled over and capitulated to the Republicans when they SHOULD HAVE stood up on the courage of their convictions. Extreme? By that, if you mean in the same way the GOP has gone off the "conservative" nutball cliff....then, no...... if anything, the Dems have not been liberal enough!
walkinghorseman1 1 year ago
A very poor speech. But he makes some excellent points. America is broken and the Republicans are prevented it from being fixed. Country first.
Rodney92 1 year ago
He's such a cry baby :'( Him and all of the other demoRats and cronies in D.C. have destroyed this country. They are all such ignoramuses Good bye and good riddance!!!!!!!!!!!
Tkdkid9 1 year ago
@Tkdkid9 you know he used to be a Republican...
for a long
long
time..
and you clearly don't understand his speech, its a critique on how the senate proceeds,
not public policy.
akg2016 1 year ago
Maybe a sore loser....but he is sharing some truth that soars right over the reich wing Amerikkkaners.
He is a worthless oportunist.....probably from all those years as a GOP goat.
HulksHeroes 1 year ago
Specter was always the posturing opportunist. The democrats didn't even want this clown. He's a sore loser.
xxashyy 1 year ago
@xxashyy I hear him doing something that hasnt happened in a long time. He is outing some of the elitist officials that have carried on the corruption as usual. Corperations have bought our government both dems and reps. Its a goddamn shame. Sore loser or not, this is probably pissing off a large number of people in the highest seats of powers. Will this help? Doubt it. But more of this posturing is happening. Maybe are great grandchildren will have it better than before them, not a fkn chance.
bd1965 1 year ago
@xxashyy i dont think as much a sore loser, but he just doesn't give a damn anymore.
akg2016 1 year ago
2:26
SUDDENLY, JOHN KERRY!
Thesterness 1 year ago 2
Fuck you Specter, fuck you buddy.
katey1dog 1 year ago
This man is piece of human trash. He sold out the USA for his own benefit and was involved in the Warren Commission Coverup. He will burn in eternal hell like the piece of shit he is for the JFK coverup.
ryno99 1 year ago
The Republicans hated him, so he switched to the Democrat Party, and the Democrats hated him. Hey Arlen, I think it's just you...
Conservative1001BG 1 year ago
Don't go away mad. Just go away.
bkdmd 1 year ago
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Bye bye Arley. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.
gsuitter 1 year ago