Politiks As Usual: In The News 10/15/12

 A Grand Experiment to Rein In Climate Change

Former Sen. Arlen Specter Dies At 82 

Obama Team Vows President Will Have Aggressive Debate, Put Bain on the Table

Catholic Bishops Challenge Biden on Birth Control Rule

Mugged and Ann Coulter Derangement Syndrome, Part 2

That Bus Is Rolling . . .Hillary's Headed Under?

Jenny McCarthy and the Fall of Books

‘Gospel of Jesus’ Wife’ Comes Under Suspicion of Forgery, Media Bury

USA Today Shocker: 'Obama, Romney Nearly Tied in Electoral College'

University Official 'Villianized' for Conservative Opinion

Pricey Election Bails Out Postal Service

Industry Sues Over Sugary-Drinks Crackdown

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: I Was Biden’s Debate Coach

Arlen Specter's Defeat Is Bad News For Obama

Newsmax.com:

The defeat of Sen. Arlen Specter, the longest serving senator in Pennsylvania history, marks the end of a political era.

It also proves that Washington politicians that lived by the rule of political expediency are finished, as far as American voters are concerned.

The Specter defeat also is a blow to Barack Obama’s political power. Specter strongly backed Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package and his massive healthcare overhaul.

Though Obama strongly backed Specter, and put his political muscle behind the turncoat Republican, along with the powerful political machine of Democratic Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, Democratic voters sent a jarring message Tuesday night by picking maverick and conservative Joe Sestak as their nominee.

Initially, Specter's April 2009 abandonment of the Republican Party appeared to be a Houdini-like escape.

It enabled him to avoid a primary slugfest against GOP challenger and former Congressman Pat Toomey, a contest that polls showed Specter losing.

Specter believed he had an ace in the hole. He could trade his support in the Senate for Democratic support. In return, he would give President Obama and Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid the coveted 60th vote to head off a GOP filibuster over healthcare reform.

The deal was set, but it ignored one crucial player: the voters of Pennsylvania.

Traitor. Don't let the door hit ya on the way out.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 7/20/09

Obama Health Plan To Cover 12 Million Illegals

Palin Says Alaska Tour Is Thanks, "Not Farewell"

Conservative Group Offers To Sell Public Endorsement For $2M

Bailout Recipients Were Major Donors To Obama

House Health Bill Expands Tax Benefits To Same-Sex Partners

Trouble Looms For Arlen Specter

Two-Thirds Of Iowans Want To Vote On Marriage

Violence Against Pro-Lifers Continues

Obama's Homeland Security Secretary Supports Weakening Post-9/11 Reforms

NAACP Still Has Much To Do; Obama's "White Speech" To NAACP

India Says No Dice To Global Warming Hoax

Inspector General Fired By Obama Lawsuit To Be Reinstated

Politiks As Usual: In The News 5/11/09

'Pedophile Protection Act': What's Next For Hate Crimes?

Obama Wins Business Support For Health Care Reform

Last SLA Inmate Released From California Prison

Homosexual Obama Adviser Hurls Insults At The Pope

Maine Governor Signs Bill Allowing Gay Marriage

Republicans Need Washingtons, Not Specters

Chris Matthews Portrays GOP As Anti-Science

Oklahoma House Approves Ten Commandments Monument

U.S. Now Has 2,532 Swine Flu Cases

Nancy Pelosi Makes Surprise Trip To Iraq

Talking The Talk About Money

NPR Plugs Elizabeth Edwards Book, But Some Say She 'Perpetrated A Fraud'

Michael Steele Quote of the Day!

"I'm sure his mama didn't raise him that way."

- the RNC chairman, on PA Senator Arlen Specter's defection to the Democrats this past week. Steele accused Specter of "flipping the bird" to the Senate GOP leadership.

Arlen Specter Finally Comes Out Of The Closet

YahooNews.com:

Veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania disclosed plans Tuesday to switch parties, a move intended to boost his chances of winning re-election next year that also will push Democrats within one seat of a 60-vote filibuster-resistant majority.

"I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans," Specter said in a statement posted on a Web site devoted to Pennsylvania politics and confirmed by his office. Several Senate officials said a formal announcement was expected later in the day or Wednesday.

President Barack Obama called Specter almost immediately after he was informed of the decision to say the Democratic Party was "thrilled to have you," according to a White House official. Spurned Republicans said his defection was motivated by ambition, not principle.

Now he finds his "political philosophy more in line with Democrats"--is he kidding or has his old age just made him senile? Specter's been a huge blot on conservative ideology for years now. He's been a Democrat's best friend forever, we saw it again when he voted to support Barry's trillion-dollar stimulus package last month. And now he's pretending to act on "principles", when this is really about getting re-elected. What a phony. If Pennsylvanian's are smart enough to finally catch on to Specter's act, next year he doesn't even make out of the Dem primaries.

John Murtha Cleared In Marines Defamation Lawsuit

Newsmax.com:

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Rep. John Murtha cannot be sued for accusing U.S. Marines of murdering Iraqi civilians "in cold blood," remarks that sparked outrage among conservative commentators.

The appeals court in Washington dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by a Marine who led the squad in the attack. The judges agreed with Murtha that he was immune from the lawsuit because he was acting in his official role as a lawmaker when he made the comments to reporters.

Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich of Meriden, Conn., claimed Murtha damaged his reputation by saying the squad he was leading engaged in "cold-blooded murder and war crimes" in Haditha, Iraq, on Nov. 19, 2005.

At a Capitol Hill news conference in May 2006, Murtha predicted that a Pentagon war crimes investigation would show the Marines killed dozens of innocent Iraqi civilians in Haditha.

Military prosecutors have said two dozen Iraqis, including women and children, were killed in Haditha after one Marine died and two others were wounded by a roadside bomb. Wuterich is charged with voluntary manslaughter and other allegations, the only person still facing charges in the attack.

He has pleaded not guilty. He is accused of ordering his men to clear several houses with grenades and gunfire, leading to the civilian deaths.

Republicans and conservatives accused Murtha, a decorated Vietnam veteran and retired Marine Reserves colonel, of convicting the Marines before the investigation was concluded and fueling enemy attacks in retaliation. GOP challengers tried to use the comments against Murtha in the 2006 and 2008 campaigns, but his constituents overwhelmingly re-elected the congressman who has represented them since 1974.

Murtha, who is opposed to the Iraq war, has said he made the comments to draw attention to the pressure put on troops in Iraq and efforts to cover up the incident. He did not mention Wuterich or any other Marines by name.

A three-judge panel on U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that Murtha could not be sued under the 1988 Westfall Act, which gives federal employees immunity from lawsuits arising out of acts they undertake in the course of their official duties.

Now that Murtha has basically been granted immunity to say what the hell he wants, you can bet there'll be even more outrageous comments coming down the pipe from this idiot. Bottom line, will Pennsylvanian's ever see the light and get rid of the political stains that are John Murtha and Arlen Specter? Or will they each have to retire first?

Politiks As Usual: In The News 3/23/09

On '60 Minutes,' Obama Rebukes Dick Cheney Criticism

We've Legalized Theft In America

Obama's Toxic Asset Buyback Plan Could Top $1 Trillion

Arlen Specter Welcomes All Rivals

CNN Parrots Mexican Claims That U.S. Guns Fuel Drug Wars

Florida Woman Admits to Forcing Daughter To Abort, Dumping Grandchild In Trash

Parade Names Mugabe World's Worst Dictator, Ignores Carter's Role

Tax Day Tea Parties: Over 1,000 Planned

Barney Frank Calls Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia A 'Homophobe'

Hugo Chavez Denounces Obama As 'Ignorant'

Reality TV Star Jade Goody Loses Cancer Fight

Minn. Supreme Court Denies Al Franken's Attempt To Steal Senate Seat

Good news for Norm Coleman, his freak opponent, Al Franken, had his attempt to bully his way into the Senate rightfully denied:

Democrat Al Franken has lost a bid to force Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Secretary of State Mark Ritchie to sign an election certificate that would allow him to be seated in the Senate.

For months, Franken and Republican rival Norm Coleman have been embroiled in legal battles over who actually won the Minnesota Senate election in November. While the results initially showed a Coleman victory, a recount found that Franken led by 225 votes.

Before the recount, Coleman called for Franken to concede the election; afterward, he took the matter to the courts. Franken has also filed legal challenges. Both sides have sued to have rejected absentee ballots – at least, the ones most likely to favor them – counted. Coleman has tried to have the recount results thrown out.

Following today’s decision, the Coleman camp sent out a release trumpeting the “wise ruling will ensure that Harry Reid, Al Franken and Chuck Schumer cannot short-circuit Minnesota Law in their partisan power play.”

With RINO's like Arlen Specter, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe turning their backs on conservative principles recently, the need for Norm Coleman to win this race has become urgent.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 2/9/09

Senator Richard Shelby Says Obama's Stimulus Plan Will Lead To 'Disaster'

Crisis, Catastrophe: Are These Words Of Hope?

SCHIP Enables Bad Parenting, Benefits Illegal Aliens

'Today Show' Suggests Single Moms Only Need Dad's Money

Child Porn Pandemic As Police Estimate 600,000 Americans Trade Child Porn Online

New York Liberals Love Watching Will Ferrell's Bush Derangement Syndrome

Republican Defectors Facing Backlash For Stimulus Support

Obama's Justice Nominee's Porn Agenda Raises Alarms

Editorial: President Bush Had Nothing To Do With Financial Crisis

White House Grabs 2010 Census Power

Ruth Ginsburg, Diagnosed With Pancreatic Cancer, Plans Quick Return To SCOTUS

Tom Coburn Takes Away Barack's "Gift" To Hollywood Liberals

Tom Coburn is my new hero:

Senate Republicans yesterday stripped a special $246 million tax break for Hollywood producers from President Obama's stimulus package.

"This isn't stimulus. This is a gift," said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who wrote the amendment to strike out the giveaway for some of the Democrats' most generous political supporters.

"It's not going to stimulate the economy at all," he said. "What it's going to do is line the pockets of very wealthy individuals already not experiencing the downside of the economy."

The 52-45 vote was largely along party lines, with nearly every Republican voting to remove the Hollywood tax break, joined by 13 Democrats and independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman.

Under the measure, Hollywood moguls would have been allowed to write off half the production and filming costs of big-budget films and TV shows.

Backed by Walt Disney and the Motion Picture Association of America, the provision amounted to an estimated $246 million tax break over 11 years.

Of course RINO Arlen Specter was one of the few Republicans to sign off on BO's bogus stimulus plan. Specter is an embarrassment, with the likes of his kind the GOP needs Norm Coleman to defeat Al Franken BAD in Minnesota, thank goodness Coleman received some really good news today.