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Specter’s Graceless Exit

The Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney notes just how mean-spirited Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D., Pa.) farewell speech delivered today was:

He [Specter] attacked the “activist” Supreme Court for infringing on Congressional prerogative — this is the man who killed Robert Bork’s nomination out of fear Bork would overturn Roe v. Wade. It’s hard to think of a decision in the last 50 years that was more “activist” and trampled more on legislative prerogative, but Specter has called Roe ”inviolate.”

Speaking of Bork, this was where Specter showed his petty meanness. He gratuitously brought up Bork in his speech, saying, “Justice Bork — excuse me … Judge Bork.”

Specter, who switched parties to avoid a likely primary challenge from now Senator-elect Pat Toomey, also had harsh words for any would-be primary challengers: “Eating or defeating your own is a form of sophisticated cannibalism.”

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Dave From Tampa
   12/21/10 17:36

As the kids say nowadays. You mad?

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   12/21/10 17:36

Does anyone doubt that Mike Castle, had he been elected to the Senate, would be just as bad if not worse?

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   12/21/10 17:39

I'm ashamed at how the thought of him gasping for life all alone like Jacob Marley seems just to me.

Who knows, maybe he got like that by being infected early in life by someone just the same as he has himself become.

God save us from a life like Arlen Specter's.

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   12/21/10 17:39

"Just as bad if not worse" still puts you one person closer to control of the chamber.

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Mrs. Betty
   12/21/10 17:40

I cried as I read this. Such meanness! Such cruelty!

Lord, we ask that you be with Judge Bork during this terrible time. Help him to recover from Senator Specter's wicked meanie remarks. In the name of yer precious son we pray.

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bucknelldad
   12/21/10 17:44

if this is the price I have to pay to help Sen. Specter exit the Senate -- however ungraciously -- it is a small price. His successor will a vast improvement. Good riddance, Sen. Specter, maybe you can write and hawk your next book defending the single-bullet theory that launched -- and symbolizes -- your insipid, pathetic career.

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CTCharlie
   12/21/10 17:45

Oh, Arlen, you're so hilarious. Don't let the door hit you in the vag*@a on the way out.

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   12/21/10 17:45

I say "Merry Christmas" and "please don't let the door hit you on the way out" to Arlen Specter. With any luck, we will never hear from him again.

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   12/21/10 17:48

SPECTER BELONGS TO THE SPECIAL CATEGORY OF HUMAS KNOWN AS P****S OF S**T.
THAT'S AS GOOD AS IT GET'S.
WHAT A SHAME AMERICA ELECTS LOWLIFES LIKE HIM

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 ds
   12/21/10 18:09

Arlen Specter gave a "farewell speech?" To whom? Who the heck cares?

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   12/21/10 18:09

What a megalomaniacal hypocrite. Good riddance!

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Joseph Vey
   12/21/10 18:11

I have to admit that I don't know a great deal about Mike Castle, but, being a resident of PA, I am all too familiar with ole Arlen. What I do know about Mr Castle would lead me to believe that he, a centrist R has little to do with the totally amoral, all-Arlen-all-the-time Spector, the most loathed man, along with Joe Sestak, on the Hill. Let's leave the demonization and exaggeration to the D"s. Credibility really IS important.

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Danzmonster192
   12/21/10 18:13

Would you expect anything less from Snarlin' Arlen? A classless, self-centered man who does not deserve any honors other than for helping to drive our country into a ditch and dividing people

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 sam
   12/21/10 18:15

"Eating or defeating your own.." Except that scum like Specter are nobody's.

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   12/21/10 18:15

The R or D next to your name does not make you "one of our own". Legislating in a manner consistent with our values does.

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   12/21/10 18:29

"Eating or defeating your own is a form of sophisticated cannibalism."

Claiming to have been one of our own. That's a knee-slapper.

I am truly going to miss voting against that guy. The only Democrats I have ever voted for were his opponents.

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   12/21/10 18:41

"Arlen Specter gave a "farewell speech?" To whom?"

Uh... to the C-SPAN camera man?

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   12/21/10 18:55

I guess he would know the pitfalls of primary challenges. He did, after all, move to the Democrat party to avoid being primaried - and got primaried there by Sestak anyway.

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   12/21/10 18:56

The last gasp of an irrelevant political opportunist

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   12/21/10 18:59

Good riddance to bad rubbish

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