ARLEN SPECTOR - THE MONTY HALL OF THE U.S. SENATE!
Barack Hussein Obama promised to be a post-partisan president, which is why he turned right around and welcomed Arlen Spector the "kind of sort of" Republican from Pennsylvania who defected yesterday to become a "kind of sort of" Democrat, thus demonstrating that the Democratic Party is less interested in ideology than it is in power, gotten any way they can get it! I'm sure many promises were made to 79 year old Spector to make the party switch and he is so enamored of his "career" as a Senator that he was willing to succumb to the blandishments regardless of how corrupting those blandishments and promises might be.
How did we get to this point? I have more respect for Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman who both quietly maintain their party affiliation, no matter how faithless that political party has been to them. Joe Lieberman may vote more frequently with the Republicans than he does with his Democratic brothers, but he remains steadfastly a Democrat.
At the time of our nation's founding, the position of U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator was never envisioned as a career choice. Come to think of it, on career day when I was growing up, nobody in my very diverse elementary school class stood up and opined that they were entranced with the idea of amassing power and a following which would then lead to them making a career as a United States Senator - or other variety of politician. H.L. Mencken once opined that "A professional politician is a professionally dishonest man!" Mencken was right far too often!
How did we get to this point? I have more respect for Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman who both quietly maintain their party affiliation, no matter how faithless that political party has been to them. Joe Lieberman may vote more frequently with the Republicans than he does with his Democratic brothers, but he remains steadfastly a Democrat.
At the time of our nation's founding, the position of U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator was never envisioned as a career choice. Come to think of it, on career day when I was growing up, nobody in my very diverse elementary school class stood up and opined that they were entranced with the idea of amassing power and a following which would then lead to them making a career as a United States Senator - or other variety of politician. H.L. Mencken once opined that "A professional politician is a professionally dishonest man!" Mencken was right far too often!
No comments:
Post a Comment