Senator Specter: The Man Who Didn’t Know.

Republican perverts, calling bullshit, politics, right wing dingalings February 23rd, 2007

For the third day in a row, I called Senator Specter’s office to find out exactly how it came to be that a fixture on the Veterans Affairs Committee since 1981 could be wholly ignorant of how our soldiers are being treated at Walter Reed Hospital. And for the third day in a row, I was told that the Senator is “now aware” of the problems, and my concerns would be expressed.

Well pardon me, but that’s just a load of malarkey. He’s “now aware”? Salon was reporting on conditions in Walter Reed two years ago, and Specter is only “now aware”? Is that anywhere close to acceptable?

In any other job in the world this kind of negligence would get you fired. Senator Specter takes home $165,200 each year from the Senate: shouldn’t he be aware of the populations he’s representing on Committee?

Thank God he’s not an ocologist: after giving you a clean bill of health year after year, Specter would let your tumor metastasize, and the only way he’d offer a diagnosis would be if you visited another doctor and came back to complain.

Or a mechanic: after your engine seized, you’d find out the oil hadn’t been changed since 1981. “Well, I’m aware NOW!” Specter would say, “so why are you complaining?”

Senator Specter earned $165,200, on the taxpayers’ dime, sending our kids off to be shot and mangled in Iraq. But it’s clear that when they come home, Specter could give a crap about their well-being.

Maybe it’s not his fault. After all,the Senator has been fighting cancer, and has spoken up for medical marijuana. Those bong hits can really do a number on your short term memory…

One Response to “Senator Specter: The Man Who Didn’t Know.”

  1. Brendan Calling - I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation. But I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. » Arlen Specter’s Agenda Today Says:
    March 20th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

    [...] course, expecting Arlen to acknowledge their sacrifice is probably a little unreasonable: after all, if he could sit on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee since 1981 and be throughly igno…, why should I expect him to offer even the most basic and simple expression of gratitude to those [...]

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