OUCH
That is one harsh headline. Probably a little harsher than I would have gone with, and considering my predilection toward bile, that’s saying something.
I’d like to make a few clarifications that apparently weren’t incorporated into the article, probably because the deadline was really tight, and my original piece was, quite literally, a piece of shit.
Specter actually does not look like a progressive Democrat, and frankly, neither do more a few of his Democratic colleagues. Bob Casey is hardly progressive: this is a guy who would gladly suck off Wayne LaPierre and the rest of the NRA if it mean another campaign donation. Bob also doesn’t believe adults should have reproductive rights, and believe embryos are more deserving of protection than people with Parkinsons disease. That’s not progressive: that’s “knuckle-dragging”. And Pat Murphy? Progressive? Don’t make me laugh. The dude is a blue dog democrat. yeah, Murph will let you have an abortion and won’t kick you out of the army for being gay, but he also believes in warrantless wiretapping and giving enormous corporations like Verizon protection for breaking the law. And he votedto continue funding our wars via off-budget supplementals, while giving billions of taxpayer dollars to the IMF to bail out foreign banks. Progressive? NOT.
But worse can be said of both Chaka Fattah and Bob Brady, who ARE members of the Progressive Caucus: not only did they vote in favor of the same shitty supplemental, they broke explicit promises to oppose such supplementals.
If anything, Specter is a run-of-the-mill democrat.
The article, as it stands, makes it seem like Joe Sestak is a progressive. He’s not. Sestak has also voted repeatedly to fund our wars through supplementals (and just to clarify, that means the dollars for the war are not offset by taxes or spending cuts, but rather added to the deficit and given to our kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, great-great-grandkids ad nauseum like some birthday present from Hell). And unlike Specter, who threw your 4th Amendment rights out the window for the sake of convenience and has tried repeatedly to fix what he broke. Sestak, on the other hand, really believes in warrantless wiretapping, and said as much on a conference call I was on earlier this week. THAT is very troubling to me, even more trouble than Specter’s crimes of convenience.
I just wanted to set my own record straight.
