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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:15 PM
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Aww...our FRiends had their feelings hurt by a Republican...
Freepers, other citizens storm Sen. Specter's Office on Porkulus
Monday, 09 February 2009

Sen. Arlen Specter must feel like one lucky man today. He wasn’t in his Capitol Hill offices when MAF Chairman Melanie Morgan, Gold Star Mom Debbie Lee, Freepers and Free Republic founder Jim Robinson, and other patriotic citizens stormed his office to demand he reverse his position supporting the porkulus bill, aka the Barack-Blowing-Through- Dollars-Scheme.

MAF, as you know, is a protroops organization, and it is our opinion that this legislation will hurt veterans’ healthcare - not to mention every other American.

We’re really in town for our big press conference on Tuesday, when we release our commercial opposing President Obama’s decision to close Gitmo.

But we kept ourselves busy today. Melanie was at her finest, when we arrived at Specter’s office. For those of you who don’t know Specter, he’s a flip-flopping, spineless bureacrat who calls himself a Republican. He’s also one of the traitors who supports Obama’s spendulus bill. This is why he was a target for Monday’s action, spurred by Kirstinn Taylor of Free Republic.

Melanie and Jim Robinson asked to see the Senator. Specter’s front-office staff need to go back to kindergarten to get their manners tuned up. either that or they should go to work at Wal-Mart to pick up some tips from their greeters. A secretary, who wasn’t happy to see American patriots, refused to answer where the Senator was hiding. Jim, wearing his Navy cap, asked over and over about the Senator’s whereabouts, but the secretary wasn’t helping. It was distressing to see a Navy veteran being treated with such disrespect by a Senator’s staff.

Well, the cold-shoulder was too much for Melanie, who decided to take matters into her own hands. She stepped to the closed door leading to Specter’s office and the offices of his staffers, and flung it open. I didn’t take notes on what she said, but it went something like this:

“Come out! We want to talk to somebody right now!!”

The secretary didn’t like this. “You can’t go in there,” she warned Melanie, who promptly ignored her.

“Sombody come out here right now!!! We want to talk to you. Now!!!”

Specter’s chief of staff had finally had enough and came out to face the American citizens who wanted to redress their government official.

Melanie stepped toward him and unleashed a wave of complaints that hit him like a typhoon.

Again, I didn’t take notes, but it went something like this:

“Tell Specter to stop acting like a liberal. We are watching him and we’re not going to let him get away with this!”

Others had a few things to add to that. Debbie Lee introduced herself and handed the chief of staff a card with her son, Marc’s, picture on it. He was the first Navy SEAL to give his life in Iraq, she explained.

Liz Colby Harp brought her five homeschooled children so Specter could see whom he is saddling with trillions of dollars of debts. She was gracious, intelligent and dead on with her remarks.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181901/posts


Hmm, wonder if Liz stopped by in the past eight years to complain about her children's growing debt...


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Windy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:17 PM
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1. These people are nuts. He should get a restraining order. nt
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:19 PM
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2. I am glad that Specter is helping us and it could help us get a democrat in that senate seat
Honestly, I don't think the democrats can defeat him in a head-to-head race because he garners so many cross-over votes and has a strong appeal in the Philadelphia region, the key to so many resounding democratic victories.

But if Pat Toomey runs against Specter in the primaries I honestly could see him losing against Toomey. When it's just republicans voting in Pennsylvania the ultra-right wing has the ability to win races but from the last couple of statewide races with Governor, President and Rick Santorum's race - those same ultra right-wing republicans in Pennsylvania will end up losing double digits in the general elections.


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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:21 PM
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3. Unfortunately, Toomey's said he's not running...
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:29 PM
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6. Well unless another Santorum mini-me runs in the primary
I think Santorum will be a tough race for us to win.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:22 PM
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4. did it dawn on those morans that senators
Edited on Mon Feb-09-09 09:25 PM by madrchsod
really do`t give a shit what anyone thinks but the people in their state? did they realize that the phones to the house and senate members are spam protected and only accept from state area codes?

did they actually think they were going to make arlen meet them?..........morans
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:23 PM
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5. Do any of these people even LIVE in his district?
Have they never heard of "make an appointment" or did they skip the day that was covered in kindergarten?

Asshats.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:29 PM
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7. Why won't she let her kids out of her sight?
Control issues much?
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:30 PM
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8. Funny, The Only NEWS About Spector
was that his office received a suspicious letter, but it was not a threat.

As we've seen in past freeper protests, 8 people show up with misspelled signs.

http://news.google.com/news?q=Sen.%20Specter%27s%20Office&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn

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Believing Is Art Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:54 PM
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9. I don't think there are enough freepers to cause a "storm"
Maybe one of those annoying mists that makes you feel like you have to go wash up every five minutes and makes your clothes all sticky.
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Redneck Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 11:04 PM
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10. Yeah, those are effective lobbying tactics...
...idiots, or, more accurately, morans.

:eyes:
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8 track mind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 11:14 PM
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11. I wonder how long it took to get the drool stains out of the carpet?
I would imagine the office got a Lysol bath after that collection of knuckle dragging mouth breathers wandered out.


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WorseBeforeBetter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 11:15 PM
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12. I'd say they're a bit full of themselves. And rude. And crazy.
About one of the staffers:

"He took down the notes with a shaky hand and gave a smile that you might only see on a condemned man as he is walking to the gas chamber."

Yeah, I'm sure he was quaking in his boots.
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HooptieWagon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 11:16 PM
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13. Maybe Spector would have seen them...
... if they'd left the twenty-seven Port-O-lets back in the parking lot?
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 11:19 PM
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14. More power to 'em, I say.
Let their "fearless leaders" meet their brain-dead followers. Let the brain-dead see what their "fearless leaders" truly think of the riff and the raff.

This could be fun.

What is that saying? Hmmm, "you reap what you sow." specter 'oughta love meeting his crops.

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