"Arlen Specter's Deliciously Bitter Farewell to Fellow Senators: You're a Bunch of Cannibals!"

[1776Forever]

Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Nichols: "Arlen Specter's Deliciously Bitter Farewell to Fellow Senators: You're a Bunch of Cannibals!"
John Nichols (The Nation):

http://www.thenation.com/blog/157249/arlen-specters-deliciously-bitter-farewell-fellow-senators-youre-bunch-cannibals

No one expected Arlen Specter, the grouchiest member of the Senate, to leave the chamber quietly -- or, for that matter, gracefully.

But who would have thought that the Democrat turned Republican turned Democrat would exit the Senate calling his colleagues a bunch of “cannibals”

Referring not just to the intense partisanship that has come to characterize the chamber in recent years but also to the internal ideological wrangling that forced him from the Republican Party in 2009 – only to be defeated in a Democratic primary in 2010 – the senior senator used his valedictory address Tuesday to declare: "Eating or defeating your own is a form of sophisticated cannibalism."

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Check out more at the link!

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[Democrats_win]

1. Congress: "While all the others starved to death, You dined a bit too well."

Truly a fitting tribute from Specter in more ways that even he could imagine.

Quote is from the Ballad of Alfred Packer a famous cannibal who dined on his fellow propspectors in 1873 Colorado.

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/history/alfred_packer/index.html

[1776Forever]

5. Excellent - Thank you for the quote! n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

2. If the man had not swtiched sides so often..and maintained the slightest pretense of having

some actual principles...he might not have ended up eaten alive by his cohorts.
No sympathy for a man who made his own bed...and is now pissed off that he has to lay down in it.

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[BrklynLiberal]

15. It might appear to some that his principles were a sometime thing, subject to his own self-interest

rather than any over-riding set of ideals. It would seem his #1 rule was "keep my seat".

Sometimes that works...and sometimes it does not.

[deaniac21]

17. Yep

[MgtPA]

16. Well said!

[Denninmi]

3. My favorite quote about this sort of thing:

"I love it when Republicans eat their young" -- Roseanne Connor, 'Roseanne'

[1776Forever]

4. Here's another good article from Philadelphia Inquirer:

Posted on Tue, Dec. 21, 2010

Specter prepares his farewell after 30 years in the Senate
By Thomas Fitzgerald

Inquirer Staff Writer

WASHINGTON - The family photographs came down Monday, packed in bubble wrap and boxes for the trip home, leaving nothing but some nails and sun-faded outlines on the walls of Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's inner office.

After 30 years on Capitol Hill, the state's longest-serving senator is clearing out and heading back to Philadelphia.

Specter, 80, will deliver his final floor speech Tuesday morning, decrying a gridlocked Senate that has lost its political center and the sense of collegiality that once kept senators from campaigning against one another.

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Read more: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20101221_Specter_prepares_his_farewell_after_30_years_in_the_Senate.html#ixzz18lu456cl
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[badtoworse]

6. Specter is an asshole - nt

[1776Forever]

9. He may be but he did leave with a hell of a speech that stated a lot of truth. n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

12. Too bad he did not find his testicles til the final day of his career

[right2bfree]

21. No ####. This guy never had a set to begin with. nt

[enough]

7. Specter departs, leaving the nation with two or three more decades of Clarence Thomas. (nt)

[SpiralHawk]

11. "Smirk." - Clarence CokeCan Thomas (R - Family Values Exemplar)

[leveymg]

8. Specter set himself up to be the most chewed upon carcass in the Senate - switching

parties that often he was bound to be whipsawed every time control changed hands. He tried so hard to be on the winning side that he was trusted by neither and loathed by both. Triumph of ambition over principle.

[tblue37]

18. Joe Lieberman should take lesson! nt

[The Second Stone]

10. And here I thought that the OP referred to Phil Spector

Imagine my disappointment

[Marr]

14. It would be interesting to hear such a party hopper define "your own".

I have to assume he's talking about all of his fellow leaches in the House of Lords, and not about anything so silly as political ideology.

[Poboy]

19. Mr Magic Bullet can go to hell.

[right2bfree]

20. Ditto on that. (Pun intended). Screw "Majic Bullet" Specter. nt

[Scurrilous]

22. K & R

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