Sen Specter says he has been diagnosed with cancer (Marketwatch)

[cthrumatrix]

5:13pm 02/16/05 SEN. SPECTER SAYS HE HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/newsfinder/default.asp?siteid=mktw

[joanski01]

1. Here's a little snip

... Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said Wednesday he has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a form of cancer. .... "Senator Specter has an excellent chance of being completely cured of his Hodgkin's disease," his doctor said.

He's one of my Senators. You all know who the other one is -- Santorum. Ugh!

[Bunny]

3. If the worst would happen, and I sincerely hope it doesn't,

does Rendell get to appoint a replacement? I think that's what happened when Sen. Heinz was killed - didn't Casey Sr. appoint Harris Wofford?

On edit - I truly don't wish harm on Specter. He's certainly not my favorite, but at least he's not Santorum!

[Hippo_Tron]

6. Rendell appoints a replacement who has to run in a special election...

When that special election is held depends on state laws.

[Bunny]

7. Okay, thanks! n/t

[Hippo_Tron]

5. Okay I don't want to be too mean, but couldn't your other senator...

Have been the one with the cancer? Maybe he would seek only "spiritual treatment" for the illness.

[jean]

2. I thought Specter had cancer once before...too bad he can't dodge this

bullet - it isn't a magic one, for sure.

[BornaDem]

14. He was operated on for a brain tumor 4 or 5 yrs. ago...

I don't know that it was malignant though. Also don't know if they ever said one way or the other, just that it had been successfully removed. I don't remember that he had cancer previously, but it's possible.

[jean]

15. thankyou (and welcome!) it was the brain tumor and I assumed it

had been cancerous

[pstans]

4. That's too bad

Specter, although Republican, is moderate. He is the type of Republican that Democrats should make friends with.

[sendero]

16. I dunno...

.... I wouldn't wish cancer on anyone, and I hope he recovers soon - BUT - I'll never forget and I'll never forgive the way he treated Anita Hill in the Thomas confirmation hearings.

He was well beyond asshole, and I hope he's happy with the moronic idealogue he helped put in the court.

[cornermouse]

8. I don't wish him ill, but

wasn't he one of Clarence Thomas' major supporters? And wasn't he also one of the major attackers of Bill Clinton? If so, I don't think I can feel any sympathy for him.

How does that song go? Oh yeah. "My Give A D-mn's Busted!

[Hippo_Tron]

10. Specter voted not guilty on both counts

But he was very supportive of the impeachment process.

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[Freddie Stubbs]

11. Why would they kill a Senator from a state with a Democratic Governor?

Bush actually campaigned for this guy last year when he was being challenged by a conservative Republican in the primary.

[Dogmudgeon]

12. There's nothing sinister about it

Arlen Specter has had cancer before; this one, from what I heard, is more aggressive (metastatic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma). Even if he is able to survive this one, he is most likely going to have to leave the Senate.

Specter has been, overall, a good guy. Yes, he's also been a rat's ass from time to time, as with the Clarence "Slappy" Thomas hearings. I would have much rather seen him leave the Senate after losing an election to a Democrat, but cancer isn't a very fair disease.

--p!

[dbt]

13. Lest we forget:

Specter pondered in the Media--after Clinton was impeached and found not guilty--whether we should impeach him again. Said it "needed to be explored."

The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with they bones.

:freak:
dbt