A real hoot-a-toot-toot from snark-snappy Arlen Specter

[L. Coyote]

A real hoot-a-toot-toot from snark-snappy Arlen Specter
By Colin McNickle
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, April 22, 2007
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/mcnickle/s_503958.html


Apparently what's good for the Specter is not so good for the Gonzales. As in Sen. Arlen Specter and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, that is.

Mr. Specter, full of interruptions and accusations, could hardly wipe the smirk off of his snarlin' Arlen face Thursday as he finally got to take his face-to-face public potshots at Mr. Gonzales before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And the mission of the five-term Pennsylvanian, the committee's ranking Republican member, was clear from the outset:

= To either get the attorney general to contradict past statements ....

= Or to force him to admit he was an out-of-touch supervisor ........

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After all, it was just 14 months ago that Specter had his own little out-of-touch episode, right under his own nose, right in his own office. You may recall the details, first reported by USA Today and recounted by the Trib's David Brown:

For four years (prior to February 2006), Specter had won 13 defense projects worth nearly $49 million for six clients represented by American Defense International (ADI), a lobbying firm co-founded by Michael Herson. ADI received about $1.5 million in lobbying fees from those clients.

Mr. Herson's wife, Vicki Siegel, was Specter's one-time legislative assistant for appropriations; ............

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This is all about a holier-than-thou prosecutorial senator, vainly trying to raise early money to forestall a near-certain re-election defeat in three years, attempting to burnish his tarnished image by getting national TV face time and accusing a high administration official of failing to meet a standard that he himself does not.

If Alberto Gonzales should resign, shouldn't Arlen Specter, too?

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Arlen's Epitaph will read " I'd like to challenge that "

Magic Bullet Boy , like Shrub is always confident and righteous.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Why do the Neanderthals justify the felonies of their friends with this kind of crap?

This is all about a holier-than-thou prosecutorial senator, vainly trying to raise early money to forestall a near-certain re-election defeat in three years, attempting to burnish his tarnished image by getting national TV face time and accusing a high administration official of failing to meet a standard that he himself does not.

Really? This isn't about the unbroken chain of abuse of power that has been both justified and enabled by Gonzales? God knows Specter's taking care of his rich friends is inexcusable, but it hardly rises to the criminal behavior of Gonzales.

These small minded idiots just can't get it out of their heads that one man's crimes are not justified simply because he didn't invent crime. Unreal.

[L. Coyote]

3. I think the reference is to the tactis used by Specter.

This is a state of PA paper, so the opinion has local referents.