Specter, Snowe and Collins Whore Themselves Out

They plied the oldest profession by voting for this atrocious bill that will have dire consequences.

And it now goes to a vote tomorrow and eventual restructuring (read: adding back that which was removed) in committee:

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Monday advanced the $838 billion economic stimulus bill, clearing a major procedural hurdle by a razor thin margin with the help of just three Republicans. A vote on final passage of the bill is expected on Tuesday.

The Senate vote, by 61 to 36, to close debate on the stimulus, symbolized the partisanship that still grips Congress despite President Obama’s call for new cooperation. It also highlighted the rising power of the centrist Republicans who cast the critical votes. Under Senate rules, it takes 60 votes to invoke cloture and usher a bill to a vote.

Those votes, by Senators Susan Collins and Olympia J. Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, along with the 56 Democrats and two Independents who regularly vote with them, followed a succession of floor speeches by Republicans criticizing the stimulus as a bloated, wasteful spending bill.

Sens. Specter, Collins and Snowe should be so proud for their "bi-partisan" vote. It doesn't matter if it's the shittiest bill ever passed and one in which we will lay our future at the hands of China and the emirates, as long as you showed a spirit of cooperation that is so important to Democrats now that they are in power.

You all just were taken in by a dude who promised at the party that if you just fooled around with him, he wouldn't tell anyone and would still respect you in the morning. Guess what? He just posted every lurid detail on his Facebook page and everyone knows how you all whored yourselves out against the warnings of those who knew how it would end. You should feel cheap and used but of course, you won't.

I am on a personal mission to sink Specter at every opportunity. I live over the bridge from PA and will make it my sole goal to see him ousted from the Senate.

It's funny how a North Carolina Democrat has more intestinal fortitude and conservative leanings than these three (hopefully soon to be former) GOP Senators.