The Biggest Political Story of 2010

As happens every year in late December, the various pundits and pundettes run down the Top Ten Stories of 2010 with the smug air of self-importance. Take for instance that irritating bastard Chris Matthews t whom his morning did his version by giving out various awards such as the Chutzpah Award. It was inane and biased but it's Chris Matthews so I'm being redundant.

Anyway, Politico ran down their list and it is missing one really important event. They did not include the election that threw numerous Democrats out on their asses and was a thorough rebuke of Obamacare. They list Manchin shooting the Cap and Trade bill and Christine O'Donnell whining that she's not a witch, dammit. But to not rank the biggest thumping administered to sitting congress in decades the nod in this list is a joke.

When historians look back on this year, they will see it as a year where Americans said "enough!" It will be the year that the Tea Parties made themselves into a political force by not being a huge cohesive unit but by working in small groups and helping push candidates into races who will stand up for what the Founding fathers intended. We now have some true citizen politicians.

We collectively said that we will not stand for the politics as usual approach to dealing with our country's finances. Now we have to hold them to that promise.

This Here Big Tent Should Be a Big Tent

Allahpundit notes that John Cornyn is getting some heat from the establishment GOP (read: those who bow to evangelicals) about attending a Log Cabin republican meet up.

All credit goes to Cornyn for saying the hell with it and attending an event the aforementioned evangelicals believe is akin to the anonymous sex clubs Tom Hanks frequented in Philadelphia. He's getting it and it has everything to do with Tea Party madness as he would considered it political suicide to have contemplated it previously.

And therein lies the problem I've always had with the establishment GOP; they always inject social issues into the debate when at this point we have no room for it. We are facing economic Armageddon and most people are too damn concerned about paying for food and their house and less about whether Jim and John want to hook up or get married. Abortion is distasteful but we have the opportunity to get control back and set things on a more even keel fiscally and that will be impossible if we get into the gay marriage or any other social issue. The Christian right is a non-factor and that's how it has to remain if we have any shot at taking back the entire Legislative branch.

The Tea Party is a movement that has the ability to shift the political landscape in ways we'll not realize for a decade. The most important way would be to smack the religious sector in the mouth and make them understand that the majority of Americans and--dare I say--the majority of the new Right just doesn't give a damn if two women want to exchange vows. I never have and I'm a hard-core conservative with a strong libertarian streak.

This is our time and the moment can be turned to dust by the zealous Christian minority. We, as a party have no choice but to be welcoming to all who preach fiscal responsibility. This is a different America than it was thirty years ago, an America where the main tax-paying demographic grew up knowing guys who were gay, a girl who chose an abortion and a dude who smokes weed as a hobby but is still pretty damn cool. It's not the party of Reagan when it comes to social issues but it is when it comes to faith in what America was, is and will be. Why exclude those who were born gay?

Imagine the coalition we could form if we included those we've traditionally shunned.

A GOP Tidal Wave in November?

It's feeling more and more like that every day. In what was supposed to be "Recovery Summer" it's been anything but. Drearier economic news comes out on a daily basis and Americans are now at the point where they've lost hope. Hope in the administration, hope in Congress and hope in a deficit-inducing stimulus approach.

How bad have things become in Washington? So bad that Obama's best and brightest are fighting amongst themselves and the creepiest looking dude in the House is looking on the bright side of a bad situation:

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) believes the November elections will likely weed out some of the “most difficult Democrats” that leadership lawmakers have dealt with this Congress.

In an interview with The Hill, the Energy and Commerce Committee chairman expressed confidence that Democrats will retain the House, and suggested he won’t miss some of the Democrats who won’t be back next year.

“I think a lot of the House seats we’re going to lose are those who have been the toughest for the Democrats to pull into line — the Democrats that have been the most difficult,” Waxman said.

Way to sell out the Blue Dogs, Henry. It's you and your policies that have destroyed your party and now your preparing to dance on the graves of the only sane people in your caucus. Real classy, douchebag.

Anyway, Pat Cadell--one of the only Democrats (along with Carville) who sees that the Democrat party is about to see itself wounded for a decade--says it's going to be good year for moving companies in the DC metro area.

Evan Bayh Bails on the Dems

Senator Evan Bayh realized that casting an affirmative vote for Obamacare was just too much of an anchor when it comes to reelection:

Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh will not seek re-election this year, a decision that hands Republicans a prime pickup opportunity in the middle of the country.

"After all these years, my passion for service to my fellow citizens is undiminished, but my desire to do so by serving in Congress has waned," Bayh will say, according to prepared remarks obtained by the Fix. He will make the decision formal at a press conference later today.

In his statement, Bayh cited the lack of bipartisan comity as one of the main reasons for the decision. "There is too much partisanship and not enough progress -- too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem-solving," Bayh will say. "Even at a time of enormous challenge, the peoples' business is not being done." He specifically cited the recent vote that killed the creation of a debt commission as evidence of the partisan gridlock.

Bayh says that he believes he would have won another term but there's no way he leaves the Dems in the lurch with only one day to get a replacement without going through the caucus process. Obamacare is the focal point of the great anger this nation is feeling right now. If Obama had put one on-hundredth of energy into creating jobs and fixing the economy as he did Obamacare, we'd be in better shape than we are now. Instead, the administration pushed for any deal despite the fact that America despises the very idea and the Democrats worked behind closed doors while making shady deals with individual senators and unions while leaving the rest of us to fend for ourselves.

Bayh's vote for Obamacare is the most prevalent reason he's not seeking another term regardless if he admits it or not. He would most-likely have lost as it's shaping up to be a year in which the GOP can take back the Senate and make huge gains in the House. What an incredible development considering where they were in November 2008.

Crist is Almost as Tone Deaf as Obama

Charlie Crist has been pounded from the right by Marco Rubio who has entrenched himself as the conservative and his bonafides are rock solid. Crist got caught up in Obamania and was pictured with The One in a hug (right) while supporting his budget-busting legislation.

Crist is getting crushed in the primary battle and one would think he'd at least try to act somewhat conservative. You'd be wrong:

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that illegal immigrants should not count in the census, a position that would cost the state federal money and one that puts him at odds with Gov. Charlie Crist — his primary opponent — as well as the Republican-controlled legislature.

Rubio’s spokesman told the paper that his position was based on “rightful representation in Congress and ensuring that every voter has an equal voice.”

Today, Crist, trailing Rubio in recent polls, called the former state House speaker’s position “absurd.”

“Florida deserves to have her fair share. And I think making sure that we count every single Floridian is vitally important. That’s why I went to the school yesterday in North Miami,” Crist said.

Essentially what Crist is saying is "screw the rest of the country, let's count the illegals so we can get a bigger share of money forcefully taken from people in other states". That would be fraud anywhere else but not in the non-political world.

Crist is sucking up to Florida's immigrants who can vote but also to those who can't vote but will do so illegally. Again, fraud.

Does Crist not realize that it was the illegal alien issue that lost the presidency for John McCain. Bush also lost the support of his base--the only support he had at that point--because of this issue.

Rubio will rout Crist and win the seat sending a real conservative to the Senate and not another RINO. We already have far too many of them.

Blanche Lincoln Getting Trounced By Guy Not Even Running Yet

The Democrats have used every non-sequitur, throwaway line and mumbled reason for Scott Brown winning in Massachusetts. They claim it means nothing, nothing at all, move along, nothing to see here.

They've been in overdrive claiming it's not really about health care, it's about the economy and people are upset. It's not their lame policies you see, they just don't know enough about it. Vote for socialized medicine and you'll see it's a really good thing. Hell, the Canadian system is awesome, just ask their elected leaders.

There are quite a few incumbents who supported Obama and voted for Obamacare who may want to call their offices, starting with Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR):

John Boozman will enter the Arkansas Senate race this weekend as the frontrunner. He leads incumbent Blanche Lincoln by an amazing 56-33 margin in our first poll of the race.

Lincoln's approval rating has sunk to just 27%, with 62% of voters in the state disapproving of her. She's at a middling 51% even within her own party and just 17% of independents and 9% of Republicans are happy with how she's doing.

A look inside the health care issue gives a good indication of how Lincoln has managed now to get it from all sides. 61% of voters in the state oppose the President's plan, and among those folks Lincoln's approval rating is just 8% with 79%of them expressing the belief that she's too liberal.

Note that most people don't even know who Boozman is and still he's winning. Essentially, some dude name Not Blanche Lincoln could run as long as he's a Republican and win by 20%.

Expect Sen. Lincoln to be coerced by a Ambassador posting in some exotic locale to get out of the race. Either that or have Obama campaign for her, he's been so successful in winning over Olympic voters, climate change zealots, Virginia voters, Massachusetts voters...

Polls Closed, Updates Abound (Update: Brown WINS!)

Ok, it's 25-minutes since the polls shut down and the early and often and dead voters went home. No numbers thus far but there is some news:

-Pollster Frank Luntz is having trouble getting Coakley supporters to sit for his usual election night group.

-O'Reilly just said with 7% in Brown leads by 3%; 51-48%.

-Allah predicts heartbreak, but then he generally does. (Note: as of 9:13 Hot Air has crashed.)

-AP also has this showing results in Ashland: 54-45% for Brown.

-Early results show Brown by 7% with 238 of 2168 Precincts Reporting. That's 11%.

-36% Brown by 5%.

-Update: Some heavy hitters call it for Brown. As it stands it's Brown by 7% with 63% in. It's over and Brown has done it.

-None of the nets have called it but it's over. The big loser is Barack Obama. Who would want that guy to come in and stump them? He lost at Copenhagen...twice in a few months. He couldn't push Corzine over in deep blue New Jersey and he's failed to carry Coakley over the finish line. Reid and Pelosi are a close second.

-County by county here.

-Lots of major websites are crashing. The entire country is paying attention.

-Coakley concedes! Fox, AP, MSNBC and everyone else calls it for Brown. The look on Maddow's face was awesome.

-Chris Matthews looks like he's constipated. I guess no tingles up his leg tonight.

-Maddow and Matthews are spinning like whirling dervishes calling Tea Partiers "hypocrites" and spewing the typical lib rhetoric that it wasn't policy, it was message. Please, please, please keep that mindset until November.

-Norah O'Donnell is apoplectic. It's like a funeral at MSNBC. I've never had fun at a funeral until tonight. Hell, O'Donnell is even wearing black. Maddow sounds like his dog died.

Massachusetts Senate Update

Polls close in 52-minutes. I wouldn't expect to get info right away but you never know. Hey, the AP is so good, they had the results a full 6-hours before the polls closed.

-The Mass. race has started a cat fight between the pussy, whining chief liberal and the RINO over at MSNBC.

-The Dem get out the vote effort thoughts they were picking up Dem Coakley backers. They had it half right.

-"No one is using the coat check at Coakley HQ" Heh.

-Coakley screams voter fraud and Brown makes her look stupid once again.

-What to look for in Mass. results.

A Memorable Day for the GOP

They don't necessarily deserve it and should serve a bit more time in exile for selling out their base by passing the prescription drug bill and running up what were once considered huge deficits (until Obama). But the GOP has been gifted a horrid first year by Obama and generally loathesome Dem candidates in two big races in the last couple of months. We have new life it seems.

First off, Chris Christie took over for Jon Corzine in New Jersey in what can only be a harbinger for the new year. Corzine made McGreevey look sane and centrist with his ultra-liberal policies. Businesses ran for the exits and taxes went sky-high. Christie has vowed to cut spending and if he doesn't thisae state will not elect another Republican for twenty years. I think he'll do okay but he is facing massive deficits and a bloated beuracracy.

The other big event is the possibly impending win by Scott Brown. No real exit polling, only anecdotal info but there's huge turnout. The polls close at 8:00 EST. Much more on this later. It could be a momentous day for us on the right.

Update: The Inquirer didn't even put the Brown-Coakley race on the front page but instead put some drivel about Obama mobilizing his grassroots. The biggest story of the new year is being intentionally ignored by the Inqy. About what I expected.

Taxachusetts Senate Race Update

Big news from the Peoples Republic this morning.

-Obama went yesterday and had a teleprompter mishap. He was heckled too.

-Intrade has Coakley down to 40% 35%.

-Typical liberal response to Coakley's floundering campaign...Blame Bush! Guys, Bush has been out of office for a year. Remember, you all had those stupid 1.20.09 stickers on your bumpers? Note that Patrick Kennedy gets her name wrong more than once.

-Jim Kramer predicts a huge rally on Wall Street if Brown wins.

-Expect the votes to be counted as slowly as possible if the initial results favor Brown. Also, expect many allegations of voter fraud, especially with the SEIU mobilizing.

-Inside the polling.

There's no way I can emphasize the importance of this election enough. A Brown win will not only energize the GOP throughout the nation but it will energize the Conservative base more than they already are (which is considerable). As Tapper notes, Coakley is a "canary in the coal mine" for the Democrats.

If we have any hope of winning back the nation and stopping the socialist Juggernaut, it starts here and now. The GOP will have to trend right and maybe this will give them the backbone to actually stand up for what is not only good for the country but what is right.

-Update: "I like my women blonde, my Johnny Walker black and my Democrats quivering."
Amen, brother.

A Political Earthquake is Imminent

In the waning hours of the Coakley-Brown campaign, we're seeing the polls still trend toward Brown. Obama is set to land in Massachusetts (using our tax dollars and spewing massive amounts of carbon into the air) to prop up the flailing Coakley effort. The largest entitlement program in history hangs in the balance and the future of our nation over the next decade comes down to a special election in a deep blue state that has elected a Democrat in every federal election in recent memory.

Here's how the healthcare fiasco could shake out: Suppose Brown does win, the Dems will have to work fast to pass the healthcare fiasco. Chances are it will be close and the Massachusetts authorities will call for a recount to ensure that the outcome was indeed valid plus they will have to count the mail-in ballots. In other words, they will work as slow as possible. However, the GOP is set for legal action:

Appointed Senator Paul Kirk will lose his vote in the Senate after Tuesday’s election in Massachusetts of a new senator and cannot be the 60th vote for Democratic health care legislation, according to Republican attorneys.

Kirk has vowed to vote for the Democratic bill even if Republican Scott Brown is elected but not yet certified by state officials and officially seated in the Senate. Kirk’s vote is crucial because without the 60 votes necessary to stop a Republican filibuster, the bill will be defeated.

This would be a devastating loss for President Obama and congressional Democrats. The bill, dubbed ObamaCare, is the centerpiece of the president’s agenda. Brown has campaigned on becoming the 41st vote against ObamaCare.

But in the days after the election, it is Kirk’s status that matters, not Brown’s. Massachusetts law says that an appointed senator remains in office “until election and qualification of the person duly elected to fill the vacancy.” The vacancy occurred when Senator Edward Kennedy died in August. Kirk was picked as interim senator by Governor Deval Patrick.

Democrats in Massachusetts have talked about delaying Brown’s “certification,” should he defeat Democrat Martha Coakley on Tuesday. Their aim would be to allow Kirk to remain in the Senate and vote the health care bill.

This will make Bush v. Gore look like arguing a parking ticket as the Dems have almost grasped the holy grail--healthcare reform--and will not go away without a knock-down, drag-out brawl. They will use every means to get this done including invoking arcane rules and procedures and will never stop if they have any avenue to subvert the will of the people.

Grab the popcorn because this is about to get really good.

The Coakley Meltdown Continues

Martha Coakley is way out of her league. She acted as if she just had to say yes to running and the Senate seat that opened when Ted Kennedy passed would automatically be hers. Now one can understand how Coakley could feel this way as Massachusetts has been safely Democratic for decades...hell, they even elected John Kerry and keep sending him back. Plus Coakley has been living in a liberal bubble and had no idea what was happening outside Boston.

Now it turns out she had no idea what was happening inside the limits of Bean Town either. Check this radio interview in which she dismisses Rudy Giuliani as "a Yankees fan" and then inexplicably dismisses Curt Schilling as the same:



Schilling is legendary in Boston for bringing them their first World Series in nearly 9-decades. He was the one Boston player who came up big against the hated Yankees and Sox fans will love him forever.

Schilling responds of course and just makes Coakley's rhetoric sound more embarrassing and amateurish:

But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan. Well, check that, if you didn’t know what the hell is going on in your own state maybe you could….

Nice.

Add to that Coakley's friends are getting her in more hot water and Barack Obama is slated to visit the state on her behalf and he's not the big draw he once was.

BTW, the polls are breaking in Scott Brown's favor.

Update:



Update: Stunned would be the response from most liberals with regard to recent events.

Steel Worker About To Get Union Hall Beat-down Tomorrow

The steel worker gets paid 50 bones by the flailing Coakley campaign and he says thanks for the coin and hoists a Brown sign anyway.

Uh, dude, you do realize your mug is all over the Internet, right?



Here's Scott Brown's Reaganesque moment that will resonate with people for a long time:



As for Coakley; she's as amateurish as the Commander in Chief.

Can the GOP Steal Ted Kennedy's Seat?

Er...probably not but there's more hope then we've had since Mary Jo Kopechne was left to die at Chappaquiddick.

Scott Brown is giving the "hand selected" candidate Martha Coakley fits in Massachusetts and today, through internet words of mouth and blogs links he's raised over $800K. He was hoping to break $500K but that was surpassed hours ago.

Here's the link if you want to throw him some shekels.

If we could take this seat, it would definitely put the Dems into a full-on tizzy and Harry Reid would be whirling like a dervish on the Senate floor. Damn, I think I almost pissed my pants just thinking about it.

Wouldn't it be ironic if the Dems who were forced into voting for Obamacare bailed out before it could get final passage because of a GOP upstart taking Kennedy's seat? Think about it; Massachusetts has it's own version of Obamacare and that is the only campaign issue right about now. Imagine if Coakley lost what it would say about socialized medicine.

Tuesday Night News and Notes

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-The Dems are dropping out in droves. Now Sen. Byron Dorgan is bailing in what could be a portent of the way the Dems think the mid-terms will go. That will be a GOP pick up for sure if they don't act their usual stupid selves and blow it somehow.

-Michael Yon is handcuffed by customs officials in what will surely be another embarrassing faux pas on top of many recent ones.

-Yeah, that whole bailout thing is working really well.

-The Obama administration may be different than the Clinton's in one respect; the Clinton's took the silverware while Obama is robbing us so badly with crony schemes that the only thing left may be the silverware.

-Start paying attention to the race for Ted Kennedy's seat. A Republican within 9% is striking and may be another sign this will be a great year for the GOP.

-Nancy Pelosi is shameless. But I'm redundant.

(Not So) Fearless Predictions for 2010

2009 went out with what could have been a bad bang but for the actions of passengers on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit where an al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadi couldn't actuate the bomb he contained in his crotch. Yet another sign that yes, we are still at war regardless of what Obama may think.

That said, here's my predictions for the next twelve months:

-Unemployment will drop in the summer but not nearly enough to help the Democrats come November. I'm predicting it will rise in quarter one then begin a slow descent through the rest of the year.

-The GOP will not take back the Senate but will come closer in the House. The GOP will pick up Specter's seat for sure.

-The Eagles will finally win a championship (this is more hopeful than prescient).

-The Flyers and Sixers won't.

-The Phillies will win the NL East again.

-Villanova will make the Final Four again.

-We will get attacked again by al-Qaeda.

-Yemen will become the central point in the War on Terror.

-Obama will not refer to it as the War on Terror.

-The healthcare bill will pass in a much more watered-down version than the Senate has passed.

-Obama will suffer politically because of it.

-Sarah Palin will continue to be a player in conservative circles. The media will continue to take cheap shots at her.

-Global warming shenanigans will continue to be exposed putting a final stake in the heart of cap and trade.

-Obama will raise taxes.

-China will say no to buying anymore of our debt.

-The dollar will slide and inflation will rise.

-Israel will take action in Iran. Iran will respond with a missile aimed at Tel Aviv shot down by American anti-missile technology setting off battles on the Iran-Iraq border.

-Hezbollah will attack Israel in response to the bombings and Syria will use the chaos to enter Lebanon again.

-Russia will continue to play games with weapons control and weapons proliferation. Obama will not say anything about their actions.

-Obama will alienate no less than four of our key allies.

-Obama will not bow to another world leader. He will make other faux pas when meeting them however.

-Obama's poll numbers will stabilize around 44% but will not go above 50% unless a catastrophic event occurs and he actually shows leadership.

-Harry Reid will lose as will Chris Dodd, Roland Burris, Byron Dorgan and Blanche Lincoln.

-Hannah Giles will continue to make her mark on the news and the media will continue to ignore her.

-Obama will continue to try to please everyone while pleasing no one and further alienating his base.

-The administration's efforts to claw out of the recession will be shown to have been farcical as program after program is dubbed a failure.

-Charles Johnson's sad descent into the fever swamps of the left will continue.

Harry Reid Tanking in Reelection Bid

There's alot to look forward to in 2010 if the GOP can get their collective asses in gear. Chief among them would be Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid going down with the socialized medicine ship.

Reid should have been jettisoned as soon as he said this anyway but the Democrats hate the military so it didn't even register on their outrage meter one iota:



He turned out to be spectacularly wrong in a way few politicians have ever been.

He's run the most corrupt Senate of anyone in recent memory and he's about to lose his seat in the coming (hopefully) Democrat bloodbath.

JWF has more.

Dems Polling Numbers Continue Decline

We saw this with Rassmussen who tends to be an early indicator of where things are going. Now we have the Daily Kos weekly poll showing a serious softening of support for the Dems:

The first indicator of potential peril is the right track-wrong track metric. With each passing day, the mood of the nation is going to be reflected on the current political leadership in Washington DC, rather than the transgressions and incompetencies of the past leadership. And the mood of the nation appears to be darkening, rather than growing more optimistic. After a meteoric rise in the opening few months of the new Obama administration (spelling corrected from original), the RT/WT metric now sits at its worst level in months (-17: 40/57).

Also check out the numbers who say they will definitely vote among the GOP, Independents and Dems. Shocking to say the least.

Not sure of the sampling percentages but there are a whole bunch more Independents and Republicans than there were just a few months ago but I would imagine this poll is heavily weighted toward Dems as Kos always does, which should make the poll doubly disconcerting to the Democrats.

This also struck me with a full 20% more saying that they are happy with our current healthcare system than said so before Obama began talking up healthcare reform on the trail.

Two Issues That Will Help the GOP in 2010

The GOP has had a tin ear when it comes to sensing issues that will not rally the base but elicit a response from Democrats and Independents. The last week has given them two.

The first would be the Iranian situation. Obama's tepid response to those who seek only a small semblance of freedom should be point number 1A when it comes to ads during the next cycle. He essentially sold them out and that should be played out to the fullest. Here we saw--in real time--the quashing of the seeds of a revolution where people begged The One to respond in their favor and he punted.

Next we have the Cap and Trade fiasco. Americans are wavering on the entire global warming hysteria and the passage of that bill by the House with--what one can hope is a defeat in the Senate--should be point number one. Obama pushed for a bill that would or could raise the utility prices of the average American dramatically.

If the GOP had any coherence, they'd play it up as a tax during a major recession. Rasmussen has a huge gap between those who think it would help or hurt the economy:

Americans have mixed feelings about the historic climate change bill that passed the House on Friday, but 42% say it will hurt the U.S. economy.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 19% believe the climate change bill passed by the House on Friday will help the economy. Fifteen percent (15%) say it will have no impact, and 24% are not sure.

A majority of both Republicans (56%) and adults not affiliated with either major political party (52%) think the bill will hurt the economy. Among Democrats, however, 30% say it will help the economy, 23% that it will hurt and 21% say it will have no impact.

Hell, only 30% of Dems have any hope it will help and those are the green liberals and Kool-Aid drinkers who haunt the fringe. It's a loser and one that should embolden the GOP going into the health care fight and the next election cycle.

Here's to hoping the bastards don't blow it as they have so many times before.

It's On: Specter vs. GOP

Sen. Arlen Specter blames GOP policies for the death of Jack Kemp:

"Well, I was sorry to disappoint many people. Frankly, I was disappointed that the Republican Party didn't want me as their candidate," Mr. Specter said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "But as a matter of principle, I'm becoming much more comfortable with the Democrats' approach. And one of the items that I'm working on, Bob, is funding for medical research."

Mr. Specter continued: "If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine."

It didn't take long for "single bullet theory" Arlen to learn the Dem playbook, did it? You find an issue or an event that is in the news and bad and blame it on the GOP. It's simple. It used to be that everything was blamed on Bush but he's gone now so they just use the generic "Republicans" now. Specter always creeped me out but now the guy is just plain reprehensible.

But our hero Sen. specter has riled his new friends and there's serious rumblings that he will face a challenge from his left in Joe Sestak; a primary battle he could lose if Sestak had the guts to go against Senate leadership and the Obama administration. Add to that the fact that Pat Toomey will be a considerable foe--especially if the economy remains in the tank.

I would be surprised if Senator Specter is in the Senate after the 2010 general.