Democrat turned Republican turned Democrat Senator Arlen Specter (Confused, PA) has accused Vice Admiral turned Rear Admiral (retired) turned Congressman Slave Driver Joe Sestak of being a hypocrite:
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter called his fellow Democrat, Rep. Joe Sestak, a “flagrant hypocrite” and accused his rival of registering as a Democrat “just in time to run for Congress.”
Sestak has said that he will challenge Specter, who has the backing of President Obama and party leaders, for the Democratic Senate nomination next year. Specter, a longtime Republican, switched his party registration to Democrat this year.
The mind reels.
Update: Since we’re on the topic of pots and kettles, this one takes a prize.
Turkey’s prime minister has described ethnic violence in China’s Xinjiang region as “a kind of genocide”.
“There is no other way of commenting on this event,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said…
Turkey, a predominantly Muslim country, shares linguistic and religious links with the Uighurs in China’s western-most region.
“The event taking place in China is a kind of genocide,” Mr Erdogan told reporters in Turkey’s capital, Ankara.
Somewhere around a million Armenian residents of post-Ottoman Turkey could not be reached for comment.
Rep Sestak lacks Sen Specter’s nuance.
No…Sestak just lacks nuance…
They both have a gaping hole where the honor gene should be…
The tags, buffoonery and politics are redundant, particularly with Sestak and Snarlin’ Arlen.
They represent the worst, no no, the best, no no, the best of the worst, nope maybe the worst of the best? Heck, I can’t believe anyone believes that those two represent the best that Pennsylvania has to offer. If true, my, how the Keystone State has fallen.
What did I post yesstiddy about Integrity from RADM Meyer? These two missed that lesson.
Let’s not forget that paragon of Pennsylvanian virtue, Rep Murtha who called his voters racists.
Senator Sphincter is to be credited for not laughing out loud when he mentioned that “Sestak is a flagrant hypocrite in challenging my being a real Democrat.” Words like these are way beyond mere pots and kettles. It’s a comedy of poor lies.
SJBill,
You speak true, sir. You can’t write material as good as these two put out. I am looking forward to seeing both of these fellows square off in the upcoming campaign, and would encourage everyone else interested in it to lay in a good supply of popcorn, ’cause it’s gonna be a right fun time.
And in this other corner we have Pat Tomey versus Rick Santourm. Yeah, the battle of the Right2Lifers!! They will be campaigning on who can save more babies and I have money on one or the other calling for the end of Masturbation, the loss of Life giving potential and all that!! That will be the one subject that gets all the attention, all others be damned, Taxes, Spending and Guns all going by the wayside. That one subject will be the end of the Republican party.
BT: Jimmy T sends.
Yes, thinking about the two of them debating reminds me of this scene from “Dr. Strangelove”…
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General “Buck” Turgidson: Ahem… The Duty Officer asked General Ripper to confirm the fact that he *had* issued the go code, and he said, uh, “Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in, and no one can bring them back. For the sake of our country, and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them. Otherwise, we will be totally destroyed by Red retaliation. Uh, my boys will give you the best kind of start, 1400 megatons worth, and you sure as hell won’t stop them now, uhuh. Uh, so let’s get going, there’s no other choice. God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural… fluids. God bless you all” and he hung up.
I was thinking more along these lines:
Otter: Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests – we did.
[winks at Dean Wormer]
Otter: But you can’t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg – isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
SJS/
Reminds me, is there any way we can put Obama on double-secret probation?
And here I thought masturbation was a bi-partisan issue.
How can autoeroticism be bi-partisan?
Skippy, it is not a bi-partisan issue. It is, in fact, a one-man job.
Thank you, thank you, I have a million of them.
Don’t forget to tip your host.
– Max
SJS,
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While we cheer on both sides in the POS Sestek vs. POS Specter slug fest, let’s all remember that neither one is acceptable.
AFIK Santorum has not shown interest in getting the Republican nomination, so the fight to move the Republicans to the right will probably not take place.
Meanwhile we need to work on supporting Toomey. So he will be ready to slaughter the survivor of the Democrat primary in the fall.
If nothing else, do it in memory of all the poor staffers who ever suffered under (TWO star camouflaged as three star) Sestek.
I am embarrassed that he served in the same Navy and lives in the same district as I did.
Didn’t work for, but worked around Sestak and his staff (he was the DESRON Commander on my CAG Staff Cruise). He was an ass. Third worse Flag officer I have ever seen. No one liked him, including his boss, Mike Mullen (who’s first action upon becoming CNO was to fire him!). The fact that Sestak can’t even come to terms with his retired rank says a lot.
I hope they both lose.
N
Nose/
I missed it about his ret. rank, what’s the deal? Inquiring Air Force minds want to know–sort of, the whole mess is disgusting.
He was in a three star billet — director, Navy Operations Group, sort of a think thank for CNO. Mullen comes in and immediately fires him for “poor command climate”. I knew a guy that worked for him in his previous billet, Navy N51. Same conduct, different job. Kept up the crap as a congressman, going through 61 staffers in his first two years.
The issue is, he didn’t stay in his *** job long enough to retire as a VADM. His retiree ID card says, “RADM”, yet he goes around telling people he is a retired VADM, and the Dems promote him as a VADM. At least one person has a very well deserved hard-on about it. All the details are here.
I know two guys who worked for Sestak and they hate the man. Worst years of their career, they said. Firing him was the right thing to do, and I applaud Mullen for doing it in the public manner he did. After six years of Uncle Vern, Mullen knew he had to send a positive signal and that was it.
In other words guys, a real piece of work, it seems. And speaking of which–you’ve really got to work (no pun intended, only thing that fits) at it real hard to get a rep. like that. Pity the poor long suffering wife–or maybe she’s the reason he puts in 16 hr duty days at the office in the first place. And if that’s the case, where’s he keeping his “other woman” sweetie hidden–or does Joe’s apparently supremely engaging personality preclude that option?
Friend was Sestak’s COS when he had his CVBG command. The guy got a sympathy O6 command for enduring that reign of terror. Was a sweet command — still not worth the ass pain is my bet.
Sestak had his nose buried so far up Hillary’s bum, he had all but measured for new drapes there on the E ring. Cest la vie, Joe.
Well, *somebody* is electing them! Heck, Nebraska has a Senator who’s only claim to the office is name recognition, because he was a successful football coach at their football factory (some call it a university) in Lincoln.
Now I can sort of understand voting for a successful football coach — if you don’t send him to the Senate he might decide to go and coach Purdue or even Texas A&M or, God forbit, Iowa State and *then* who would you root for during the bowl games?
I’ve yet to meet a Democrat who likes Lieberman. I’ve yet to meet anybody who likes Kennedy. Yet they continue to be elected.
There is either a fundamental problem with our electoral system, or there is a fundamental problem with our educational system that so many seem to vote on name recognition. Were one in those districts one might very well run as Mickey Mouse, just to see what happens.
– Max
Max, the vast majority of people who actually vote pull the lever for the party endorsed candidate, this way they don’t have to think for themselves. I saw this first hand after Ticking-Off the party leadership with my elected job (I was a Township Supervisor in a small community in SE PA for 7 years), they put a party hack on the ballot and no amount of me running around at events promoting myself or flooding the place with signs could get over that kind of momentum. The Party BOT’s hand out the endorsement sheet as voters walk into the Polling place and that is where you get beat. To this day, 9 years later people come up to me and ask how and why I got out. They are stunned to find out that I was on the ballot but not endorsed by the Party so out I went.
This is why in PA that RINO Specter was always on the ticket, the Party new he would draw a ton of Moderate and Liberal votes out of the cities (Philly and the Iron City) cause Unions like the guy and he has always been pro-choice. In the suburban areas where the real conservatives live he was on the ticket and again the idiot’s simply pulled the Republican lever and there he is all these years in the Senate as a Republican.
The corruption of the Party starts at the lowest level and to get the Party back you have to start there. It’s ugly work but if you want to win elections you have to get into them trenches with the rest of the Pig’s and get dirty. I wouldn’t do that and I suspect there are a lot of people, good people with smarts and leadership skills and Vision that just don’t want to be beholden to the creeps that hold all the power.
Just look at what BOTH parties are doing to Sarah Palin as proof.
BT: Jimmy T sends.
“The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.”
and
“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.”
–HL Mencken