The Next Arlen SpecterComments on: - by http://robertringer.com/2010/07/the-next-arlen-specter/ In Support of Laissez-Faire Capitalism and Individual Freedom Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:09:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: deusimplicitushttp://robertringer.com/2010/07/the-next-arlen-specter/#comment-3403 deusimplicitus Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:18:36 +0000 http://blog.robertringer.com/?p=1318#comment-3403 Robert, I ask you, how can a nation's people remain unified and at relative peace with itself as a whole, when there is such a totally growing disconnect from the people leading and making decisions for those citizens and the people themselves being adversely affected by the decisions of this fractionally small number of decision makers? I also wonder how this candidate for the Supreme Court of the United States could still be acceptable to a majority of Americans unless the majority of Americans are also completely out of touch with the basically time honored principles of our basic foundational laws established at our conception, or these polls are just blatantly false and manipulative? Case in point.... July 15, 2010 Americans Favor Confirming Kagan to High Court, 44% to 34% Would be first recent nominee to win approval with less than majority public support by Jeffrey M. Jones PRINCETON, NJ -- More Americans want the Senate to vote for rather than against Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court, but the percentage in favor is less than a majority. Support for Kagan's confirmation remains essentially the same as it was before her June confirmation hearings. 2010 May-July Trend: As You May Know, Solicitor General Elena Kagan Is the Person Nominated to Serve on the Supreme Court. Would You Like to See the Senate Vote in Favor of Kagan Serving on the Supreme Court, or Not? Typically, support for nominees does not change much after their hearings. Instead, Gallup usually finds increases in the percentage of Americans opposed and decreases in the percentage with no opinion. The percentage without an opinion on the Kagan nomination was the same before and after her hearings, which may indicate these were not widely followed by the average American. The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Kagan's nomination next week, with the full Senate voting later this summer. Kagan is expected to be confirmed, given the Senate's large Democratic majority. http://www.gallup.com/poll/141329/Americans-Favor-Confirming-Kagan-High-Court.aspx?utm_source=tagrss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_term=USA How can one explain a Ted Kennedy, a Robert Byrd, an Arlen Specter, or even a Lindsey Graham and not believe that something has gone inexplicably and terribly wrong with our political system and even more so with the values and perceptions of too many Americans to allow, and to have allowed, these so called "representatives" remain in office repeatedly? Robert,
I ask you, how can a nation’s people remain unified and at relative peace with itself as a whole, when there is such a totally growing disconnect from the people leading and making decisions for those citizens and the people themselves being adversely affected by the decisions of this fractionally small number of decision makers? I also wonder how this candidate for the Supreme Court of the United States could still be acceptable to a majority of Americans unless the majority of Americans are also completely out of touch with the basically time honored principles of our basic foundational laws established at our conception, or these polls are just blatantly false and manipulative?

Case in point….

July 15, 2010
Americans Favor Confirming Kagan to High Court, 44% to 34%
Would be first recent nominee to win approval with less than majority public support
by Jeffrey M. Jones

PRINCETON, NJ — More Americans want the Senate to vote for rather than against Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court, but the percentage in favor is less than a majority. Support for Kagan’s confirmation remains essentially the same as it was before her June confirmation hearings.

2010 May-July Trend: As You May Know, Solicitor General Elena Kagan Is the Person Nominated to Serve on the Supreme Court. Would You Like to See the Senate Vote in Favor of Kagan Serving on the Supreme Court, or Not?

Typically, support for nominees does not change much after their hearings. Instead, Gallup usually finds increases in the percentage of Americans opposed and decreases in the percentage with no opinion. The percentage without an opinion on the Kagan nomination was the same before and after her hearings, which may indicate these were not widely followed by the average American.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Kagan’s nomination next week, with the full Senate voting later this summer. Kagan is expected to be confirmed, given the Senate’s large Democratic majority.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/141329/Americans-Favor-Confirming-Kagan-High-Court.aspx?utm_source=tagrss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_term=USA

How can one explain a Ted Kennedy, a Robert Byrd, an Arlen Specter, or even a Lindsey Graham and not believe that something has gone inexplicably and terribly wrong with our political system and even more so with the values and perceptions of too many Americans to allow, and to have allowed, these so called “representatives” remain in office repeatedly?

]]> By: drtom03http://robertringer.com/2010/07/the-next-arlen-specter/#comment-3402 drtom03 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:34:55 +0000 http://blog.robertringer.com/?p=1318#comment-3402 Lindsey Graham "naive"? No! "Stupid"? Absolutely! "Evil"? I hope not, but??? Lindsey Graham “naive”? No!

“Stupid”? Absolutely!

“Evil”? I hope not, but???

]]> By: Satirhttp://robertringer.com/2010/07/the-next-arlen-specter/#comment-3401 Satir Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:14:21 +0000 http://blog.robertringer.com/?p=1318#comment-3401 I love the tea party movement, but it makes some real mistakes in candidate choice. Sharon Angle be perhaps the worst. The leading Republican candidate before Sharon's Tea Party rise would surely have beaten the despicable Reid. It is doubtful that Sharon will. The election of Scott Brown has certainly been a Republican disaster. His obsequious approach to the President is RHINO at its best. And, speaking of Lindsey Graham, he has been far right of the silly old wonmen from Maine, i.e., Snowe and Collins, who have made a practice of sellinhg out their party and their nation. I am astounded that neither you, Newsmax, Fox News, or the Republican Senate leadership have launched an attack on these two. They gave us the horrible health care bill, and with Brown's help, a new bank bill that is only slightly less bad than the health care bill. The problem with ideological enthusiasm is that it is often neither pragmatic or impirical. I love the tea party movement, but it makes some real mistakes in candidate choice. Sharon Angle be perhaps the worst. The leading Republican candidate before Sharon’s Tea Party rise would surely have beaten the despicable Reid. It is doubtful that Sharon will.
The election of Scott Brown has certainly been a Republican disaster. His obsequious approach to the President is RHINO at its best.
And, speaking of Lindsey Graham, he has been far right of the silly old wonmen from Maine, i.e., Snowe and Collins, who have made a practice of sellinhg out their party and their nation.
I am astounded that neither you, Newsmax, Fox News, or the Republican Senate leadership have launched an attack on these two. They gave us the horrible health care bill, and with Brown’s help, a new bank bill that is only slightly less bad than the health care bill.
The problem with ideological enthusiasm is that it is often neither pragmatic or impirical.

]]> By: Chuck Hinnershttp://robertringer.com/2010/07/the-next-arlen-specter/#comment-3400 Chuck Hinners Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:59:27 +0000 http://blog.robertringer.com/?p=1318#comment-3400 We spend half our year in South Carolina and half in the socialist state of Wisconsin. Graham and his ilk don't want to govern, they actually want to rule I have long defined moderates as those who stand for nothing and will therefore fall for anything. As a claque they helped install this charlatan who would be emperor driven by decades of guilt with a promise of change Change to what? Why more government, of course. Change will begin only by liquidating most of the government we now have, and it will happen, either by the ballot box or citizen’s coup We spend half our year in South Carolina and half in the socialist state of Wisconsin. Graham and his ilk don’t want to govern, they actually want to rule
I have long defined moderates as those who stand for nothing and will therefore fall for anything. As a claque they helped install this charlatan who would be emperor driven by decades of guilt with a promise of change
Change to what? Why more government, of course. Change will begin only by liquidating most of the government we now have, and it will happen, either by the ballot box or citizen’s coup

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