David

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February 11, 2009

Collins, Snowe and Specter: Expel the Three Treasonous Stooges

“Bipartisan”:  What Democrats want to do.

“Partisan”:  What Republicans want to do.

For many years in Washington, the above has been the practical definition of those words and not what you'll find in the dictionary. The idea that President Obama or anyone else among the Democratic leadership is the least bit interested in anything resembling Webster's rendering of these terms is simply absurd.

But this bit of obvious fact apparently still escapes the deluded senators from Maine and Pennsylvania. Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter stabbed not only their party – of which they are clearly no longer any part in their hearts – but their country in the back when they agreed to vote with the Democrats and not filibuster the $820 billion “porkulus” bill.

This bill is purely Democratic pork to pay back their base and consolidate socialist power for years, if not decades, to come. They are scarcely attempting to conceal this fact and not even the most ignorant among us should be fooled in the slightest. But Senators Specter, Collins, and Snowe – a veritable Three Stooges of politics – appear to lack the wisdom and maturity of their classic movie comedy namesakes. And what they have foisted upon the public will not be a laughing matter. (Though I confess I wouldn't mind seeing them get poked in the eyes or clonked in the cranium with a big wooden mallet.)

So the next question is simply this: What to do with them? Can these three be allowed to get away with such a betrayal? Moreover, if the Republican Party is so utterly spineless as to let this go without sanction, is there really any purpose to its continued existence? If these three can pull this garbage and suffer no consequence, the GOP will have advertised to the world that it truly stands for absolutely nothing. Their new motto can come from Kevin Bacon in Animal House: Thank you sir, may I have another? Thank you sir, may I have another?

The only purpose there ever was to allowing liberals like Collins, Snowe and Specter in the party in spite of all their wandering off the reservation was that they would still cast a few keys votes when numbers fell at important dividing points – e.g. a Republican as majority leader when the Senate was divided 50-50; with the party when at or near 60-40 to stop or end filibusters. 

Neither one of these reasons exists anymore. Democrats presently have 58 votes, and with this betrayal, these three have proven they can't even be counted on to uphold filibusters. As such, they have demonstrated themselves to be completely expendable.

These senators have also proven themselves to be liars by claiming a party label to which they have no legitimate right whatsoever. And if they won't be either honest or honorable enough to simply switch to the party with whom they already vote the overwhelming share of the time anyway, then they must be held accountable from without. They can lie to themselves all they want about being “Republicans,” but that doesn't mean anyone else should participate in their ridiculous delusions.

Nor should the GOP leadership put itself in the aforementioned fraternity hazing position by allowing itself to be repeatedly held hostage by these three on vote after vote, while they have the gall to swing the wooden paddle at the party's posterior. The traitorous trio has walked out onto a thin tree limb, and it's up to the party to saw it off behind them and make them fall.

Can any party get back into power by demonstrating more impotence and cowardice than MLB Commissioner Bud Selig toward steroids? And if they don't even have the spine to deal harshly with renegade senators, why should anyone believe they'll be so toward terrorists?

Senators Specter, Collins and Snowe must therefore be expelled from the Republican Senate caucus forthwith. The party's credibility and ability to function as a cohesive unit is on the line, not to mention the future well-being of the nation.

The Democrats are hell-bent on ramming communism down America's throat, and, while it may not last much longer, at this moment the Republican Party, such as it is, is still the last best vessel through which to mount the vociferous and vigorous opposition needed. This cannot happen so long as there are those inside the gates aiding and abetting the enemy.

Paging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and new RNC Chairman Michael Steele: Please pick up the courtesy phone. Your mutual immediate attention is required.

If this does not happen, we'll have to add another unofficial definition to the lexicon:

“Republican”: 1. A former political party in America that once stood for conservatism. 2. What too many liberal northeastern senators were allowed to pretend to be, which more than anything else caused the party's death.

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