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LaUser wrote:...The primary job of congress it to get re-elected. It is not to represent the people back home.

I can't help myself...
Are you serious? So I take it he's doing a fine job by doing whatever is necessary to get re-elected above all else?

TheArmedFarmer wrote:Ahem. His guy is Ron Paul, who is without a doubt the single and only person in the Federal Congress who is NOT part of the problem.

1,000,000,000%

I don't always agree with everything Ron Paul says, but he definitely has convictions and sticks to them. He is not a lying dirty thief like most of the rest of them. I have tremendous respect for the guy.

I just saw this and started gigling like a schoolgirl:
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The Annoyed Man wrote:...Exactly as he did in 1965, when he switched from being a Democrat to being a Republican.

Well, Harry Reid is allowing Specter to keep his seniority. It will be as if he was a Democrat ever since 1980, when he was first elected Senator. He gets a juicy committee chair, and everything. What does this say? It says that he was bought and paid for by the Democrat party. It never was about his principles - 'cause he ain't got any.

EXACTLY! The swine in Washington gravitate to the fullest trough, gorge themselves until it's empty, then move to the next. Meanwhile we just get empty pockets and influenza!

He voted with the Democrats on the 787 billion dollar 'stimulus' bill in preparation for this. Reid giving him his seniority, etc is purely political quid pro quo for that and all his other betrayals of conservatives over the decades. I suspect this has been planned and agreed to at least that far back.

That's exactly why the Republicrats got my resignation from their party a year ago. I'm fed up with all the blurred lines, mixed morals, and values being tossed out the window for the sake of a sure win or "the lesser evil".

You can't tell most of them apart from the Democrats any more, and neither bunch is going to get my money besides what they forcibly take in taxes.

"Would that you were either cold or hot..." as the Good Book says.

As far as gun control issues go, at least if he wins again he will be a pro gun owner vote on the democrat side. His stands on other issues really fit better with that party. Republicans are probably thinking, "bad timing, but good riddance!"

As far as trying to figure out what an individual's core values are, it doesn't matter to me which party they belong to, any more. So many on both sides have tried to be "centrists" that you can't tell the difference except on an issue by issue basis.

Specter's defection doesn't change much. Hell still band up with the democrats on being fiscally irresponsible, vote in favor of destroying the definition of marriage, etc, etc. Hopefully he'll stick to voting against gun control.

And I'm praying he'll get trounced by a conservative in 2010...just doesn't look likely considering his constituency.