{"id":2113,"date":"2009-05-04T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2009-05-04T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T20:23:10","slug":"arlen-specter-classless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/04\/arlen-specter-classless\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlen Specter: Classless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By know I suspect everyone has seen or at least heard about Arlen Specter&#8217;s classless remarks about Jack Kemp on CBS&#8217; Face the Nation&#8230; On the off chance you haven&#8217;t here&#8217;s the video:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"265\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UuGvxXZhr5E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UuGvxXZhr5E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>What a bitter, angry man&#8230; I&#8217;ve come to expect this kind demagoguery from far left fringe bloggers but Arlen Specter is member of the United States Senate and supposedly part of mainstream political culture&#8230; And yet here he is taking the cheapest of cheap shot&#8217;s at Republicans. Senator Specter, with all do respect sir you are two steps lower than pond scum, the simple fact that you could not resist the urge to use a good man&#8217;s corpse as a soap box proves beyond a reasonable doubt it&#8217;s time you to retire.<\/p>\n<p>And Senator as <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/05\/04\/video-specter-says-he-would-have-cured-kemp-if-gop-had-listened\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Morrissey<\/a> points out you couldn&#8217;t be more wrong:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During Republican control of Congress, federal spending on health research and regulation increased 46% after inflation, from $49 billion a year to $72 billion a year, or about 7% increase each year. That\u2019s almost the same rate of increase as Defense spending got in the same period (48%), when we actually had a real war on our hands, and not a political contrivance for excusing federal spending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/specter_republicans_killed_kem.html\" target=\"_blank\">Specter: Republicans killed Kemp<\/a>, Rick Moran, American Thinker<span class=\"home_author\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By know I suspect everyone has seen or at least heard about Arlen Specter&#8217;s classless remarks about Jack Kemp on CBS&#8217; Face the Nation&#8230; On the off chance you haven&#8217;t here&#8217;s the video: What a bitter, angry man&#8230; I&#8217;ve come to expect this kind demagoguery from far left fringe bloggers but Arlen Specter is member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[464,644],"class_list":{"0":"post-2113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"tag-arlen-specter","8":"tag-jack-kemp","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-y5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2260,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/rep-joe-sestak-to-chalenge-arlen-specter\/","url_meta":{"origin":2113,"position":0},"title":"Rep. 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