The Inaugural “Dear Lord, Give Me a Break” Thread
By SusanUnPC on February 14, 2009 at 4:10 PM in Tax stimulus package
THEY ARE HEROES, ALL!
Oh the waxing over the heroics of the plucky, stouthearted Dudley-Do-Right-ingness of Arlen Specter, lauded by the spoony Obama-obsessive lyrical liberal blogger Steve Benen — who makes Susan bang her forehead on her desk and reach for her barf bag:
PROFILES IN COURAGE…. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) was, of course, one of only three Republican lawmakers in Congress to support the economic stimulus bill. To hear him tell it, however, some of Specter’s GOP colleagues wanted to vote for the package, but didn’t think they could get away with it politically. …
On the moving account by Mr. Specter of Mr. Specter’s own TRUE GRIT:
“When I came back to the cloak room after coming to the agreement a week ago today,” said Specter, “one of my colleagues said, ‘Arlen, I’m proud of you.’ My Republican colleague said, ‘Arlen, I’m proud of you.’ I said, ‘Are you going to vote with me?’ And he said, ‘No, I might have a primary.’ And I said, ‘Well, you know very well I’m going to have a primary.’” [...]
On the more self-sacrificing, truer heroism of Joe Lieberman who UNSELFISHLY came to the aid of His President, despite the nasty, mean things The President had said about the valiant and altruistic Connecticut senator during the campaigns — although now that is all forgiven and forgotten:
Lieberman played a crucial role in talking several Republicans off the ledge [OFF THE LEDGE! WOAH!], thereby vindicating President Obama’s refusal to be vindictive toward the Connecticut Senator, who had some nasty things to say about Obama and Democrats in general during the presidential campaign.
So sayeth the so-insightful Joe Klein for Time’s Swampland blog, who addeth:
“Those who wonder about the President’s efforts to be nice to Republicans–a singularly ungracious lot, cult-like in their devotion to failed economic policies past–should bear this particular example in mind as we go forward.”
Which brings us to the REAL hero …. The One, The Only, The REAL HERO (never mind that his bipartisanship worked on three Republicans out of 234 Republicans total in the Congress!):
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, the HEROES of the 2009 bah…bah….bah….billions of dollars of stimulus that nobody knows where or what it’s doing except the lobbyists, ahem, who wrote the damn 1,000+-page tome. (God, I wish I had it. I could use it as a foot stool!)
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A BONUS ADDITION TO THE
“Dear Lord, Give Me A Break” Post
On the subject header in the e-mail from Conde Nast publications — which made Susan’s mouth gape wide open:
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