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January 21, 2010 By Fausta

Zeyala to go, Nancy rejects the Bill, and other roundup items with VIDEO

Zelaya will be leaving the tin foil-lined room soon: Zelaya to leave Honduras next week says adviser

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will end his four-month refuge in the Brazilian embassy and leave the country next week, when his term would have ended, his closest adviser said on Thursday.

Zelaya, a leftist who was ousted in a coup on June 28, accepted an agreement backed by the government of the Dominican Republic to travel to the Caribbean country, close Zelaya aide Rasel Tome told Radio Globo radio.

Introducing Son of No Sheeples: Mako Snark

Pelosi Rejects Senate Health Care Bill, meanwhile Obama Now Signals He Could Accept Limited Health Bill

What a guy: Specter tells Bachmann to “act like a lady”

Frank Gaffney writes about the Obama administration’s Dangerous Accommodations. While many credit the healthcare debate for Scott Brown’s victory, Andrew McCarthy points out It’s the Enemy, Stupid
National-security strength lifts Scott Brown.

Scott Brown went out and made the case for enhanced interrogation, for denying terrorists the rights of criminal defendants, for detaining them without trial, and for trying them by military commission. It worked. It will work for other candidates willing to get out of their Beltway bubbles.

Victor Davis Hanson on Our Philosopher-King Obama
He doesn’t mind pushing noble legislation that most people oppose.
Why is that?

Why, then, does the Obama administration persist with such an apparently unpopular agenda?

Like Plato’s all-knowing elite, Obama seems to feel that those he deems less informed will “suddenly” learn to appreciate his benevolent guidance once these laws are pushed through.
…
There is one other trait of this administration similar to those of utopian philosopher-kings. Our elite must have the leeway to be exempt from their own rules.

Michael Fumento asks, Why does everybody think BPA is safe but us?

Off-Air America

John Edwards finally got around to publicly admitting he’s the father

In a written statement provided exclusively to NBC News, the former North Carolina senator and Democratic presidential candidate says he’s taking responsibility for the child, Frances Quinn Hunter

Meanwhile he shamelessly promoted his wife’s book which aimed to rehabilitate him. Saint Elizabeth and the Ego Monster, indeed.

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The National Enquirer is submitting its John Edwards coverage for a Pulitzer Prize. Can’t wait for Oprah to reunite John with all his children!

BONUS
Top 10 Craziest Things Ever Said By Pat Robertson; here’s the one about spooky yoga:

Or maybe he means Yoda?

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Filed Under: Barack Obama, Democrats, health care, healthcare, John Edwards, Nancy Pelosi Tagged With: Arlen Specter, Fausta's blog, Manuel Zelaya, Mel Zelaya, Michelle Bachman

October 8, 2009 By Fausta

VIDEO Real Members of Congress: Arlen Specter, Mr. Faithful Like a Trial Lawyer

Via Scrappleface,

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Filed Under: Congress, Democrats, humor Tagged With: Arlen Specter, Fausta's blog, Scrappleface

May 8, 2009 By Fausta

Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway

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Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway

—Taking advantage of the warm spring weather Monday, Vice President Joe Biden parked his 1981 Trans Am in the White House driveway, removed his undershirt, and spent a leisurely afternoon washing the muscle car and drinking beer.

Good weather means washing the car on the driveway, and of course, baseball:

Reid Sends Specter to Democrat Farm Team

Just days after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid broke his promise to newly-Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter, stripping the Pennsylvania lawmaker of his rank on five committees, Reid announced today that he would send Specter to one of the party’s minor league franchises.

More on that and Arlen’s stats.

Speaking of baseball, I didn’t know who this guy is, but how sad that he needed Viagra.

Meanwhile, while Joe washes the car on the WH driveway and Arlen goes to the minors, Obama discovers fiscal restraint, slashes budget, since all those zeros do add up.

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Filed Under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Harry Reid, humor, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, politics Tagged With: Arlen Specter, Fausta's blog

May 6, 2009 By Fausta

“I will still respect you in the morning.”

Arlen Specter: Barack Obama was given a major political boost on the eve of his 100th day in office when Republican senator Arlen Specter announced he was defecting to the Democratic Party

Specter Stripped of Seniority.

UPDATE
Meltdown: Specter stands alone

“Sen. Reid assured me that I would keep my committee assignments and that I would have the same seniority as if I had been elected as a Democrat in 1980,” Specter said. “It was understood that the issue of subcommittee chairmanships would not be decided until after the 2010 election. Some members of the caucus have raised concerns about my seniority, so the caucus will vote on my seniority at the same time subcommittee chairmanships are confirmed after the 2010 election. I am confident my seniority will be maintained under the arrangement I worked out with Sen. Reid.”

What was that about the three biggest lies, “I’ll respect you in the morning”, “the check is in the mail,” and…?

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Filed Under: Democrats, politics, Senate Tagged With: Arlen Specter, Fausta's blog

May 4, 2009 By Fausta

Nuts, or shameless?

Arlen Specter: crazy old coot, or shameless opportunist jerk?

Specter: GOP priorities contributed to Kemp death

Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Democrat, said part of the reason he left the Republican Party last week was disillusionment with its healthcare priorities, and suggested that had the Republicans taken a more moderate track, Jack Kemp may have won his battle with cancer.

How so?

Mr. Specter continued: “If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.”

Going by that logic, then the Republicans saved your life, Arlen?

Vile.

Hat tip: Gay Patriot. Video via Jammie.

UPDATE
Welcome to Arlen, Dems:

Buyers’ remorse sets in.

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Filed Under: Democrats Tagged With: Arlen Specter, Fausta's blog, Jack Kemp

April 28, 2009 By Fausta

Specter changes parties

First he said he wouldn’t:

Sen. Arlen Specter said Tuesday that he will not run for reelection in 2010 as a Democrat, but might run as an Independent.

Today he changed his mind:

I have decided to run for re-election in 2010 in the Democratic primary.

Not that I’m surprised.

Will he receive the support he wants, having delivered a filibuster-proof majority?

Wait and see.

UPDATE
Erick wants a refund.

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Filed Under: Democrats, politics, Republicans Tagged With: Arlen Specter, Fausta's blog, Pennsylvania

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