Arlen And Joe-- Thick As Thieves

Last night The Hill ran a strange little piece, Renegade Lieberman Works Well With Obama. It piqued my interest because the only stuff I've seen on Lieberman lately was how he had joined his GOP allies in urging Obama to "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" and then his attack on Obama's concept of health care reform. "Seven months after nearly becoming politically irrelevant, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is working closely with a president he actively campaigned against and is playing a leading role in moving major pieces of legislation through the upper chamber..." Blah, blah, blah and then 'Bottom line, yes, I’ll continue to selectively support Republicans.' He supports Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) for reelection and strongly suggests he would have backed him regardless of what political party he belonged to."

It doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Like Lieberman, Specter also takes immense sums of money from special corporate interests with business before the Senate. Lieberman accepted $2,391,719 from the Medical-Industrial Complex and $1,036,302 from the Insurance Industry; Specter, took in $4,026,933 from the Medical-Industrial Complex and $1,035,530 from the Insurance Industry-- two of the worst hypocrites and biggest crooks to ever disgrace the U.S. Senate. Of course they support each other-- and of course they both oppose-- violently-- single payer health care reform or even the compromise position of a public option. And President Obama supports them both.

And if you wonder how bad of a "Democrat" Specter will be should Ed Rendell, Joe Biden and, sigh, Barack Obama manage to put him over on Democratic primary voters, look past even Joe Lieberman to two of the slimiest political operatives anywhere in the U.S., the Democratic ex-boss of Erie County Steve Pigeon and old pal (and wife swapper) Roger Stone. Why bother? Well, glad you asked.

Pigeon, the worst the Democratic Party has to offer, worked with tax evader Tom Golisano to flip the New York State Senate to the Republicans, axing the first African-American Senate leader in New York state history, the express reason for the fence jump by one of the two treacherous and degenerate Democrats who did the switcheroo. Pigeon is hosting a fund-raiser for Arlen Specter on June 30 in New York City. Roger Stone, a GOP sleazebag, who threw his own funder for Specter in February was in on the NY Senate coup with Golisano and Pigeon. Really revolting. What would you expect from Arlen Specter? Just that he'll show up with Joe Lieberman on one arm and Barack Obama on the other.

Markos has a screenshot of the actual invitation-- in case you want to show up and picket the anti-health care crowd. By the way, Menendez is privating claiming that no one asked him for permission to use his name. Markos also mentions how much more attractive Joe Sestak is looking everyday and points out that "it's not so surprising that snakes without values or convictions end up flocking together. And heck, with Specter, Pigeon knows he'd have a candidate who would switch parties again in a snuff if it came time to protect the prerogatives of his rich and powerful benefactors."