The Specter of Voter Anger: Arlen

Today's post is a reprint from my post of well over a year ago: 4-28-09.

Arlen switched parties back then, in part, to "win reelection"...he thought he was so clever and it seems to have backfired on him. He wanted to be on the bandwagon with the new president and benefit from his popularity. He'd been voting with the donkeys for a long time, he just chose then to make it official and marry the jackass and take the name, officially.

All his dutiful obligations to President Obama and the far-left political radical agenda went unnoticed, it seems. He voted with Obama on bailouts, health care, and all the rest, and lo and behold, couldn't even get a visit from the Messiah on election day: instead Obama went on a plant tour in nearby Ohio, not even mentioning the race that meant so much to dear Arlen.

I can't say I'm crying any over this one; just shaking my head. When, oh when will they learn? Obama will still carry on as if none of this mid-term business means a thing to him: after all he knows his days are numbered: he has to inflict as much of his radical ideas onto us in the form of bad legislation before the floors of Congress are scrubbed of his majority, rendering him impotent.

 /ˈspɛktər/ [spek-ter]
–noun
1.
a visible incorporeal spirit, esp. one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
2.
some object or source of terror or dread: the specter of disease or famine.

Good bye, Arlen. Can't say that I'll miss you. After all, you've not been a Republican, save for the "R" following your name on the roll call for many decades now. You've just been a ghost, an apparition to us for a long time. Now, you're back from where you came: the ranks of the democrats, and turning is something you've tried before.

It's not a surprise to see that you've left us for your liberal friends on the left side of the aisle, where you truly belong. After all, earlier this year when you ignored the will of the people and voted with the new socialists in power by saying yes to the "stimulus package" without even reading the contents, all to help give the new regime with their first victory over the people, we knew you'd only been hanging around perhaps because of a sense of obligation to those who've helped you get where you are.

Now, you've shown us your true colors and we're glad to have jettisoned you off to your own true home. You've shown us that's where your heart is. Good luck over there, may they welcome you with open arms (and I'm sure a gift or a prize that is a token of their appreciation for all the hard work you've been doing for years on their behalf is forthcoming).

Meanwhile, your sort will be used as an example for years to come to teach exactly the definition is that of a self-serving politician; more interested in re election than in being a leader or a statesman that the people who elected him can be proud of.