Ethics

Idiot of the Month: Arlen Specter

By Ed Brayton

I have long loathed Arlen Specter. He's pretty much a spineless jellyfish as a politician, a man who, over and over again, makes speeches full of bold principles and then votes against those same principles. And frankly, the Democratic party should have told him to go to hell when he decided to switch parties purely to get himself reelected (and go Joe Sestak, beat the hell out of him in next year's primary).

So why has my ire been raised against him again? Because as usual he is capitulating to right wing demagoguery, this time over this nonsensical "death book" bullshit. He's actually talking about submitting legislation to ban that book:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 27, 2009 (boomark / email).