specter of pennsylvania

2010 is going to be very ugly for Democrats:

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is losing to all three of his Republican challengers, according to a new Rasmussen survey, another sign that 2010 is shaping up to be a very tough year for Democratic incumbents.

Bennet is now the fifth Democratic senator to be trailing Republican opposition in recent public polls, joining Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Sens. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.

When the party totally ignores the will of its base then this is the price they pay. We saw it with the Republicans over the past couple of years and now we’ll see it with the Democrats.

Arlen Specter was on FOX News this morning and had some interesting things to say regarding the leak case. The following is from Forbes:

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should speak publicly about their involvement in the CIA leak case so people can understand what happened, a leading Republican senator said Sunday.

"We ought to get to the bottom of it so it can be evaluated by the American people," said Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

"There's been enough of a showing that the president of the United States owes a specific explanation to the American people ... about exactly what he did," Specter said.

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"I think it is necessary for the president and vice president to tell the American people exactly what happened," Specter told "Fox News Sunday."

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"There has to be a detailed explanation as to precisely what Vice President Cheney did, what the president said to him and an explanation by the president as to what he said," Specter said.

It is becoming more clear that Bush is afraid to come come clean on the leak because it was motivated purely for political purposes. The simple fact that they would only release things that supported the war while hiding the overwhelming amounts of information that showed the war was not necessary proves this.

The President can declassify information but why in the hell did he not just come out and say this? We have gone through a three year investigation and now Scooter Libby is even on trial because of Bush's lies and dirty politics.