Stay classy, Arlen.

New Democrat Arlen Specter, freshly buoyed by polls suggesting that soulless, morally empty, completely naked political maneuvering solely in the service of getting re-elected usually works like gangbusters, decided to spend some of the political capital...blaming his former party for the death of Jack Kemp. Did John Boehner poison the former VP candidate? Did Gingrich forget Kemp's safe word during an extra rough BDSM session? Is Sarah Palin concealing a dagger with Kemp's blood on it? No, Republicans are to blame for not curing cancer.

And one of the items that I'm working on, Bob, is funding for medical research. I've been the spear carrier to increase medical research.
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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.

Now, as the New York Times pointed out in a column today, when you talk about life and death and medical research, that's a much more major consideration on what I can do, continuing in the Senate, contrasted with which party I belong to.

Gracelessly executed, Senator. Now I'm not one for absolving Republicans of blame for everything, in fact I blamed all Republicans for an unfortunate toe stubbing this morning, but I would have at least fired off a few tin eared shots about "lazy, goldbricking cancer doctors" before moving on to the entire Republican party. Now Republicans take blame on stem cell related diseases and their opposition to universal health care (whoops, you're against that too Arlen), but I'm not ready to blame them for cancer not being cured unless you have some solid evidence of Eric Cantor smashing up a research lab with a baseball bat.

I'm glad this is what he decided to bring to the Democratic Party. Classless cheap shots, standing for all the same garbage he used to stand for, and an increased chance that Harry Reid will walk in on him and Joe Lieberman wanking it to pictures of themselves. What ever would we do without Arlen? Someone please present a primary challenge to this guy.