Crush Liberalism

How badly must one suck in order to have Arlen Sphincter (RINO-PA) question one’s mental acumen?  From the Washington Times:

Sen. Arlen Specter today challenged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s ability to serve as leader, saying the Nevada Democrat sabotaged progress on long-stalled spending and taxes bills by calling Republican lawmakers “puppets” for President Bush.

“I really wonder if he’s up to the job when he resorts to that kind of statement, which can only further the level of rancor and animosity with that kind of an insulting comment,” Mr. Specter, Pennsylvania Republican, said on the Senate floor.

The criticism punctuated the stalemate in the Democrat-led Congress, which is fast approaching the end of the session without a fix to tax increases set to clobber middle-class families next month and without passing 11 of the 12 annual appropriation bills for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.

Meanwhile, Mr. Reid is poised to call another vote linking emergency war funds to a plan for a U.S. pullout from Iraq. The same measure failed in a vote lost month, as did 63 similar Iraq votes this year.

Quips Bryan at Hot Air:

By all means, Sen. Reid, let’s have surrender vote #64 even while things are looking up in Iraq. Let’s hammer the middle class with a tax hike and call the people that you need to bail you out “puppets.” Let’s lay off thousands of defense workers in the middle of a war. That’s some brilliant statecraft you’ve got working there.

No wonder Reid’s approval ratings in Nevada are abyssmal.