College Dems Eat Scrapple

By: emptywheel Thursday July 23, 2009 11:25 am

WTF is the DNC

Steelworkers Don’t Like Scrapple

By: emptywheel Wednesday June 24, 2009 11:50 am

The Steelworkers just uninvited Arlen Specter from a speaking gig and replaced him with Joe Sestak.

Scrapple and Pelosi

By: emptywheel Wednesday May 20, 2009 4:04 pm

Yes, I’m glad that Arlen “the Scrapple formerly known as Haggis” Specter has come out in support of Nancy Pelosi’s suggestion that CIA misled her in her September 2002 briefing.

“The CIA has a very bad record when it comes to — I was about to say ‘candid’; that’s too mild — to honesty,” Specter, a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a lunch address to the American Law

From “Haggis” to “Scrapple”–It’s Still Offal

By: emptywheel Tuesday April 28, 2009 4:32 pm

I’m renaming Haggis “Scrapple.” Beyond the name change, I doubt much has changed.

Call for the Senate to Vote for Process at OLC–and Dawn Johnsen

By: emptywheel Thursday March 12, 2009 6:39 am

Dawn Johnsen is being considered in SJC today. When the Republicans start making incendiary claims about her, call them and remind them that, unlike John Yoo, she has promised to use a non-politicized method to put respect for the law back in OLC memos.

Spanking Spak and Spec

By: emptywheel Wednesday March 4, 2009 12:52 pm

Arlen “Scottish Haggis” Specter has debased himself to fronting for the intellectually flaccid Hans von Spakovsky. Really. Is this what the conservative movement has come to?

Senate Judiciary Hearing on Truth Commission Liveblog

By: emptywheel Wednesday March 4, 2009 6:59 am

The Senate Judiciary Committee with host some “wise men” to help them figure out how our nation comes to grips with the crimes committed in the last eight years.

People Might LIKE Haggis, But They Don’t Want to Eat It

By: emptywheel Thursday February 12, 2009 9:24 am

People in PA generally approve of the job that Arlen “Scottish Haggis” Specter is doing. But they don’t exactly want him to keep doing it–particularly not the Independents his mushy centrism is supposed to attract.

The Senate State Secrets Bill

By: emptywheel Wednesday February 11, 2009 3:54 pm

The protectors of the Constitution in the Senate also introduced a State Secrets Bill today.

Wanted: An Ask for Phone Calls

By: emptywheel Saturday February 7, 2009 12:02 pm

When will Obama actually ask the millions of people on his email list to actually make calls to Congress?

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