By FITSNews || As we’ve noted on several previous occasions, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (one ‘L,’ two ‘N’s') is crazy … but she’s our kind of crazy.
Specifically, she pisses off all the right people, which combined with her wild eyes and cougariffic bod have made her a fixture in our founding editor’s fantasy life – which is surprisingly replete with “intact” middle-aged Talbots’ aficionados.
Anyway, as much as that description might be considered disrespectful in some circles, it’s got nothing on the disrespect shown toward Bachmann this week by U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (D – Pennsylvania) on a Pittsburgh radio show.
“I’ll treat you like a lady, so act like one,” Specter snapped at Bachmann after she interrupted him during a particularly heated exchange.
“I am a lady,” Bachman replied.
Later in the exchange, an angry Specter again instructs Bachmann to “act like a lady.”
“I think I am a lady,” Bachmann replies.
“I think you are too, that’s why I’m treating you like one. But just don’t interrupt me,” Specter says.
Here’s the exchange if you want to listen to it over on Real Clear Politics …
UPDATE: Is it just us or does Sen. Specter sound a) like he’s regretting switching parties right about now and b) like he just swallowed a friggin’ bowl full of marbles?
“Wrrrrrrararrararr Rarrrarrwrrr. Act Like A Lady Wrrrr-arararrrr.”
By countryboy January 22, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Arlen Specter is a worthless P.O.S.
By Brandon January 22, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Once again, what a waste of Chemo.
By Liberty For Me January 22, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Spector is too funny….What a cray old coot.Thank god the tides are turning and lots of scumbags like him will be hitting the bricks for good.
By Katherine Jenerette January 22, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Can’t anyone see what Senator Specter was doing? This had nothing to do with manners or interruptions; arguments are called arguments because they are arguments. Specter was trying to put U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann ‘in her place.’ A lady is supposed to shut up when A MAN is talking. Get it?
Act like a lady is a pretty clear message.
Try this one on Arlen: “Don’t patronize me Senator I want you to treat me like a Congressman. Get it? You need to treat me just like any other fat-face-looking-like-I need-a-shave Congressman from Massachusetts or Montana or any place you pick in between!”
Come to think of it, Senator Specter acts like he would fit in SC perfectly: A lady is supposed to shut up when ‘A Good Old Boy’ is talking. Get it?
You go Michele!
By Darl in PA January 22, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Sadly, this cooter has been messing up my home state for years, flip flopping on the the voters he “represents”. I was fortunate enough to be one of the 400 who were allowed into the town hall meeting in State College, PA and I was thinking I needed a barf bag for it. The mood that day was one of resentment, betrayal, and disgust. Something else interesting….look up the origins of his family tree and what his father was….things that make you go WTF!. It will be a refreshing wind of change when this “good ol boy” goes away. I believe the spew is hitting the fan blades and now he is having a hard time wiping it off himself. Peace to all and prepare in silent vigilance while educating all those you can!
By Tyler J January 22, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Kinda like when Henry Brown told Linda Ketner to ‘act like a southern lady’, right? But it was cool when he did because he had an ‘R’ behind his name and he was attacking a gay woman.
Face it, Bachmann is out of her skull crazy. There’s only a few districts that tweety bird could get re-elected in. Ones her home district and the rest are here in SC.
I mean do they hand out crazy-juice for free at these tea parties?
By SnakeMD January 22, 2010 at 6:36 pm
I would like to see Senator Specter tangle with Kombat Katherine. He would probably be more comfortable doing a HALO jump. Katherine, can you lend him your USASOC, Military Free Fall Parachute Badge?
S.MD
Co C. 20th SF Grp (Abn)
1st SF
By Old Bike Dude January 22, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Katherine, baby, I would expect a military officer to exhibit better judgement when it comes to personnel evaluations. Your inability to recognize someone with such serious mental and judgmental flaws as Michele Bachmann would gain you a substandard Fitness Report from my class of officers. Such political pandering and gutless opportunism is dangerous and can result in catastrophy…but wait…it already has occurred.
Look honey I respect your accomplishments in the modern Army and your previous sports accolades are certainly well earned. As a former mop triathlete I certainly appreciated the rare course encounter with a hot tri-chick.
So sweetie, keep it real, we’re all pulling for your political success. But don’t offend those of us who are also military officers (or former) by weilding your support to some fucktard senator simply based on breast, regardless of political affiliation.
Respectfully
Old Bike Dude
ps I’d gladly draft on your wheel anyday.
By Stephen R Maloney January 22, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Arlen Specter is showing his age; he would be 80 if he were re-elected, which God being good as the nuns told me long ago, he will not be. His goal in life is to be another Senator Byrd, 95-ish, asleep and drooling, wearing adult diapers, and doddering in for votes on bills whose content is a mystery to him. Michele Bachmann is one tough lady. She’s sort of like a Minnesota version of . . . Katherine Jenerette. Trust me, if those two are in Congress together, the leftists will flee when they see them at a distance. Incidentally, it’s warming up in Pittsburgh. I think it might be as high as 19 degrees.
By Katherine Jenerette January 22, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Dear Old Bike Dude, SnakeMD et al,
Preamble: We just have to stop meeting like this.
Anyway B-Dude, if I manage to get to be a Congressman, I still want to be treated just like any other “fat-face-looking-like-I need-a-shave-Congressman’ with or without anatomical allowances or exceptions.
Unlike you, too many guys carry theirs in a pink purse.
Just flew from Ft. Bragg to cold [expletive deleted] Ft. McCoy, Wisconsin. No time to think of clever answers so, that’s all for now – Katherine
P.S. Snake, No HALO yet – Jumpmaster and Air Assault this Spring.
By SnakeMD January 22, 2010 at 10:51 pm
To: OldBikeDude
“…my class of officers” Is your right arm longer than your left, from patting yourself on the back?
“…your accomplishments in the *modern* Army.” Are you implying that Mrs. Jenerette’s accomplishments in today’s Army is perhaps different than those of the *old* Army?
“the rare course encounter with a hot tri-chick” Hmmm, this statement speaks volumes about your core values.
So, O.B.Dude, you definitely are trying hard to keep the Good-Old-Boy Club alive. Instead of drafting on her back tire why don’t you try a nighttime HALO jump with her instead. The last time I checked the ground from up there looked the same–regardless if you are old school or a modern All American.
de oppresso liber
By Dooner Samples January 23, 2010 at 8:18 am
Michele Bachmann is bold, brilliant, beautiful. She stands her ground & defends the Bill of Rights. Old Specter thinks a “lady” belongs in a trunk in Ira Einhorn’s closet.
By Say So January 23, 2010 at 10:34 am
Ktherine: I noted when you said “if I manage to be a congressman”. Did you say about 4 elections ago “if I manage to be a school board member”?
By Old Bike Dude January 23, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Dear snake in the grass, let me break it down for you little man. Specter was trying to be polite with bachmann as she was being not only impolite but disrespectful. What she needed was a healthy dose of “shut the fuck up bitch” but alas poor Arlen couldn’t bring himself to issue it. Katherine knows full well the folly of marching lock step with the likes of bachmann. Bachmann is a devious, malicious, beeoch devoid of human decency or social acceptance.
Oh and btw asshat any military achievement that you and sweet Katherine may have found, I’ve done in spades. Unless your counting your 10,000 hours of playing Call of Duty and then I’ll admit you’ve got me on that one.
By Old Bike Dude January 23, 2010 at 3:26 pm
@Katherine, baby I like you. You’ve got a promising future, so don’t fuck it up (expletive not deleted). But really, take your rebuke like a soldier and move on. Old Army for me,no…Old Corps Marine Corps, yes. But your officer training could serve you well if you’ll simply remember that you took an oath to support and defend the constitution of the United States. As such you are a great patriot. As a defender of Michele Bachmann you become a cheapened partisan. Put your country and constitution first and leave the political granstanding to bachmann and Joe Wilson. Patriots are always in demand and are admired as such. Partisans are intermmittant at best and their luster dulls quickly. Say, by the way, where are those stalwart partisans ie Gingrich, Armey, Graham and the long list of democrats who couldn’t see beyond their next convention.
Train hard and think twice about those you wish to defend. My advice is to stick with defending the American people and the constitution.
btw I prefer my Griffen tri bike but I do drag the LeMond out occassionally. Care to ride?
By James the Foot Soldier January 23, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Republicans across the fruited plane should thank God Arlen is now a democrat – his descent to the democrat party in April 2009 was the key move that gave the democrats 60 votes and FULL ownership of Washington and thus FULL responsibility for the resulting destruction of the American economy.
That said – the demeaning attitiude of that waste of chemo towards Representative Bachmann is an open window to the heart of Arlen – a cold and bitter heart.
Dude, defending an ass-hole like Arlen reveals what a total ass-hole you are as well.
By Old Bike Dude January 23, 2010 at 7:14 pm
James that’s “asshole sir” to you. And learn to read, I not once defended Spector.
And is that the 2nd or 3rd mention of a waste of chemo. Is this something Limbaugh said or are you guys Bauer supporters, I mean somebody voted for the sonofabitch.
By SnakeMD January 23, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Mr. OldBikeDude writes above: Oh and btw asshat any military achievement that you and sweet Katherine may have found, I’ve done in spades. Unless your counting your 10,000 hours of playing Call of Duty and then I’ll admit you’ve got me on that one.
Mr. OldBike Dude,
I find your remarks insulting and without merit. I merely mentioned in my previous post that I find most of your remarks sexist, disrespectful, and offensive. And I said all of this without name calling, nor did I use expletives. I will say that most of your posts throughout these forums do have the same vulgar tone.
I’m a bit puzzled as to why you seem to get off on personally attacking a current member and officer of the U.S. Armed Forces. If you claim to be Devil Dog, as you mentioned above, you certainly do not exhibit the “esprit de corps” of the military I have been involved with.
Also, your braggadocio of saying that you have “done in spades” over what Mrs. Jenerette has found is sophomoric. You certainly have no insight into my or her resume. I will tell you that in the last 12 years of my involvement at The Citadel I have never met any soldier, sailor, or airman who boasts like you, my friend. (in the classroom, field or bar)
The closest I have ever been to being a Marine is when I received my HOG’s tooth, 7.62mm at graduatioin from Quantico S/S School. The guys in my class were highly professional warriors who kept their friends and families close. Your traits certainly do not resemble “the quiet professionals” that I know. And as for Call of Duty, I’m assuming you are referring to a video game? The last and only video game I have ever played was Packman in a bar outside of Ft. Bragg.
Today’s modern Army is involved in a full-spectrum modernization–developing a Future Combat Systems (FCS) that will allow us the unprecedented capability to engage the enemy on our terms and defeat him on the 21st century battlefield. And that, my friend, takes a different and special type of soldier. You might not like it, but Mrs. Jenerette represents the face of that Future Force. (I do not know, nor have I ever met her)
So, Mr.OldBike Dude you can slam me again and again, but if you must, please send it via email directly to me. I give FITS permission to post it. SnakeDoctr@aol.com
And if I may match you on quotes, I would like to quote Colonel Arthur D. “Bull” Simons the founding member of the 6th Ranger Battalion.
“…the likes of you don’t offend me, ’cause I got chunks of guys like you in my stool…”
By Rick January 25, 2010 at 10:16 am
Speak it Snake….OBD reminds me of Marines I served with that hadn’t done shit but trying to impress you with his prowness. A hero in his own mind. Old Corps/New Corps….all Marine Corps. Ignore him and eventually he’ll go away.
By SnakeMD January 25, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Rick,
OBD and I have made up. We met each other halfway. He admitted that the only reason that Marines go to sea is that sailors need someone to dance with. And perhaps I am to thin skinned when folks challenge me. I have a few more classes to go before I finish my anger management course. And I do admit that I was probably drunk when I wrote the above post. So, I will try to be a better contributor here at FITSNEWS. Now, If I just could get Katherine to go shooting with me!
By friendofyourfriend January 28, 2010 at 7:16 am
Has everyone forgotten that Specter was always a Republican until 2009 when it was to try to save his job? Specter was elected to the Senate in 1980 and earlier had helped formulate and promote the Magic Bullet theory that was pushed as true in the Warren Commission fiction. All the Republicans should have been pleased with Specter’s work in the Senate as well as how he helped grill Anita Hill to get Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. Specter has worked against Democrats all of his career and this should mean more to Republicans than a little snippiness he and joanie-come-lately Bachman might have incurred. Specter switched parties like Lieberman did when he lost to Lamont and the people in Connecticut voted for him because Lieberman sent plenty of pork in the form of military funding for subs. Republicans love Lieberman even though they called him Loserman in 2000 when the Supreme Court stopped the recount when Gore won. Specter has merely switched parties because he thought it would help his career. Nobody on the left trusts Specter because he will always act like he’s going to do something that might be right but in the end always followed the Republican party line. Everyone knows the switch was made to help him keep his job. It probably won’t work even if he hadn’t switched. Why does someone as old as that even want the job anymore whether working for the people or the corporations?