The Underground Conservative

Folks, we can’t make stuff like this up.

Sen. Arlen “Magic Bullet” Specter says the priorities of the Republican Party helped contribute to the death of former GOP Rep. Jack Kemp, who passed away over the weekend after a long battle with cancer.

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.

Ed Morrissey says the turncoat went too far in this silly partisan accusation.

During Republican control of Congress, federal spending on health research and regulation increased 46% after inflation, from $49 billion a year to $72 billion a year, or about 7% increase each year. That’s almost the same rate of increase as Defense spending got in the same period (48%), when we actually had a real war on our hands, and not a political contrivance for excusing federal spending.

And Specter wonders why he can’t get within 20 points of Pat Toomey in a primary race?

Here’s the actual numbers courtesy of The Heritage Foundation.

Michelle Malkin adds:

[I]t’s one thing for far Left bloggers to go bananas and blame the Republican Party for killing people because they opposed increased federal spending on principle — as the dextrosphere did last week over swine flu funding in the porkulus.

Arlen Specter, Turncoat-Pennsylvania, takes it to a whole ‘nother level — blaming Republicans for not adopting his research spending priorities and actually exploiting Jack Kemp’s death from cancer to take a shot at fiscal conservatives.

Reason number 999,769 we are glad Specter has taken off the elephant costume and made his conversion to Ass-dom official.