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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: GoldieAZ on May 06, 2009, 12:49:24 AM
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The Senate last night stripped Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) of his seniority on committees, a week after the 29-year veteran of the chamber quit the Republican Party to join the Democrats.
In announcing his move across the aisle last week, Specter asserted that Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) had assured him he would retain his seniority in the Senate and on the five committees on which he serves. Specter's tenure ranked him ahead of all but seven Democrats.
Instead, though, on a voice vote last night, the Senate approved a resolution that made Specter the most junior Democrat on four committees for the remainder of this Congress. (He will rank second from last on the fifth, the Special Committee on Aging.) Reid himself read the resolution on the Senate floor, underscoring the reversal.
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Specter's office declined to comment.
The loss of seniority could prove costly to Specter in his campaign to win reelection in 2010, denying him the ability to distinguish himself from a newcomer in his ability to claim key positions.
more at link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/05/AR2009050504344.html?hpid=topnews
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Specter trusted Harry Reid...ah, they do deserve each other...and it looks like PA is going to free of him for good come 2010. :popcorn:
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Reid betrayed Specter. Reid lied? Say it ain't so! Surely, Reid knew in advance how his fellow Dems would feel about Specter leapfrogging over them in seniority.
Well, the good news is that maybe Specter will be inclined to stick it to the Democrats on some key vote in the future. And after he wins the PA Democratic primary, he may feel the need to pick up some Republican support in PA, by voting our way. So, a net plus for us, I would think.
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Reid and Specter deserve each other. Specter's reason for switching parties was that he "wasn't going to have his career decided by the Pennsylvania Republican primary".
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Karma.
The dems took in a guy known for stabbing his own party in the back. Gee, ya think they don't trust old Arlen?
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I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say. I've made a career of being precise. I conclusively misspoke."
Translation:
"I parse my language and revel in my ability to use hundreds, if not thousands of words, and have them mean nothing. This time, I ****ed up."
I sincerely hope that Pennsylvanians can wake up about this man and send him off to the geezer farm. Arlen, don't pass Go and don't collect $200. Just vacate the premises.
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Hey, Arlen? How's it taste to be Obama and Dingy Harry's bitch?
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Tom Ridge is thinking about running against Specter. :evillaugh: This election is going to be more fun than a trip to Disney! :rotf:
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He might face some primary heat from a moderate Dem. named Joe Sestak. He's a Delaware County (suburban Philly) guy who might bloody him up a little. Sestak is a former Admiral.
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Treason rewarded. Only partially, but, for once, justly.
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Treason rewarded. Only partially, but, for once, justly.
Hopefully it will be fully rewarded when he loses reelection since he no longer has the committee seniority to prop him up.
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Hey, Arlen? How's it taste to be Obama and Dingy Harry's bitch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBh5dvSbgLM
Shaq tells Arlen :evillaugh:
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Reid to Sphincter:
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He might face some primary heat from a moderate Dem. named Joe Sestak. He's a Delaware County (suburban Philly) guy who might bloody him up a little. Sestak is a former Admiral.
Sestak is a clown.
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Once again, the long knives of the left have come out. This time, I can not think of a person more deserving of the knife to the back than Specter.
Snarkle...
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Sestak is a clown.
A clown who pasted a long-term republican. This is PENNSYLVANIA we're talking about, remember.
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He might face some primary heat from a moderate Dem. named Joe Sestak. He's a Delaware County (suburban Philly) guy who might bloody him up a little. Sestak is a former Admiral.
Sestak may even deliver a knock out blow. Hey Specter, how's it going to feel to have your career in the hands of the Democrat primary voters? LOL
Hot Air's Ed Morrissey also agree's with splash...
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/05/06/senate-dems-to-specter-hello-rookie/
Democrats sent a more practical message with this vote. Specter needed to retain his seniority in order to make the argument that electing him would keep Pennsylvania in a position of power in Congress. The caucus has made it much easier for a Democratic primary challenger to beat Specter by taking that advantage away from him. It’s practically a signal flare to Joe Sestak, approving of his run against Specter.
Ed also notes that Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins may now have second thoughts about following Specter down that road. Specter got used, abused and is on his way to the ash heap of history. Bye bye (in 2010) to the indistinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania.
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Could have retired gracefully as an honored elder statesman. Instead, thanks to his craving to remain in power, he departs the stage as a failed clown.
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Could have retired gracefully as an honored elder statesman. Instead, thanks to his craving to remain in power, he departs the stage as a failed clown.
Hi,
He was always a clown so it is fitting. :rotf:
regards,
5412
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The Senate last night stripped Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) of his seniority on committees, a week after the 29-year veteran of the chamber quit the Republican Party to join the Democrats.
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Karma's a bitch!
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A clown who pasted a long-term republican. This is PENNSYLVANIA we're talking about, remember.
True, but that doesn't make him any less of a clown. This is the same guy who sucks up to CAIR and got fired by the incoming CNO (Mullen) less than 24 hours after he took over as CNO.
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Arlan, after all these years does not understand the dem leadership mind. They HATE and despise turncoats. ESPECIALLY the ones THEY turn! This is just the FIRST STEP. Arlan WILL be primaried no matter what Reid told him. Reid will shrug and tell Arlan it is not the LEADERSHIP but the "rank and file" dems who are primarying him. Then decline to endorse ANYONE, same as damning Arlan. Arlan loses, goes home in shame with a name no one will invoke except derogatorily, as in Benedict Arnold.
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lesson number one for Specter-
"REMEMBER, DUmmies LIE; ALL THE TIME, DUmmies LIE"!
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And so the betrayals begin. Arlen has to be thinking that he's been owned worse then Count Dooku
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It is pretty god damned sad that a man who has been in office for four DECADES didn't fully grasp how seniority works
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I would like to see him treated by members of both parties as a Leper.
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I would like to see him treated by members of both parties as a Leper.
I think you may get your wish, although the Senators have a tradition of showing respect to each other.
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I think you may get your wish, although the Senators have a tradition of showing respect to each other.
We can see that. Reid REALLY respects Specter....
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It is pretty god damned sad that a man who has been in office for four DECADES didn't fully grasp how seniority works
Thats Hope and Change for ya!
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We can see that. Reid REALLY respects Specter....
Specter may get more respect from the dumb ass Country Club Repubs than from the Democraps.
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Gees, why didn't Arlen Specter become a Democrat when he first became a Senator. He was always one of them. I guess the Dems don't like turncoats either.
I love the treason, but hate the traitor.
-Julius Caesar
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
-Thomas Dekker
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Sestak may even deliver a knock out blow. Hey Specter, how's it going to feel to have your career in the hands of the Democrat primary voters? LOL
Hot Air's Ed Morrissey also agree's with splash...
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/05/06/senate-dems-to-specter-hello-rookie/
Ed also notes that Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins may now have second thoughts about following Specter down that road. Specter got used, abused and is on his way to the ash heap of history. Bye bye (in 2010) to the indistinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania.
Actually, I'm sure I read last week or the week before, the Dems promised they wouldn't run anyone against him if he became a traitor. I'd have to search the link. but I'm sure I have read it.
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Could have retired gracefully as an honored elder statesman. Instead, thanks to his craving to remain in power, he departs the stage as a failed clown.
I really think he's going down in history as a traitor to American politics in order to hold on to his power. I know that's what I'm going to spread around on the net!
Guess what Sphincter, you got it without the vaseline and you haven't even realized it yet!
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We can see that. Reid REALLY respects Specter....
Yes, they will shake twice after :pisscontest: on him.