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Specter Really Pisses Off Democrats
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:01 pm
by Col Hogan
The honeymoon is over with Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter of PA. A senator since 1980, Specter was promised he would keep his seniority "as if I had been a Democratic Senator since 1980"...
But Specter apprently really ticked off some of his fellow Democrats, who voted unanimously to strip him of his rank, basically making him the most junior senator pn the Hill...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22180.html
Re: Specter Really Pisses Off Democrats
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:04 pm
by TwinTownBisonFan
Col Hogan wrote:The honeymoon is over with Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter of PA. A senator since 1980, Specter was promised he would keep his seniority "as if I had been a Democratic Senator since 1980"...
But Specter apprently really ticked off some of his fellow Democrats, who voted unanimously to strip him of his rank, basically making him the most junior senator pn the Hill...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22180.html
Joe Sestak for Senate no longer waylayed... specter an early front runner for blunder of the year
Re: Specter Really Pisses Off Democrats
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:06 pm
by Wedgebuster
Could he be the crux of the new party?
Re: Specter Really Pisses Off Democrats
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:09 pm
by dbackjon
Wedgebuster wrote:Could he be the crux of the new party?
What party wants him?
Re: Specter Really Pisses Off Democrats
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:35 pm
by Wedgebuster
The new party.
Re: Specter Really Pisses Off Democrats
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:41 pm
by Ivytalk
Wedgebuster wrote:The new party.
The Specter Party.
Re: Specter Really Pisses Off Democrats
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:44 pm
by TwinTownBisonFan
Ivytalk wrote:Wedgebuster wrote:The new party.
The Specter Party.
the one solely dedicated to getting ol arlen re-elected...
no broad-based political movement is ever going to be sustained by a plaintive cry of "moderation"... it rarely stokes the passion of the kind of people who make a political party go...
Re: Specter Really Pisses Off Democrats
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:46 pm
by BlueHen86
Ivytalk wrote:Wedgebuster wrote:The new party.
The Specter Party.
Spectre?
With Blofeld dead, there is room at the top.
Re: Specter Really Pisses Off Democrats
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:51 pm
by dbackjon
TwinTownBisonFan wrote:Ivytalk wrote:
The Specter Party.
the one solely dedicated to getting ol arlen re-elected...
Kind of like the "Connecticuttistananers for LIEberman?
Re: Specter Really Pisses Off Democrats
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:51 pm
by travelinman67
TwinTownBisonFan wrote:Ivytalk wrote:
The Specter Party.
the one solely dedicated to getting ol arlen re-elected...
no broad-based political movement is ever going to be sustained by a plaintive cry of "moderation"... it rarely stokes the passion of the kind of people who make a political party go...
Here's one case we agree. Truth is, ideologically, neither party wants him. He's just a vote both sides would just as soon do what he's told and keep his yapper shut.
Having said that...
...TTBF...
...are more "independents" and "moderates" what we REALLY need on the Hill?
Everyone's always bitchin about polarization impeding legislative progress...but would a Congress of moderates only muck thinks up worse?
Re: Specter Really Pisses Off Democrats
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 7:32 pm
by D1B
travelinman67 wrote:TwinTownBisonFan wrote:
the one solely dedicated to getting ol arlen re-elected...
no broad-based political movement is ever going to be sustained by a plaintive cry of "moderation"... it rarely stokes the passion of the kind of people who make a political party go...
Here's one case we agree. Truth is, ideologically, neither party wants him. He's just a vote both sides would just as soon do what he's told and keep his yapper shut.
Having said that...
...TTBF...
...are more "independents" and "moderates" what we REALLY need on the Hill?
Everyone's always bitchin about polarization impeding legislative progress...but would a Congress of moderates only muck thinks up worse?
Fvck it Tman. Campaign finance reform and ban lobbying.