WOW! NY Times reports today that Pennsylvania US Senator Arlen Specter will switch parties and caucus with the Democrats. Senator Specter would give the Dems 60 votes in the Senate, enough to provide cloture against filibusters. Of course that assumes ...
... the other 59 Democratic Senators will toe the line, a dicey proposition at best. Humorist and commentator Will Rogers was once asked if he belonged to any organized political party,
"No", he replied, "I'm a Democrat"
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Pa Senator Specter to join Democrats
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Specter is insane at best.
He did it because he is afraid he won't win the republican primary. Anything to keep his seat. If he were a democrat in the same position, he would be switching the other way.
finally!
Now We are talking my game.
I have met Senator Specter on two ocassions. Each time I was taken aback by his total un-politico demeaner. He is rather short and not to good looking and not a very good public speaker. Not that this should matter but many big name politicians have stature, looks or a presence that makes sense that they could get elected.
Mr. Specter was first elected as a Democrat. He was Attorney General of PA, before his senate career which he was elected to in 1980. He also was defense attorney for Ira Einhorn if you remember the Holly Maddox murder trial.
Pennsylvania Democrats like Sen. Specter because he is not an idealogue. He is generally good fiscally and socially he is liberterian.
He is Jewish so he is not boisterous about religion like so many in the minority party.
His own party in the primary is looking to unseat him with a firebrand former congressman named Patrick Toomey. Toomey is yet another of these one issue Republicans, who hate woman's right to choose.
Also Patricia Lutsig, is a former state treasurer trying to out- conservative the conservative Toomey.
The Democrats sensed that the Republicans lead by admitted drug addict Rush Limbaugh were trying desperately to unseat the longest serving senator (the former longest serving senator from Alaska, the Republican Ted Stevens lost his seat over a home addition that he apparently forgot should have cost him something, and the Bush administration Justice Department forgot to give his defense team all the evidence) and having no strong Dem. candidate the Dems invited Specter to sit with them and keep his committee seniority. Which the Republicans had put in jeopardy.
Anyway the party of Limbaugh threw out one of their own, and the Dems took him in. I would like to invite all Republicans to follow the lead of Specter.
Sorry for the misinformation. Pat Toomey's opponent in the PA Repugnican primary is Peg Luksik.
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