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Specter says Obama ditched him after he provided 60th vote to pass health reform
2012-03-13
Former Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) writes in a new book that President Obama ditched him in the 2010 election after he helped Obama win the biggest legislative victory of his term by passing healthcare reform.
Oh, dear
Specter also claims that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) did not uphold his promise to grant him seniority accrued over 28 years of service in the Senate as a Republican.
You don't say... My, my, my... A democ**t with an agenda. What a surprise. That has never happened before
Specter, who rocked Washington's political establishment and made headlines around the country when he left the Republican Party to join Democ**ts in April of 2009, has kept quiet about these slights until now.

He makes surprising revelations about Republican leaders, as well -- he writes that former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) told him that he would have made the same decision to defect from the GOP if he had been in Specter's position.
One loser advises another...
Specter says that one of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's (Ky.) first concerns after learning of the impending party switch was that he might be blamed for driving Specter out of the GOP.
McConnell, however, quickly got over that when he learned it was just Specter who was defecting confirming what everyone else already knew.
Specter declined to discuss the behind-the-scenes machinations of his party switch when he granted an interview with several news outlets on his final day in the Senate, when he reminisced about his career in his hideaway on the first floor of the Capitol.
"...there I was in the senate cloakroom fighting off evil republikkkans..."
He promised instead to put the juicy details in his memoir, "Life Among the Cannibals," which will go on sale later this month. The Hill obtained an advanced copy.
Soon to be available in bargain bins in finer stores a week after that...
It was written with his former communications director, Charles Robbins.
James Taranto notes Monday: Awful, isn't it? Specter trusted these guys, and they just stabbed him in the back! It must have shaken him to the core to realize just how disloyal distinguished elected officials were capable of being.
Posted by:Beavis

#28  Seriously, isn't this an admission of malfeasance in office? Is there not some law, statute or rule that prohibits a Senator from essentially selling his vote? Are there no remedies available to the American people, civil or criminal, for this gross dereliction of duty. Anybody?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2012-03-14 00:01  

#27  Cab Fare? Hardly. Specter's lucky he wasn't billed for the privledged.
Posted by: Crazyfool   2012-03-13 23:21  

#26  I'm sure Obama left some cab fare on the nightstand.
Posted by: charger   2012-03-13 20:00  

#25  Is #22 a troll, EU?

I thought he was just an idiot.
Posted by: Barbara   2012-03-13 19:06  

#24  Troll alert on Aisle #22.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2012-03-13 18:57  

#23  That is what you call an "useful idiot" in the parlance of Lenin and Obama.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-03-13 18:07  

#22  Rumour Has Ron Paul Betters Nearly In Hawaii - USA Primary - Today In Islands
Posted by: 5 Xarges Against Patick Karin Mohl   2012-03-13 17:07  

#21  Maybe Dole was joshin' him, Kansans can have a funnly sense of humor about such things.

"If I had no morals or intellect, I too would join the democrats."

or

"Yeah, if you were dumb enough to get your head stuck in an oven, I can see why you would think to saw your head off."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-03-13 16:42  

#20  Sure, Benedict Arlen ditched me and the nearly 3 million other Pennsy republican voters who re-elected him senator in 2004...
Posted by: Tom-Pa   2012-03-13 15:31  

#19  #10 My sister worked for Dole. I don't believe what Specter said for a millisecond.

I don't either.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2012-03-13 12:17  

#18  Specter and Nelson. Chumps.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2012-03-13 12:16  

#17  Not sure I'd be bragging about that bman.
Posted by: Hellfish   2012-03-13 12:14  

#16  So Specter fell for the old "I promise I will respect you in the morning" line and he is ticked that Obama did call or send him flowers? Suck it up, stupid.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2012-03-13 12:10  

#15  Crazyfool: The current scam is to offer to sell them some "church land in Saudi Arabia".
Posted by: Anonymoose   2012-03-13 12:02  

#14  One RINO down. Dozens to go.
Posted by: Iblis   2012-03-13 11:12  

#13  "Life Among the Cannibals"? How about "Life as a Cannibal".
Posted by: DoDo   2012-03-13 10:33  

#12  My sister also worked for Dole during the 70's and 80's. Her name was Merilyn Berryman. In 1971 I got orders to go back to the Nam and I called her and said "I don't want to go." two days later new orders came down. Connections are a great thing to have.
Posted by: bman   2012-03-13 10:25  

#11  Specter's resume?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-03-13 08:22  

#10  My sister worked for Dole. I don't believe what Specter said for a millisecond.

Posted by: Mizzou Mafia   2012-03-13 08:22  

#9  Who is stupidest is Santorum who kept him in the Senate instead of letting Toomey run.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2012-03-13 08:12  

#8  Flounder Arlen, face it, you f*cked up. You trusted us.
Posted by: Spot   2012-03-13 07:51  

#7  Generally. And good photo ops.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2012-03-13 07:43  

#6  Dear Abby,

My husband has a long record of money problems. He runs up huge credit-card bills and at the end of the month, if I try to pay them off, he shouts at me, saying I am stealing his money. He says pay the minimum and let our kids worry about the rest, but already we can hardly keep up
with the interest. Also he has been so arrogant and abusive toward our neighbors that most of them no longer speak to us. The few that do are
an odd bunch, to whom he has been giving a lot of expensive gifts, running up our bills even more. Also, he has gotten religious. One week
he hangs out with Catholics and the next with people who say the Pope is the Anti-Christ, and the next he's with Muslims.Fi nally, the last
straw. He's demanding that before anyone can be in the same room with him, they must sign a loyalty oath. It's just so horribly creepy! Can
you help?
Signed, Lost

Dear Lost,

Suck it up and stop whining, Michelle. You're getting to live in the White House for free, travel the world, and have others pay for
everything for you. You can divorce the jerk any time you want. The rest of us are stuck with the idiot for one more year!

Signed,

Abby
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-03-13 07:37  

#5  "Life Among the Cannibals,"

If he were still a Pub.... RACIST TITLE!!!
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-03-13 01:38  

#4  Not only did he get basically nothing for his betrayal, but the Socialists Dems primaried his butt out at the first opportunity. Wotta maroon.
Posted by: PBMcL   2012-03-13 01:20  

#3  Anyone have his home address?

I want to sell him a certain bridge in NYC.

And after that some oceanfront property in Arizona. And a few hundred acres on Mars.

I don't know who is stupider - him or the people who kept voting for him.
Posted by: Crazyfool   2012-03-13 01:05  

#2  Wow, this guy's an even bigger idiot than I thought he was.
Posted by: tu3031   2012-03-13 00:24  

#1  Duh!
Posted by: newc   2012-03-13 00:09  

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