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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Dan on May 03, 2009, 12:26:18 PM
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Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) said Sunday in his first TV interview since becoming a Democrat last week he had not promised to be “a loyal Democrat” and would lead a filibuster against his new party if he felt strongly enough about an issue.
Specter told David Gregory on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he had determined “with polls and a lot of personal contact” that his reelection prospects as a Republican were “bleak.”
But he added: “There’s more than being reelected here. There’s the factor of principle. The Republican Party has gone far to the right since I joined it under Reagan’s big tent. … In recent times, I have diverged materially from the Republican line … As the picture has evolved, I felt a lot more comfortable – as a matter of principle – with Democrats than Republicans.”
Specter heatedly denied a Wall Street Journal report that he had told the White House that he would be “a loyal Democrat.”
““I have shown, repeatedly, my independence — willing to cross party lines — when I thought the interests of the American people and Pennsylvania required it,” Specter said. “If I see that there are other issues where I feel as a matter of conscience, I will continue a filibuster against legislation.”
Specter repeated the news, previously reported, that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had agreed to allow him to keep his seniority.
“That’s an entitlement. I’ve earned the seniority,” he said. “I will be treated by the Democrats as if I’d been elected as a Democrat.”
Asked if Democratic leaders had seen to it that he would not face a primary challenge, Specter said: “They have not – flatly, not.”
Asked his core principles, the first two Specter listed were “freedom, a woman’s right to choose.”
Specter, a survivor of the cancer Hodgkin's lymphoma, has opened a website to push for more medical research.
“If we had pursued the war on cancer, which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today,” Specter said. “This medical research has prolonged or saved many lives, including mine.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22026.html
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I would like even just one example of how the republican party has moved to the right. Just one example. The reason McCain lost the election (and not by much, I might add: 53% to 47%) is because the republican party has moved Left!
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I would like even just one example of how the republican party has moved to the right. Just one example. The reason McCain lost the election (and not by much, I might add: 53% to 47%) is because the republican party has moved Left!
It's boiler plate spin doctrine that the left and near leftist like Specter would have Conservatives believe. The sad truth is that the party has moved so far to the left that Conservatives have problems supporting the crazy agenda.
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Can Specter just go away.
He's just an opportunist.
He couldn't win an upcoming election as a Republican, so he became a Democrat.
I have nothing against older people, but isn't he around 75-79 years old?
Why doesn't he just stand down, go home, and proceed to drive his wife, kids, and grandchildren crazy; instead of messing around with our government.
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The perks of the job must be mind blowing since it seems like we get stuck with all the crooked and greedy animals until the loose their marbles or croak. Only the better politicians seem to leave after a few terms. This Specter flip flop is more smoke then fire since he started out as a democrat and has been voting as one for years. He was on Meet The Depressed this morning and was getting some rough questioning that left him stumbling around for excuses. People don't care for it when politicians switch their affiliation midterm it leaves a bad taste in the mouths of people that voted for them. He may have just done himself in altogether by trying to work the system.
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Arlen Sphincter needs hemmorhoid surgery.
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Arlen Sphincter needs hemmorhoid surgery.
What would there be left after the procedure? :o
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Arlen Sphincter needs hemmorhoid surgery.
In his case that would be a lobotomy!!!
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yes it moved so far to the right that it landed smack to the left...
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McCain was the GOP nominee. Obviously, Specter is wrong.
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Arlen Sphincter is the same cretin who came up with the Warren commission's "magic bullet theory". He has a Ph.D in bullsh!t science and lying.
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The GOP should have dumped this jerk after he helped stabbed Robert Bork in the back in 1987.