Switched and Screwed.
Posted on 05/06/2009 2:56:30 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
Despite promises from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) would retain his seniority after switching parties, Specter will be put at the end of the seniority line on all his committees but one under a resolution approved on the floor late Tuesday.
Under the modified organizing resolution, Specter will not keep his committee seniority on any of the five committees that he serves on and will be the junior Democrat on all but one — the chamber’s Special Committee on Aging. On that committee, he will be next to last in seniority. As a result, Specter — who as a Republican was ranking member on the Judiciary Committee and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, as well as ranking member of the panel’s Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education — will now rank behind all the other Democrats, at least until the end of this Congress.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
Democrats said that while unrelated, Specter’s comments to the New York Times Magazine this weekend indicating he would support former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) disputed re-election bid against Al Franken have angered many Democrats.
“Sen. Specter better watch comments like these. They won’t help him in the caucus,” a Democratic leadership aide said, adding that the comments have “caused a lot of heartburn in the caucus.”
Well, this is a nice way to start the morning,,the smell of napalm!
How’s that workin’ out for ya, Arlen?
LOL. Power hungry Specter should have got the deal in writing.
And didn’t he realize he would have to check his conscience and freedom of thought at the door, when he joined the democrat party?
RUT ROH.
Well, Arlen is their problem now, as so many here have duly forecast.
But the difference is in the way that the 2 parties deal with such "problems."
the pubs bend over backwards to compromise, reach across, and cast away the core values of their constituents at the drop of a hat.
The dems will flat out smack your face off. - Get used to it Arlen.
Maybe he should have been even more unwilling to be judged by the craven majority party of the Senate. Time to retire ?
Can we start referring to him as “Junior”?
LOL, Reid don’t even trust him
Guess we can infer that Reid doesn’t think he has much of a chance of snagging Snowe and Collins.
I would think that any single person who voted for Specter would have cause to sue.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. Justice served
no matter if he’s a D or an R, he’ll always be a fool.
You mean the Democrats lied just to get him to switch parties? Say it aint so!
In other words he doesn’t want to be judged by the people he ‘represents’ and who pay him.
Would not have made any difference to the RATS. Sure he could sue; however he would not see the end of the suit because he is too old.
Anyway it couldn't have happened to a more deserving SOB
Asked whether he cared about a shortage of Jewish Republicans in the Senate, Specter replied: “I sure do. There’s still time for the Minnesota courts to do justice and declare Norm Coleman (who is Jewish) the winner.”
But questioned outside the Senate chamber Tuesday, Specter said the comment was a mistake. “In the swirl of moving from one caucus to another, I have to get used to my new teammates,” he said. “I’m ordinarily pretty correct in what I say. I’ve made a career of being precise. I conclusively misspoke.”
Asked who he’s backing now in elections, Specter said, “I’m looking for more Democratic members. Nothing personal.”
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COMMENTS Stupid is as stupid does.......is he merely braindead? Could be the aged Specter is feeling the effects of incipient Alzheimer's?
More likely, he was recruited by Acorn.
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