Posted on 05/06/2009 5:13:41 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) today said he was guaranteed seniority on committees by Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) in the final negotiations before his party switch last week, talks that, according to Specter, also included a pledge that he would become the next chairman of the Judiciary Committee in several years.
Specter stood by his version of the one-on-one talks with Reid, despite the Senate leader's contradictory statements on the matter and the resolution that passed last night placing Specter in the most junior slot on most committees on which he serves.
"When I talked to Senator Reid he assured me that my seniority would be as if I came in (as a Democrat) in 1980, and I relied . . . on his representation, and that's the long and short of it," Specter said in an interview in his Capitol "hideaway" office.
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“Who to believe...Specter or Reid...now that’s really a hard one because both have no regard for the truth.”
My money would be that they are both lying.
Cly me a Liver..Cly me a Liver...
Quick, someone call the waaaaaaaaaaaambulance!
Aw, the innocence of Arlen Specter. With all the years in the Senate and he still does not know the dimocRATS. The man is a fool. Make that an old fool.
Reid to Specter: Hey, what can I say? My lips were moving!
Dear Senator Specter,
I have a most important business proposition for you, involving some money I need your help in getting out of Africa. Please email me at imasucker.com for important details.
Junior senator Benedict Arlen.
Perhaps Reid was relying on Scottish law, or something.
LLS
That’s okay, Sen. Spectator understands lying, cheating, dishonest people. That’s who raised him.
Sucker!
Actually, I was wondering how Chamberlain felt he became the poster child for appeasement... 60 some years later... we still remember that photo of him waving the piece of worthless paper...
In it he acknowledges that the only alternative left is to stop Hitler by force. But he also opines about how he couldn't imagine having done anything more or different that would have been more successful in the events leading up to war.
The true believer lives ever on.
Also the old adage: "When you sleep with a louse, you get lousy"
NO SOUP FOR YOU!
This whole thing smells of setup by the Dem’s. I can’t figure the angle yet, but their up to something with this stunt.
Sorry Arlen. I really mean that - its sad to see such a huge mistake made so late in one's career.
But, in all fairness, you did it - you played it this way and drew the losing card.
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