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Specter: Reid Promised Seniority, Eventual Judiciary Chairmanship [oops]
The Washington Post ^ | 2009-05-06 | Paul Kane

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 111th; benedictarlen; bho2009; bho44; democrats; dopeydems; haha; obamasbitch; payback; reid; rinopurge; senate; snarlinarlen; specter; spectertruthfile; sucker; traitor; turkishdelight; ussenate; whining
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To: dawn53

“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.


21 posted on 05/06/2009 5:20:26 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: FormerACLUmember

Cly me a Liver..Cly me a Liver...


22 posted on 05/06/2009 5:20:57 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: jazminerose
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23 posted on 05/06/2009 5:21:08 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: rabscuttle385

Quick, someone call the waaaaaaaaaaaambulance!


24 posted on 05/06/2009 5:21:18 PM PDT by Winstons Julia
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To: WakeUpAndVote

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.


25 posted on 05/06/2009 5:21:23 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: rabscuttle385

Reid to Specter: Hey, what can I say? My lips were moving!


26 posted on 05/06/2009 5:22:01 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Bernard Madoff's ponzi scheme looks remarkably similar to the way Social Security works)
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To: rabscuttle385

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.


27 posted on 05/06/2009 5:22:06 PM PDT by lacrew (Axe not what your teleprompter can do for you....)
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To: rabscuttle385

Junior senator Benedict Arlen.


28 posted on 05/06/2009 5:22:15 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: USAFJeeper

Perhaps Reid was relying on Scottish law, or something.


29 posted on 05/06/2009 5:22:19 PM PDT by patton (Oligarchy is an absorbing state in the Markov process we find ourselves in. Sigh.)
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To: rabscuttle385
Rats eating their own... ahh there is still good going on in America!!!

LLS

30 posted on 05/06/2009 5:22:27 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: rabscuttle385
NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD FOOL


31 posted on 05/06/2009 5:22:29 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were a clueless idiot, and suppose you were Barack Obama; but I repeat myself)
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To: rabscuttle385

That’s okay, Sen. Spectator understands lying, cheating, dishonest people. That’s who raised him.


32 posted on 05/06/2009 5:22:50 PM PDT by muir_redwoods ( O.B.A.M.A. = One Big Asinine Mistake, America)
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To: rabscuttle385

Sucker!


33 posted on 05/06/2009 5:23:01 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: mainepatsfan
I wonder if Chamberlain felt the same way when Hitler seized the rest of Czechoslovakia in 1939.

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...

34 posted on 05/06/2009 5:23:03 PM PDT by John123 (The US may be going down the drain, but everyone else will drown first...)
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To: mainepatsfan
Try to find Chamberlin’s speech where he announced war with Germany.

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.

35 posted on 05/06/2009 5:23:18 PM PDT by El Sordo
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To: NonValueAdded
Otter said it best to Flounder: “You foxtrotted up, you trusted us.”

Also the old adage: "When you sleep with a louse, you get lousy"

36 posted on 05/06/2009 5:23:20 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: Iron Munro

NO SOUP FOR YOU!


37 posted on 05/06/2009 5:23:42 PM PDT by trickyricky
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To: rabscuttle385

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.


38 posted on 05/06/2009 5:25:35 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: rabscuttle385
you can dance with the devil, but the devil doesn't change

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.

39 posted on 05/06/2009 5:25:53 PM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: rabscuttle385

"Ass sphincter says what?"
40 posted on 05/06/2009 5:26:26 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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