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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.

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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: rabscuttle385

I guess it took Specter becoming an official DemocRAT for him to find out you can never trust a RAT!


41 posted on 05/06/2009 5:26:37 PM PDT by Anti-MSM (Personal responsibility...what a concept!)
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To: WakeUpAndVote

Awwww poooor Arlen, did the DemoKrat Rats LIE TO YOU?? I can’t somehow muster up any sympathy for you POS!!! Now you can’t come BACK to the GOP can you??? Serves you right you looooser!


42 posted on 05/06/2009 5:27:01 PM PDT by GRRRRR (He'll NEVER be my President! (FUBO!))
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To: Parley Baer

He’ll be 81 by the 2011 elections. He’s already got more retirement money than he’ll be able to spend in his lifetime. What’s the point of his staying on? Has he no life outside of Congress? How sad is that?


43 posted on 05/06/2009 5:27:57 PM PDT by basil ( It's time to eliminate all "Gun Free Zones")
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To: rabscuttle385

HA-HA

44 posted on 05/06/2009 5:28:16 PM PDT by Evil Slayer (Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war)
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To: rabscuttle385
“next chairman of the Judiciary Committee in several years” ....

Several years???

Doddering old fool.

My favorite image of spector..., I saw him on CSPAN years ago with a foot of toilet paper hanging from the rear of his pants. I guess Reid remembers that too.

45 posted on 05/06/2009 5:28:59 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: bill1952

Collins and Snowe, please, join the Dems. Please!!!


46 posted on 05/06/2009 5:31:52 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: rabscuttle385

47 posted on 05/06/2009 5:32:20 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obamanation: an imploding administration headed by a clueless schmuck, with McCain as his Kowakian)
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To: Michael Barnes
I can’t figure the angle yet, but their up to something with this stunt.

No, you can't figure it out.
That's because there is no angle - they were this stupid.

And it was stupid. - it will now stiff arm away any vacillating rinos to their cause.
In real terms, if they had played it correctly, they could have picked up a few more seats without the fuss of an actual election.

But again, that is not the democrat party.
Arlen was so used to the wheeling and dealing away of their constituency’s core values for gain of power that he thought that the dems dealt like that.
But the real way that they deal is to smack your face right off. - IOW, you just got bitch slapped by a party of real bitches... and their constituent's will cherish them for doing it

48 posted on 05/06/2009 5:32:49 PM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: rabscuttle385

Could not happen to a nicer guy.


49 posted on 05/06/2009 5:33:23 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: rabscuttle385
Schadenfreude².
50 posted on 05/06/2009 5:33:24 PM PDT by DB
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To: rabscuttle385
he would become the next chairman of the Judiciary Committee in several years

Umm...Arlen? He's counting on your not having "several years".

51 posted on 05/06/2009 5:33:52 PM PDT by OpeEdMunkey (We seem to have reached a critical mass of stupid people.)
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To: rabscuttle385
a pledge that he would become the next chairman of the Judiciary Committee in several years.

He is 75 and has had Hodgkin's lymphoma twice and yet he is still scheming ahead "several years"?

52 posted on 05/06/2009 5:34:33 PM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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To: rabscuttle385

FU Judas


53 posted on 05/06/2009 5:34:34 PM PDT by italianquaker (We went from a country that hates the president to a president that hates his country)
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To: rabscuttle385

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54 posted on 05/06/2009 5:35:02 PM PDT by Kozak (e)
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To: PA-RIVER

There’s got to be Youtube video of that!


55 posted on 05/06/2009 5:35:13 PM PDT by DB
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To: rabscuttle385

“Specter: Reid Promised Seniority, Eventual Judiciary Chairmanship [oops]”

Awwww, boo hoo, a Dummycrat lied to you? Impossible!

What a jacka$$! RINOs will NEVER LEARN!!!! RINOs are DUMMOs!


56 posted on 05/06/2009 5:35:49 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: bill1952

Nah, there has to be more to this. He wouldn’t go into a deal like this with his six un-covered.


57 posted on 05/06/2009 5:36:13 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: rabscuttle385

As Michelle would say, Boo..freaking ..hoo...Specter.


58 posted on 05/06/2009 5:37:18 PM PDT by y6162
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To: Michael Barnes

He wouldn’t go into a deal like this with his six un-covered.

don’t hold your breath waiting for it, okay?


59 posted on 05/06/2009 5:37:45 PM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: rabscuttle385

They are going to force Specter to agree to card check in order to ‘earn’ what they promised.


60 posted on 05/06/2009 5:37:49 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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