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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

Dems screwed Jeffords as well IIRC.


61 posted on 05/06/2009 5:38:05 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Specter Humiliated: Democrats Strip GOP Defector of Rank
Newmax | 5/6/2009 | Newsmax
Posted on 05/06/2009 4:23:52 PM PDT by mojitojoe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245690/posts


62 posted on 05/06/2009 5:39:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: rabscuttle385
Specter: Reid Promised Seniority, Eventual Judiciary Chairmanship

Yeah, well. You should know by now not to believe everything a politician says.

63 posted on 05/06/2009 5:40:49 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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To: rabscuttle385

Hey, Arlen - that sensation of a knife in your back - payback is a bitch, eh? Republicans have had that same sensation from your actions for some time now. Pardon me for enjoying your first taste of such from your new ‘friends’.


64 posted on 05/06/2009 5:41:12 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: bill1952

We’ll see a couple months down the line if this is legit or more D.C. shenanigans.


65 posted on 05/06/2009 5:44:20 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: PA-RIVER
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.

ROFLOL.

Makes Robert "Sheets" Byrd seem lucid and coherent.

66 posted on 05/06/2009 5:44:23 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Harry Reid to Arlen Spector, “You F’d up, you trusted us”


67 posted on 05/06/2009 5:45:37 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Telling it like it is since "revolver" was released)
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To: rabscuttle385

Oldest deflowering ever. What’s this world coming to, is there no honor among thieves? Tsk tsk!


68 posted on 05/06/2009 5:46:07 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Lady Liberty has become Kitty Genovese.)
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To: rabscuttle385

See what we’ve been dealing with for 30 years? Now he’s your problem, Democrats!


69 posted on 05/06/2009 5:46:49 PM PDT by loreldan (Santorum, where are you?)
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To: rabscuttle385

Fool on the Hill—he should have kown better. I hopes he gets his butt kicked in the 2010 elections and I actually would love to see another Democrat win


70 posted on 05/06/2009 5:48:33 PM PDT by bzybee
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To: rabscuttle385
"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


71 posted on 05/06/2009 5:49:06 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin "The Iron Lady of the North")
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To: rabscuttle385

Admit it Specter, you bought the car too, didn't you
72 posted on 05/06/2009 5:52:30 PM PDT by MaxMax (America's population is 304-Million. Obama must punish America for the other 4.7 Billion)
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To: rabscuttle385

Some never learn:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHvtKL28uL8


73 posted on 05/06/2009 5:53:18 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (If I had any further to go,I'd be there.)
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74 posted on 05/06/2009 5:56:05 PM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: WakeUpAndVote

Specter, they played you like a violin!


75 posted on 05/06/2009 5:58:47 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: rabscuttle385

I hope Arlen’s planning a long vacation at his newly acquired oceanfront property in Nevada that Harry Reid just sold him.


76 posted on 05/06/2009 5:59:17 PM PDT by Signolife
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To: rabscuttle385
"Oh yeah - Harry said I'll get to keep it all."


77 posted on 05/06/2009 6:01:34 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

Arlen, it would be SO funny if you jumped back to the Reps tomorrow.

We don’t really want you, but it would still be funny. Then Harry would be a sucker like you, too.


78 posted on 05/06/2009 6:06:16 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ( Obama, you're off the island!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Oh man, the RATS are treating Specter like a bee eye itch. Pretty funny.


79 posted on 05/06/2009 6:11:12 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: rabscuttle385

Serves him right!
Finally justice is served! :)


80 posted on 05/06/2009 6:14:01 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
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