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 ...
Dems screwed Jeffords as well IIRC.
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
Yeah, well. You should know by now not to believe everything a politician says.
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’.
We’ll see a couple months down the line if this is legit or more D.C. shenanigans.
ROFLOL.
Makes Robert "Sheets" Byrd seem lucid and coherent.
Harry Reid to Arlen Spector, “You F’d up, you trusted us”
Oldest deflowering ever. What’s this world coming to, is there no honor among thieves? Tsk tsk!
See what we’ve been dealing with for 30 years? Now he’s your problem, Democrats!
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
Specter, they played you like a violin!
I hope Arlen’s planning a long vacation at his newly acquired oceanfront property in Nevada that Harry Reid just sold him.
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.
Oh man, the RATS are treating Specter like a bee eye itch. Pretty funny.
Serves him right!
Finally justice is served! :)
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