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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
Hey Arlen....
“Put some ice on it...”
ROFLMAO
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posted on
05/06/2009 6:15:23 PM PDT
by
glasseye
To: dawn53
Reid must be a secret aficionado of “Scottish Law”
82
posted on
05/06/2009 6:52:41 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(USA #1; Pirates -3)
To: rabscuttle385
and I relied . . . on his representation, and that's the long and short of it," That's lawyerese for "I was defrauded." How does it taste, Arlen, your own medicine? Not so good, does it?
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posted on
05/06/2009 6:56:43 PM PDT
by
KJC1
To: rabscuttle385
Specter: Reid Promised Seniority, Eventual Judiciary Chairmanship [oops]...welcome to the no integrity, no decency, thug party, Spector - you think the Republicans were right wing, wait 'til the fascist, dictatorial 'rats get done forcing you to vote for Card Check and Nationalized Healthcare - voting against your own preferences was something the 'pubs never foisted on you.....
To: rabscuttle385
he assured me that my seniority would be as if I came in (as a Democrat) in 1980,In 1980 you had no seniority. He kept his promise.
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posted on
05/06/2009 7:09:12 PM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: Iron Munro
That pic on post #77. The look on the faces of BOZerO and Plugs smacks of ‘SUCKER’. They know he’s about to get the petard!
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posted on
05/06/2009 7:23:49 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or Tyranny)
To: tflabo
That Hairy Reid. What a kidder.
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posted on
05/06/2009 7:24:58 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
To: rabscuttle385
Arlen could defect and start the Specter Party. He could be president of the party, chairman, chief justice, bottle washer, janitor and hold the towel for himself in the washroom.
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posted on
05/06/2009 7:28:21 PM PDT
by
sergeantdave
(obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
To: tflabo
The look on the faces of BOZerO and Plugs smacks of SUCKER
I had that same feeling looking at their faces! Even arlen has the look of knowing it.
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posted on
05/06/2009 8:22:18 PM PDT
by
dusttoyou
(Remember the Alamo - CHENEY-PALIN 2012)
To: dusttoyou
Wow...so no party wants him...
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posted on
05/06/2009 9:45:20 PM PDT
by
gman992
To: rabscuttle385
To: El Sordo
It is interesting that Chamberlain was already sick and did not live to see the end of the war.
He must have known hislegacy would be that of a fool.
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posted on
05/07/2009 4:07:40 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: dawn53
I believe Specter,no way in hell he would have skipped out unless he could get the deal he wanted.
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posted on
05/07/2009 4:14:36 AM PDT
by
linn37
(a mortgage in every pot)
To: Jimmy Valentine
I often (well, maybe not often..) wonder about that.
Beliefs aren't easily changed. I find myself inclined to believe that he went to his grave thinking he made all the right moves and that would be remembered that way.
As far as I know he never wrote anything that really examined the issue. I'd love to know more about his correspondence through the war years until his death.
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posted on
05/07/2009 9:16:32 AM PDT
by
El Sordo
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