translation: so go out and pull the lever from Snarlin’ Arlen because you know you are totally dependent on federal largesse for your meager existence. (this is the same argument that got Murtha re-elected after he called his consituents a bunch of redneck racists)
it is an end of an era not an endorsement, certainly if you knew anything about the paper I work for the last person that would get an endorsement would be Arlen Specter.