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Specter prepares his farewell after 30 years in the Senate (good riddance to Snarlin' Arlen)
The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 21 December 2010 | Thomas Fitzgerald

Posted on 12/21/2010 7:39:20 AM PST by Erik Latranyi

WASHINGTON - The family photographs came down Monday, packed in bubble wrap and boxes for the trip home, leaving nothing but some nails and sun-faded outlines on the walls of Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's inner office.

After 30 years on Capitol Hill, the state's longest-serving senator is clearing out and heading back to Philadelphia.

Specter, 80, will deliver his final floor speech Tuesday morning, decrying a gridlocked Senate that has lost its political center and the sense of collegiality that once kept senators from campaigning against one another.

"Eating or defeating your own is a form of sophisticated cannibalism," Specter, a Democrat, plans to say, according to his prepared remarks, referring to conservative Republican senators - notably Jim DeMint of South Carolina - who helped tea-party insurgents fell three moderate incumbents in the 2010 primaries.

"Collegiality can obviously not be maintained when negotiating with someone out to defeat you, especially in your own party," Specter says in the 2,600-word speech, scheduled for 10:30 a.m. "In some quarters, compromising has become a dirty word. . . . Politics is no longer the art of the possible when senators are intransigent in their positions."

In some ways, Specter's journey over the last 20 months sums up the plight of the homeless centrist: He was all but forced out of the Republican Party and was embraced by the White House and other top Democrats, but could not survive his new party's primary.

He says he is cheered by the triumph of Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican who lost to a tea-party candidate in the primary but who has evidently won reelection as a write-in.

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amoral; noethics; pennsylvania; senate; specter; sphincter; twobitpolitician; worthlesspos
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To: Erik Latranyi

Did anyone watch his speech? That is one bitter old b@st@rd.


41 posted on 12/21/2010 8:31:15 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Sybeck1
Boy, he sure made Rick Santorum look stupid.

And George Bush also.

42 posted on 12/21/2010 8:35:55 AM PST by Retired COB (Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
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FINALLY!! May he never darken our door again!


43 posted on 12/21/2010 8:37:07 AM PST by Jenny217
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To: Erik Latranyi

The Sphincter is finally gone.


44 posted on 12/21/2010 8:39:56 AM PST by Free Vulcan (The cult of Islam must be eradicated by any means necessary.)
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To: Erik Latranyi
This weasel is a political whore and a cancer to a free society. If I were king, he would not be allowed to remain in this country.
45 posted on 12/21/2010 8:47:06 AM PST by Niteranger68 (I am in the party of "HELL NO"!)
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To: Erik Latranyi

See how this creep and all the elitists believe they’re special? Fellow senators (royalty) are supposed to support your re-election no matter what your stance on the issues. I despise these people!


46 posted on 12/21/2010 8:57:17 AM PST by Terry Mross ( Reagan made one mistake: He chose Bush as his veep. We've been paying for it ever since.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Don’t go away mad......


47 posted on 12/21/2010 9:12:46 AM PST by GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco (I love liberals. They taste like chicken.)
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To: wmileo
ARSE_HOLE?

"Au revoirrrrrrr, ya cheese-eatin’ arse hole!"


48 posted on 12/21/2010 9:20:43 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Finally!! Good riddance A**hole!


49 posted on 12/21/2010 9:38:19 AM PST by Naplm
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To: Erik Latranyi

Please, someone should mail the Scoundrel an enlarged printout of this thread, preferably Poster Sized so he can get the jist of what people really think about the Two-faced Immoral Sleezeball! He tried to sneak thru some $ 142 Million in earmarks on Reid’s Last Porkbarrel Abortion!


50 posted on 12/21/2010 10:30:28 AM PST by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Greatest President :George W. Bush!!)
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To: wmileo

How about the pieces of a Used Roll of Toilet Paper??
Just Wondering? I would have my doubts on that also!


51 posted on 12/21/2010 10:34:33 AM PST by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Greatest President :George W. Bush!!)
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To: Erik Latranyi

This little turncoat prick survived cancer, too bad, for all the damage he’s done to this country, may he rot in hell.


52 posted on 12/21/2010 10:39:18 AM PST by USS Alaska
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To: Erik Latranyi

Mr. Specter, you’re fired.


53 posted on 12/21/2010 10:47:33 AM PST by Gator113 (I'm voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Exile him to an deserted island in the Orkneys where he can fulfill his lifelong dream of being subject to Scottish law.


54 posted on 12/21/2010 10:53:11 AM PST by matt1234 (0bama's bunker phase: Nov. 2010 - Jan. 2013)
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To: Erik Latranyi; Tribune7; Kid Shelleen

Good riddance, ‘Scotsman’!


55 posted on 12/21/2010 11:10:14 AM PST by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !! Â)
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