Posted on 03/12/2012 2:17:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Hill is reporting on some tibdits from Arlen Specter's forthcoming new memoir, Life Among the Cannibals. Specter feels that Democratrs used him to pass health care reform and then didn't follow through on their promises to help him win his primary.
"I realized that the president and his advisers were gun-shy about supporting my candidacy after being stung by Obama's failed rescue attempts for New Jersey governor Jon Corzine and Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley. They were reluctant to become victims of a trifecta," he writes.
The snub was made all the more painful by Obama flying over Philadelphia en route to New York City a few days before the election and then on primary day jetting over Pittsburgh to visit a factory in Youngstown, Ohio, 22 miles from the Pennsylvania border, to promote the 2009 economic stimulus law. The painful irony for Specter is that his vote for the stimulus legislation, which was instrumental to its passage, hastened his departure from the Republican Party.
Specter was also abandoned by Harry Reid, who had promised to protect the party-switcher's seniority.
Instead, Reid stripped Specter of all his seniority by passing a short resolution by unanimous consent in a nearly-empty chamber, burying him at the bottom of the Democrats' seniority list.
Specter found out about it after his press secretary emailed him a press account of the switch. Specter was floored that Reid had "violated a fundamental Senate practice to give personal notice to a senator directly affected by the substance of a unanimous consent agreement."
Specter was left simmering after Reid's spokesman at the time told the AP that Specter had known about the resolution and even joined in a deal to draft it, which Specter characterizes as a "falsification."
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
See also here:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/specter-obama-ditched-me-after-health-vote/?cat_orig=health
SPECTER: OBAMA DITCHED ME AFTER HEALTH VOTE
Former Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) writes in a new book that President Obama ditched him in the 2010 election after he helped Obama win the biggest legislative victory of his term by passing healthcare reform.
Specter also claims that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) did not uphold his promise to grant him seniority accrued over 28 years of service in the Senate as a Republican.
Poor Sphincter feeling like a jilted 2 bit whore ... and all he has to show for it is 30 pieces of silver ... oh boohoo
In Powerline, John Hindraker also writes:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/03/the-art-of-the-double-cross.php
THE ART OF THE DOUBLE-CROSS
EXCERPT:
Arlen Specter, one of our least-favorite politicians, is back in the news. He has authored a memoir called Life Among the Cannibals about his decades in Washington. It’s an odd title; Specter apparently enjoyed the “cannibals” so much that, when faced with a tough primary challenge at age 79 after 44 years as a Republican office-holder, he became a Democrat rather than retire to private life. According to The Hill, Specter complains in his memoir that the Democrats double-crossed him after he negotiated with them to provide the 60th vote for Obamacare.
Put some ice on it biatch!
In Powerline, John Hindraker also writes:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/03/the-art-of-the-double-cross.php
THE ART OF THE DOUBLE-CROSS
EXCERPT:
Arlen Specter, one of our least-favorite politicians, is back in the news. He has authored a memoir called Life Among the Cannibals about his decades in Washington. It’s an odd title; Specter apparently enjoyed the “cannibals” so much that, when faced with a tough primary challenge at age 79 after 44 years as a Republican office-holder, he became a Democrat rather than retire to private life. According to The Hill, Specter complains in his memoir that the Democrats double-crossed him after he negotiated with them to provide the 60th vote for Obamacare.
Another Dem boy toy. You and McLame need to form a support group.
TO DARN Bad! You got exactly what you deserved. I doubt there is ANYONE on either side who feels sorry for you! You are the main reason I could NEVER vote for Rick Santorum. He should NEVER have back you over Toomey!
Shut up and go AWAY!
Everybody hates a traitor. This one is especially foul smelling because he admits that Obama's promise to help him get reelected was the reason Specter sold his country down the drain.
Boo hoo Benedict Specter.
As a professional prostitute with so many years of experience he should know to get paid upfront.
Reid is like the obnoxious bully that grabs a kids hand and slaps his face with it and then taunts "why are you hitting yourself.
As slimy as Specter is, Reid is 10X slimier and that's saying something.
Well gee Arlen, you laid down with dogs and got fleas! What a shock. Go rot Crypt Keeper.
If he thought the health care law was good, he should have voted for it; if not, he should have voted against it. Obviously, the interests of the public were not on his mind if he was expecting a political payoff for his vote.
You betrayed us. May this bother you the rest of your life, because I know it will affected mine.
Cry us a river, Arlen.
Sniff.
*Sob*
Oh the Hugh Manatee!
Poor Arlene, he laid down with dogs and got fleeced...........
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