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 ...
Note to Arlan Spincter: Tough shit, asshat.
Yeah, he feels betrayed but it was Republican’s who picked up the soap...
I'm sure this book is destined to be as great a flop as Specter was himself.
To read this book is to forever mark yourself as loser who needs to get a life.
Just like Oswald did not live long.
He was just given the same treatment as the Brits gave his mentor, Benedict Arnold. Arnold sold out to the Crown for the promise of riches, but was never trusted by them. The Crown considered him a traitor that could turn on them as he had on the Americans during the Revolutionary War. Arnold died in London (1801, at 60), heavily in debt. His widow labored to repay his creditors from his small estate. Not much of a reward for his monumental treachery.
1. Mister Specter's inverse value system (feeling double-crossed for not being rewarded for being a poseur and double-crossing traitor to his party), and...
2. The more dogmatic and dictatorial a government, the narrower its shoulders. Many people who THINK they are on the "ins" just might find themselves in the (metaphorical) wood chipper when they become a liability, or just non-"useful". Specter is just one example.
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There is no honor among thieves.
One of your many mistakes was believing anything coming from a SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS LIPS. Another. You should be the poster child for any Congressman who has the conjonas to push for TERM LIMITS.
hey marble-mouth: you forgot the fundamentals of being a
whore. they’re not paying you for the sex, ther’ye paying
you to LEAVE! Dummy.
I read this somewhere earlier today and I can’t believe my eyeballs.
Arlen Spector, one of the most despised former Republicans, is mad because HE was betrayed?
That is priceless.
Who did he think he was dealing with? And the fact that he was so easily snookered by Obama is further evidence that he should have retired years ago.
Gee, did he at least get to enjoy a cigarette aftewords?
And that was over two years ago!
-PJ
Thanks SeekAndFind. Scumbag Ping.
Specter should know about double crossed backstabbbing since he is an expert.
Liberals lie, that is what they do best to keep people from finding out the truth. Otherwise they would never win an election on what they truly believe.
I celebrate Specter’s betrayal, not because it hurt him personally, but because it was part of the overall destruction of the DNC supermajority that Obama squandered.
Had Obama been a true leader, they would have accomplished far more damage to our nation than what we are experiencing today.
Yes, that is a scary thought.
Alan, there is no honor among thieves...and you willfully betrayed your constituency and your values and your friends and took up with a bunch of thieves and thugs.
Now you are getting what you deserve, which is the consequence of all of that.
...and still, you will not be hurting nearly as badly as your betrayed nation will if ObamaCare is not revoked, overturned, and voted out.
America at the Crossroads of History
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The Man who Despises America
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“Jesus? Jesus........ Are you there? do you hear me ?
I am coming. I am Coming” Arlen Specter
>There is no honor among thieves.<
No one has said it better than you, my FRiend
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