You'll get no pity here, Judas.
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 ...
Another Arlen magic bullet theory. This time Arlen was the victim.
Another Arlen magic bullet theory. This time Arlen was the victim.
I have a strong hunch that the same sort of deal happens if Mittens is our nominee and gets elected...he will come up with some excuse he can not get rid of obama care...or worse yet he sets up Romney care nationwide and each state still has a mandate..when the states run out of money who will fund it then? well, big brother will so obama care comes thru the back door.
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Lex
You'll get no pity here, Judas.
Nobody loves or trusts a traitor.
I said at the time, when Specter made his deal and became a Democrat, “They’ll use him, and throw him away.”
And, of course, they did. Nothing else could be expected. What, were they supposed to take power and perks from one of their own Democrat pals and give it to a Republican traitor? Not after they had milked him for what he was worth.
Boo Hoo Hoo.
Sorry Snarlen—we won’t be purchasing your book either. Nor loan it from the Public Library in a year or 2.
If Specter feels so dirty he can take a long shower. Works wonders I’ve heard.
Too bad we couldn’t bork him as he voted against Robert Bork for the SCOTUS.
Spector is a shallow man
Dems lied to him - - screwed him - and the press doesn’t care.
Sun comes up in the East.
Water is wet...
Bwaaaaahahahaaaaaaaaaaa!
Pathetic that there are still, even now; some Repub 'believers'.
No sympathy here for the ultimate loser, Arlen.
/This is why brewpubs cannot tolerate 'Obama niceties' such as we so often here from our Leadership per their friendly golf games to "he is really a nice guy ..." and the ridiculous dictums of RNC that their candidates are to keep it nice per campaigning...God-awful, hopeless loser pap./
Arlen, your magic bullet theory move only lasted so long. You got what you deserved and were made quite wealthy by it. But you’ve been a traitor to truth and to this country since 1963. Pardon me if I have no pity for you on yet another ‘health care’ betrayal.
Obama does that with all his male prosties.
He gets what he wants - then he's done.
And when he's done, you're done.
Just look how he treated Larry Sinclair.
Specter and The Dawg seem to have a lot in common ...
In my opinion, Spectre can go to hell and carry a Democrat under each arm.
Wasn’t Sphincter the one who switched from the Rep. party to Dem in order to get re-elected?
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