Posted on 02/11/2009 6:56:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
* Will Arlen Specter press his colleagues to allow C-SPAN cameras in the House-Senate conference on the trillion dollar stimulus bill?
* Has the controversial left-wing activist group ACORN had its ability to get millions in federal pork stripped out of the Senate version of the stimulus bill?
* And does the percentage of spending versus tax cuts in the Senate bill resemble a proposal put forward recently on the pages of the Wall Street Journal by the nation's number one conservative radio talk show host -- Rush Limbaugh?
These are but three of many questions that Specter will be facing as he once again plays out his ongoing role as Pennsylvania's man-in-the middle during the ongoing negotiations over the stimulus bill. Along with Maine's GOP moderate Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, Specter has aroused the wrath of conservatives around the country and in his home state. At a weekend meeting of the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee -- which Specter missed because of the stimulus bill controversy -- he was nonetheless the center of attention. Unwelcome attention. One seething Committee member snapped to a reporter that the Senator was a "better Democrat" than many Democrats in Congress.
Specter never shies away from this kind of thing, meeting his critics head on.
Having made the rounds of conservative talk radio (getting into a dust-up with Laura Ingraham along the way), Specter keeps plowing along in the unglamorous bulldog role he has claimed for himself over the years, managing to anger just about everybody up to and including his Judiciary Committee colleague Ted Kennedy.
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Hell, it's already over. This was a done deal from the start.
I thought Acorn was still in Porkulus?
Considering it was Arlen Specter that invented The Magic Bullet Theory, why is anyone surprised.
eyeamok
how he survived this long is amazing in and of itself
Of course not.
Mister Specter chooses to assist his Democrat allies (with a not-so-subtle wink and a nod).
We need to wedge these RINOS out of the GOP in their next primaries.
Calling all potential GOP Senate candidates in the great states of Pennsylvania and Maine. We need you. (Veterans especially should consider running.)
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Time to clean spic and span!!!
That’s the only thing he was right about in his lifetime.
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