Posted on 02/12/2009 3:59:39 PM PST by malkee
This strikes us as odd, and even perhaps, bad timing, never mind that it’s also Senator Arlen Specter’s birthday today (79).
A day after Majority Leader Harry Reid praised Mr. Specter, one of three Republicans who came to the rescue of the majority’s need to climb over that 60-vote hurdle to pass the economic stimulus package, the new leader of the Senate Democrats’ election arm took aim at the senior senator from Pennsylvania.
At a news briefing a little while ago, Senator Robert Menendez, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said Mr. Specter’s seat was one of the Democrats’ targets for the 2010 midterm elections. Mr. Menendez cited the increased enrollment of Democrats in the state and his poll ratings in contending that Mr. Specter would face a very tough re-election tide.
Asked whether he had consulted the White House about going so aggressively against Mr. Specter (who has been a fairly reliable ally as a moderate Republican), Mr. Menendez said:
We are going to be working with the White House across this entire map. I’m sure that President Obama and those who advise him clearly understand the value of finally getting over 60 votes in the United States Senate after what they have gone through. And we will make collective judgments about how best to achieve that.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Did he really think his vote would save him from a serious Democratic challenge? He should talk to Bush about how capitulating to Dems works out.
The senate is apparently like the supreme court. They’re there for life.
I'll stand back so I don't get trampled in the stampede...
So you can bet he's accepting lots of "Gift$" these days to help in his retirement.
79 years old today and hasn't learned a damn thing.
Birthday or I.Q.?...70 - 79 - Borderline deficiency in intelligence...where do these republican morons come from?
A day after Majority Leader Harry Reid praised Mr. Specter, one of three Republicans who came to the rescue of the majority's need to climb over that 60-vote hurdle to pass the economic stimulus package, the new leader of the Senate Democrats' election arm took aim at the senior senator from Pennsylvania. At a news briefing a little while ago, Senator Robert Menendez, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said Mr. Specter's seat was one of the Democrats' targets for the 2010 midterm elections. Mr. Menendez cited the increased enrollment of Democrats in the state and his poll ratings in contending that Mr. Specter would face a very tough re-election tide.All politics is local -- except as conducted by the Party of Treason, the so-called Democrats.
Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined... taking him for all in all, measuring the tremendous magnitude of the work before him, considering the necessary means to ends, and surveying the end from the beginning, infinite wisdom has seldom sent any man into the world better fitted for his mission than Abraham Lincoln. -- Frederick Douglass
That's the only way we will ever get any of these entrenched bastids out of there.
And another thing--all retirement benefits for them should stop immediately.
You’re right, but don’t blame the Democrats. Specter is a traitor, and it is not at all unusual for a traitor’s new “friends” to dispense with him as soon as they no longer need him. Why should THEY trust a traitor?
Dear Arlen,
Welcome to the club.
Warm Regards,
John McCain
Why not toss old Arlen out of the party and strip him of all seniority. Make his office in the men’s room next to the urinal.
Specter was trying to get MSM and Lib street cred as a reasonable “moderate” Republican. This is how the old fool gets repaid.
When you play with fire you get burned. Ask George HW Bush, he raised taxes and lost to Clinton. Ask Mike Dewine, he worked with the moderates/McCrap and got beat. Specter voted down Bork, backed Clarence Thomas and won. He will lose this time. He’s finished. Clean the office. He doesn’t have “W” to go to this time. “W” did screw the conservatives by backing this piece of crap of Toomey (so did Santorium).
Sadly I think you’re 100% right.
In a country where we’re too lazy to cross the room to change a TV channel it’s no surprise that we need to put activities requiring real thought on autopilot.
Arlen, there’s your reach-around. Enjoy.
What a coincidence. He’s one of our targets too. I hope we get someone running against this hemorrhoid in the primary.
Yes. I hope so, too. I was just watching Laura Ingraham cussing him out on O’Reilly. Hope Pat Toomey runs for Senator again, rather than governor. I hope Chris Matthews runs on the Democratic ticket. He’ll be defeated. Those liberal Dems don’t really understand Pennsylvanians. And all those newly registered blacks in Philadelphia won’t bother to vote when Obama isn’t running.
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