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 ...
Great and timely quote on Lincoln on his 200th birthday.
Or maybe they'll only vote once.
Only problem with that is ACORN will make sure their votes are counted even if they don’t vote.
Perhaps that the strategy. Enlist iffy Republican support on a poison bill such as Porkulus then target him in the midterm. Unless the RNC gets serious about supporting a Toomey or a Santorum in PA the seat will go blue since Specter is now public enemy #1 to PA conservatives, who were never his base anyway.
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