Oh, and he has an ego the size of Jupiter.
Posted on 02/14/2009 12:13:58 AM PST by malkee
Democrats began to press Mr. Specter, saying he would get the $10 billion increase only if he promised to vote for the eventual bill. Mr. Specter pushed back, saying he was concerned about the size of the bill and its mix of tax credits and spending.
“I really do not make deals,” he said. And while he had promised Mr. Durbin nothing, the Illinois senator had made him a promise. As Mr. Durbin recalled, at a Super Bowl party at the White House on Feb. 1, “I told him, ‘I’m keeping my word.’ ”
More hard bargaining was ahead. Mr. Specter’s support was in doubt until the very end. And once he voted for the bill, Mr. Durbin said that he made sure that the additional $10 billion for the N.I.H. was protected in conference negotiations with the House.
Pat White, vice president for federal relations at the Association of American Universities, said that the past week had been one of most important in the health institute’s recent history, and that the credit went largely to Mr. Specter.
“He turned his support of N.I.H. into the fulcrum of the entire stimulus negotiations,” Mr. White said.
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There's a wide gap between "moderate" and "socialist", and Specter is on the wrong side of that gap.
Oh, and he has an ego the size of Jupiter.
Specter is a dirtbag.
Have you by chance ever noticed the "preview" button inbetween the spell and post buttons?
Not even close to the human excrement that is specter.
LLS
Who cares about the NIH anyhow? Why does Arlen care THIS much?
Without socially conservative values in the end you will support big government.
As Mr. Durbin recalled, at a Super Bowl party at the White House on Feb. 1, “I told him (Spector), ‘I’m keeping my word.’ ”
1) What is Spector doing partying with Democrat senators at an Obama Whitehouse?
2) Spector lied on national TV.
Ingraham: “Is it nice to be wined and dined at the White House?” Ingraham asked. “And, you’re treated pretty well when you’re a Republican bucking other Republicans, right Senator?”
Spector: “Now let’s get off it Laura,” Specter replied. “I’m not drinking any wine at the White House and I don’t dine at the White House. If the president wants to talk to me - I talk to him and I make my own independent judgment. Don’t give me the wine and dine baloney young lady.”
It seems worse than that, even. AS thinks he can cure cancer, just darn it, the other Senators won’t give him the money. And listen to Durbin in the article ‘I gave away #10 billion...” like it’s his to just give away.
Well it has become his to take and give away and we just have to take it.
Remember Judas sold out Jesus for 12 pieces of silver, it is the same cost when you figure for inflation.
[“I really do not make deals,” he said. ]
That’s something you hear from Vegas prostitutes.
Rick Santorum should run against him in the primaries!
They share Rahm's sense of hubris. They are gloating and rubbing it in our faces.
He doesn’t make deals? No, just sells out his country.
The man is nothing more than a whore.
His treason is all about "me" under the cover of altruism.
Leni
“The man is nothing more than a whore.”
Isn’t that an insult to all the whores in the world?
Had President Bush not gone to Pa. to campaign for Senator Exspecterant, (your name for him and I like it) Toomey very well might have won. The folks of Pa. have to get this democrat in Republican clothing out of office.
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