Posted on 02/20/2009 11:44:50 AM PST by rabscuttle385
ELLWOOD CITY — Since voting last week to approve the $787 billion stimulus package, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., has caught a little heat from fellow Republicans for breaking ranks with his party.
Passage of the stimulus package was regarded as the first major legislative victory for President Barack Obama and a defeat for Republican opponents, and some of them, Specter admits, were a little sore over it.
But Specter said Thursday during a business forum at ESB Bank’s corporate office in Ellwood City that other Senate Republicans had a different view.
“One of my colleagues said, ‘Arlen, I’m proud of you,’ ” Specter said. “I said, ‘Are you going to vote for it?’ and he said ‘No.’
“There were people who didn’t want the bill to fail. They just didn’t want their fingerprints on it.”
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Draft Toomey in ‘10!
Go sniff up your master obammy’s leg, you pathetic moron Spector!
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