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Sources: Specter intends to switch parties (AP)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/28/09 | David Espo - ap

Posted on 04/28/2009 9:13:59 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – Several officials say veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania intends to switch parties, advancing his own hopes of winning a new term next year while pushing Democrats one step closer to a 60-vote filibuster-resistant majority.

The sources said an announcement could come later in the day — or Wednesday. The officials who provided the information did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss his plans.

Specter is a 79-year-old veteran of five Senate terms, and one of only a handful of moderate Republicans left in Congress in a party made up largely of conservatives.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 111th; bushlegacy; democrats; gop; parties; rovelegacy; sources; specter; switch
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To: NormsRevenge

Good riddance to Arlen Sphincter!....All Rino’s get the hell out!


41 posted on 04/28/2009 9:27:08 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: NormsRevenge

Good riddance, Specter, you piece of filth!

And Thanks a lot! George Bush, for helping him get re-elected! We really needed that!

Harry Reid will make Snarlin’ Arlen King for a Day...


42 posted on 04/28/2009 9:27:56 AM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: NormsRevenge

I wonder what pay off Sphincter is going to get for helping Dems pass national healthcare reform. That’s what this is all about, really. Dems don’t think they can take public opposition to passing healthcare reform under budget reconciliation. Now with Sphincter’s traiterous switch they have 60 votes and can pass it w/out legislative gimmicks.


43 posted on 04/28/2009 9:28:15 AM PDT by Gothmog (I fight for Xev)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

From your lips to God’s ears!


44 posted on 04/28/2009 9:28:27 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: NormsRevenge

Good riddance to that piece of rubbish.


45 posted on 04/28/2009 9:28:52 AM PDT by Cricket24
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To: NormsRevenge

Alwrong Spincter, backstabbing SOB or two-faced b@stard? At this point, it’s hard to tell.


46 posted on 04/28/2009 9:28:55 AM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I’m contributing to the candidacy of any opponent of Spector, Snow and Collins.


47 posted on 04/28/2009 9:30:04 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: US Navy Vet

Didn’t Steele get the job to ‘clean house’?

I hope he used a size 14 boot


48 posted on 04/28/2009 9:30:19 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: chris_bdba

“FoxNews just announced this. So I guess we can count on nationalized healthcare etc.”

As pathetic as Specter is, this is going to cause A LOT of damage. Along with the fraud in Minnesota.


49 posted on 04/28/2009 9:31:29 AM PDT by CaspersGh0sts
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To: RexBeach

Hey! Howard Sprague had infinitely more integrity and pep than Spectre ever has!


50 posted on 04/28/2009 9:31:55 AM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: NormsRevenge

What an effing traitor! Good riddance.


51 posted on 04/28/2009 9:32:51 AM PDT by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yeah, that’s what I’m thinkin...maybe Steele and Spectre had a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting in which Steele said he was going to kick him out anyway and Spectre is switching parties to avoid that ‘embarrassment.’ LOL....anybody think Steele has the cajones to have done that?


52 posted on 04/28/2009 9:33:14 AM PDT by erkyl (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office --Aesop (~550 BC))
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To: NormsRevenge
Too stupid to know the RATS don't want him either.
Chaffee tried this too and look at where it got him.
53 posted on 04/28/2009 9:33:33 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: NormsRevenge

Supporting Specter - another great Bush move.


54 posted on 04/28/2009 9:33:55 AM PDT by Obamageddon ("I'm outraged that we tortured detainees with Caterpillars rather than Camel Spiders!")
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To: Zathras

The rats don’t want him, they need his vote that’s all.

They have no use for him other than that.


55 posted on 04/28/2009 9:34:57 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (I will not be silenced.)
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Senior Republican Senator Arlen Specter, seen here in January 2009, announced Tuesday that he was becoming a Democrat, boosting President Barack Obama's ability to drive his audacious agenda through the US Congress. (AFP/File/Jim Watson)


56 posted on 04/28/2009 9:35:58 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: patriot preacher

That’s what Andy, Barney and Aunt Bea say? Floyd, too!


57 posted on 04/28/2009 9:36:02 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Do your duty in all things." Robert E. Lee)
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To: NormsRevenge
What does Specter expect to get from being a Democrat? It's not like Leahy will move aside and give up his Judiciary Committee Chairmanship.

Will Republicans remove Specter from his committee assignments? Do Democrats have enough slots to keep Specter on the committees he's currently on now?

-PJ

58 posted on 04/28/2009 9:36:36 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (This just in... Voting Republican is a Terrorist act!)
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To: icwhatudo
No kidding.....

What a joke.....

59 posted on 04/28/2009 9:37:11 AM PDT by Osage Orange (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. - Will Rodgers)
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To: NormsRevenge
April 14, 2009

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn released a letter today offering a full-throated endorsement of Sen. Arlen Specter in his coming primary against former congressman Pat Toomey,

"Article"

60 posted on 04/28/2009 9:37:18 AM PDT by 11th Commandment (Proud Member of the DHS radical list since 2008)
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