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Specter To Switch Parties: (fillibuster-proof majority with Franken)
Washington Post ^ | 4/28/09 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 04/28/2009 9:29:46 AM PDT by Nachum

Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and announced today that he will run in 2010 as a Democrat, according to a statement he released this morning.

Specter's decision would give Democrats a 60 seat filibuster proof majority in the Senate assuming Democrat Al Franken is eventually sworn in as the next Senator from Minnesota. (Former Sen. Norm Coleman is appealing Franken's victory in the state Supreme Court.)

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; parties; specter; supermajority; switch
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Crap.
1 posted on 04/28/2009 9:29:47 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Wonder what the dems will give him.


2 posted on 04/28/2009 9:30:21 AM PDT by edcoil (Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner Liberty is a well-armed lamb)
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To: Nachum

Spectre, Snowe and Collins usually voted with them anyways


3 posted on 04/28/2009 9:30:52 AM PDT by GeronL (TYRANNY SENTINEL. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com LIBERTY FICTION at libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: Nachum

And so what ... he voted with the progressives on all critical issues anyway. Never forget that part.


4 posted on 04/28/2009 9:31:09 AM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, your surrender your rights.)
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To: Nachum

Yeah, look for Collins and Snowe to make the leap also.


5 posted on 04/28/2009 9:31:12 AM PDT by umgud (I'm really happy I wasn't aborted)
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To: edcoil

I hope he’s as big a pain in the ass to the Dems as he was to the GOP.


6 posted on 04/28/2009 9:31:30 AM PDT by SeanOGuano
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To: Nachum

Thanks for nothing, Arlen!


7 posted on 04/28/2009 9:31:41 AM PDT by meandog (There are bad no dogs, only bad owners--the only good bad owner is one mauled by a good bad dog!)
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To: Nachum
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"

8 posted on 04/28/2009 9:32:06 AM PDT by 11th Commandment (Proud Member of the DHS radical list since 2008)
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To: Nachum

No, no, no!! This is GREAT news for conservatives!! :-)

2010 is just around the corner. Big changes will be coming as liberal extremists like Arlen Specter will get voted out of congress!! The bottom line is that everyone has a wallet, and all this taxing and spending will be in full force come election time! Kiss most of the dems in congress goodbye then!


9 posted on 04/28/2009 9:32:09 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: Nachum

Good news!


10 posted on 04/28/2009 9:32:14 AM PDT by Obadiah (Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
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To: edcoil

30 pieces of silver.


11 posted on 04/28/2009 9:33:00 AM PDT by henkster (0bamanomics: "I'll loan you all the money you need to get out of debt.")
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To: Tarpon

I’m not too concerned about it. The democrats already had a fillibuster proof majority with Specter on “our” side.


12 posted on 04/28/2009 9:33:04 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: umgud

All three of them (Snowe, Collins and Specter) have no conservative values anyway. If they were honest, they never would have run as Republicans to begin with. Dishonesty abounds in Washington from the president on down.


13 posted on 04/28/2009 9:33:07 AM PDT by azlinda (Welcome to the continuing Demoncrat pity party.)
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To: meandog
Is his switching parties allowed under Scottish rules?

(I think we know the answer from Scottish history).

14 posted on 04/28/2009 9:33:32 AM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: Nachum
Didn't make any difference: the Dems were willing to prostitute the "reconciliation" procedures to pass legislation with a simple majority, and as far as confirmations go, the stinking RINOs in the Senate have a habit of rolling over anyway.

We made this situation inevitable as long as we tolerated Bush's "big government" pseudo-conservatism and the Republicans' K-Street corruption racket.

15 posted on 04/28/2009 9:33:48 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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To: Nachum

They already have it with Arlen, Collins and Snowe.


16 posted on 04/28/2009 9:33:49 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Nachum

Crap?? - this is great! We get rid of a RINO and send him as a DINO into the enemy camp. This now ‘cleanses’ the way for more conservatives. I hope McCain goes too!


17 posted on 04/28/2009 9:33:56 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: Nachum

Slime is as slime does.

Spector is not official slime - instead of RINO slime.


18 posted on 04/28/2009 9:34:05 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: azlinda

Where’s Joe Lieberman?


19 posted on 04/28/2009 9:34:11 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Nachum

Doesn’t change a thing.


20 posted on 04/28/2009 9:34:13 AM PDT by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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