Specter is a sphincter, stuck in the open position.
Posted on 03/03/2010 3:42:59 PM PST by Slyscribe
Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., will vote for cloture on card check if the pro-union legislation comes up for a vote, he told businessmen Tuesday.
Specter’s vote alone is not likely to ensure passage of the bill, formally known as the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make union organizing radically easier. Democrats lack a 60-vote majority in the Senate, it has no Republican support and other Democrats are likely to oppose it. But Big Labor probably needed Specter to even have a chance.
Specter may be feeling political heat.
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why do a card check reconciliation rider to the death care bill.
Aged whore, what a pathetic end to a career.
Arlen sold his soul.
Arlen Sphincter says what?
I’m certain decorum was the only thing keeping those businessmen from throwing things at Specter.
Since his party switch, he’s been a solid vote for every leftist initiative imaginable. He only took marginally non-leftist stances in the past because he knew what was expected of him as a Republican. What a completely unprincipled piece of trash.
Arlene, plying the trade of the oldest profession.
No, not quite. The sanitation department frowns on it when you put shit in your trash bins.
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Specter to buck party, vote for stimulus ($6.5b pay to play?)
Scraton Times ^ | February 09, 2009 | BORYS KRAWCZENIUK
EXCERPT
Mr. Specter said he would have supported the (stimulus) package even if Democrats had not added $6.5 billion in additional money for the National Institutes of Health to the final version of the bill.
Mr. Specter had sought the money for years, and had mentioned that he wanted the money in the bill when he met with President Barack Obama last week.
A truly great statesman and man of honor he is.
Term and age limits .
Does 60 votes matter any more? We now have another US House with a few extra powers. Why, with majority rule, we can have a permanent dictatorship.
More odious emanations from Arlen Sphincter.
Being a Senator is the only thing keeping this guy alive. I would bet that if he fails to win reelection he will be dead in two years.
Spectre is buh-bye.
How many more days must we suffer this fool?
Do you mind if I use it?
Arlen is bitter, spiteful, peeved.
This is his revenge, pure and simple.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Be my guest....
Ramesh Ponnuru
May 28, 2003, 8:30 a.m.
Lobbyist Bites Dog
David Keene’s Pennsylvania surprise.
ou would expect David Keene to be on board for the Toomey campaign. Keene is the chairman of the American Conservative Union. Pat Toomey, a House Republican from Pennsylvania, has a 97-percent rating from the ACU. Toomey has been a leading advocate of personal accounts for Social Security. He sponsored a bill in 2001 to make President Bush’s tax cut larger. He has tried to force spending restraint on his colleagues in both parties.
Toomey is running for the Senate in a Republican primary against the incumbent, Arlen Specter. The latter is one of the most liberal Republicans in the Senate. He voted to shrink Bush’s tax cut in 2001. He is a leading advocate of cloning. He wants to grill Bush’s judicial nominees to make them pledge their fealty to diversity. He voted against impeaching President Clinton. And so on. Specter has a lifetime rating from the ACU of 47 — a fact that Keene acknowledges.
Yet Keene has written a column in support of Specter.
Keene notes that Specter has sometimes been a useful ally of conservatives, as in the confirmation of Clarence Thomas. This is true, but it is not much of an argument for keeping a 47-percent conservative when you could have a 97-percenter. A conservative could nonetheless support Specter in good conscience on the theory that Toomey would be likely to lose the seat for the Republicans, and that in today’s circumstances that is not a risk that should be taken. I wouldn’t agree with this argument myself: Toomey has a pretty good track record in places you wouldn’t expect conservatives to do well. But in any case, Keene does not make this argument from pragmatism.
Instead, he claims that Specter is worth supporting for his personal qualities: “I’ve known and worked with Specter for more than a decade. . . . He is honest and decent, and, unlike many of his colleagues, his word is always good. When he’s with you, he’ll tell you, and when he’s against you, he’ll let you know that, too. . . . I may be going soft, but I like him. I like his honesty and his willingness to listen. . . . Arlen Specter is what we used to call a standup guy. He isn’t always with us, but when he is you can take his word to the bank. He’s willing to climb out of his foxhole and take on the opposition. . . . It may not count with many conservatives, but it counts with me.”
Well. It must be said that Keene’s view of Specter as a likable fellow is, um, not universally shared. But be that as it may. There are plenty of liberal Democrats in the Senate who are honest and affable as well. We would not, however, expect the chairman of the ACU to endorse them on that basis, or even to stay neutral in their races.
Thirty-three Republican congressmen have written to the ACU’s board of directors to express their “dismay” at Keene’s endorsement, which, they claim, “has brought discredit and embarrassment to your fine organization.” They acknowledge that Keene’s column was not written in his capacity as the head of the ACU — although the column did identify him as such — but say that it has “placed in doubt” the ACU’s “commitment to conservative principles.”
Some conservative activists are also raising the question of whether Keene has a conflict of interest. As The Hill also notes, Keene is “a managing associate with the Carmen Group, a D.C.-based governmental affairs firm.” In other words, a lobbyist. A brief review of the lobbying-disclosure reports reveals that Keene is frequently listed as doing lobbying work that concerns the Senate Appropriations Committee: for example, lobbying on the appropriations bill that funds the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services. No doubt all this lobbying activity is directed toward shrinking the federal government. But it is worth noting that the chairman of the Senate subcommittee on Labor-HHS appropriations is — Arlen Specter.
Keene’s colleague Donald Devine recently wrote a memo arguing that conservatives, their movement having been taken over by imposters comfortable with big government, should start a new magazine. I disagreed with Devine’s analysis. But a new, less compromised version of the American Conservative Union may well be in order.
That old whore will say and do anything to keep his cushy seat.
Anything.
Thank you
I heard on Fox last night that Specter is no longer behind in the polls and that he’s now ahead of all of the candiates (including conservative Twomey). What is wrong with the PA voters? They couldn’t possibly like this turd, could they? Of course, I said the same thing about McCain and AZ voters too, so what do I know?
Sadly, supporting Card Check probably helps Specter in his state, which still has a large union presence. Specter needs union money and volunteers to have any chance at winning against Toomey. Snarlin Arlen is still in trouble unless the playing field dramatically changes. Even his most favorable pollster, Quinnipiac, shows Specter’s weakness. 52% stated he didn’t deserve to be re-elected, including 54% of Independents and 27% of Democrats.
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