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Title: Senator Arlen Specter Switching To Democratic Party Pushing Democrats One Step Closer To A 60-Vote Filibuster-Resistant Majority
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Associated Press
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Published: Apr 28, 2009
Author: Associated Pres
Post Date: 2009-04-28 12:15:15 by Brian S
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(04-28) 09:08 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- 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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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Good riddance to bad rubbish, they can have him. Not that he's much different than the Senate Republicans to begin with....
_________________________________________________________________________ Maybe this is just the beginning. Maybe Ron Paul really will take over the GOP. ;-)
A. Spectre is not a moderate. He is, and has long been, a liberal and a RINO. B. The Republican Party is not largely made up of conservatives. It is largely made up of tools who talk conservative and vote against the Constitution. C. Good riddance to Spectre and I hope the bastard loses his seat.
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
proof that most of the elite politicians are unprincipled and that their strongest conviction is their selfish political expedience.
The smooth criminal transition from Bush/Cheney to Obama
Specter, in a second stunning move, opened an account at the Nest. His tentative screen name will be Another leftist Jew for Obama.
In reality, MOST of the GOPers from up North and East and out West are not compatible even with the so-called "Blue Dog" caucus of Southern Democrats, much less the "true believers" in their own party. The Southerners have a point when they claim this is not their country. There is no way they can ever reconcile their Bible thumping/warmongering (the two are related because they emphasize 'Yahweh' the angry god of the chosen people who wipes out anyone in their path) with the more rational viewpoints of the other regions of the country. This is a country ruled by one political party now. And it will be for as far as the eye can see or until we collapse. The latter will come first, I think.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#2. To: B S (#0)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#3. To: X-15 (#1)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#4. To: Brian S (#0)
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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