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Title: Specter says he's switching from GOP to Democrats - Obama: "Thrilled to have you."
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URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97RJ5B01&show_article=1
Published: Apr 28, 2009
Author: By DAVID ESPO
Post Date: 2009-04-28 13:03:44 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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"I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans," Specter said in a statement posted on a Web site devoted to Pennsylvania politics and confirmed by his office. Several Senate officials said a formal announcement could come later in the day or Wednesday. Specter, 79 and in his fifth term, is one of a handful of Republican moderates remaining in Congress in a party now dominated by conservatives. Several officials said the White House as well as leaders in both parties had been involved in discussions leading to his move. With Specter, Democrats would have 59 Senate seats. Al Franken is ahead in a marathon recount in Minnesota, and if he ultimately wins his race against Republican Norm Coleman, he would become the party's 60th vote. That is the number needed to overcome a filibuster. Specter faced an extraordinarily difficult re-election challenge in his home state in 2010, having first to confront a challenge from his right in the Republican primary before pivoting to a general election campaign against a Democrat. "I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate," he said in the statement. "I don't have to say anything to them. They said it to me," Specter said, when asked in a Capitol corridor about abandoning the GOP. A senior White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because no announcement has yet been made, said at 10:25 a.m. EDT Tuesday President Barack Obama was handed a note while in the Oval Office during his daily economic briefing. The note said: "Specter is announcing he is changing parties." At 10:32, Obama reached Specter by phone and told him "you have my full support" and that the Democratic Party is "thrilled to have you." Specter had publicly acknowledged that to win in 2010, he would need thousands of Pennsylvania voters who switched from Republican to Democrat last year to vote for Obama to flip back to the GOP to cast ballots for him. Specter says he's switching from GOP to Democrats 
Apr 28 12:45 PM US/Eastern
By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent
(3 images) WASHINGTON (AP) - Veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter disclosed plans Tuesday to switch parties, a move intended to boost his chances of winning re-election next year that will also push Democrats closer to a 60-vote filibuster-resistant majority.
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#14. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
Old " Magic Bullet" Specter should have gotten his personal one a LONG TIME ago.
Remember the senate hearing when (Michigan Militia Brigadier General) Norm Olson said to Specter, "I'm not the one who came up with 'the fictional magic bullet story', Senator", or words to that effect. And the whole gallery laughed out loud, a deep, roaring belly laugh that humiliated Specter! Specter then tried to calmly explain why that grotesque assassination fairie tale was factual and indeed plausible but to no avail. From that moment on he had to wonder if his staff, his fellow politicos and even the whole country is deferential in his presence and tippy toes around it but disbelieves him and that whole crock o' dewdie known as The Warren Commission Report because of his blatant lies. (which was confirmed by President "Isn't there an escalator here someplace?" Ford shortly before his death) Perhaps Specter is being positioned to validate the questionable evidence for the next assassination and it will that much more easy to sell coming from a Senior Democrat. I mean, is tapping Specter to chair the next commission any more absurd than the attempt to put Kissinger on the 9/11 Damage Control Team? The irony of this defection is, we're supposed to believe that he's changing parties as a matter of ideology and principle. The real truth is the GOP is dying, having allowed their party to be abused by Israeli Zionists, the MIC and all of BushCo's buddies who strip mined the treasury, and they never gave any thought to how the party would survive once they openly sold their souls for the privilege of an eight year orgy of greed and lust for power. (But this poses no problem for "goal oriented chameleons and "dual loyalists" (sic) like Specter, Lieberman, David Gergen, Ted Turner, etc. And, Specter's move will force the GOP to either get on their knees and deliver everything that AIPAC demands on Israel's behalf, or, back the principled conservatives who are trying to restore the party and take their chances without Jewish financial support. Both with likely prove to be too little, too late, and the graves are being dug as I type. Even the Socialist Republicans (seniors, farmers, all who want govt health care and see this as the chance to get it) will have no choice but to vote in their own interests, and only the extremist "Young Republicans for Christ" and brainless loyalists who'll vote "Republican" no matter who or what their current sales campaign is based around will lemming over the "cliff of losers". And, they won't have the numbers to defeat the majority that has now ripened and are ready to vote themselves govt benefits and not be sidetracked by ancillary issues such as abortion, school prayer, Evolution-Intelligent Design and other issues that don't feed the bull DAWG. President Obama is about to wield the most power of any president since FDR, and all efforts to defeat him will exemplify the futility of resisting an idea whose time has come. That time is, "The Fall Of Rome Book Two".
The real truth is the GOP is dying, having allowed their party to be abused by Israeli Zionists, the MIC and all of BushCo's buddies who strip mined the treasury, and they never gave any thought to how the party would survive once they openly sold their souls for the privilege of an eight year orgy of greed and lust for power. (But this poses no problem for "goal oriented chameleons and "dual loyalists" (sic) like Specter, Lieberman, David Gergen, Ted Turner, etc. . . . That time is, "The Fall Of Rome Book Two". I agree with ya. These people are morally and ethically bankrupt, and they've done the same with and to everything they've touched.
You know, I'd be ashamed if Americans were openly posting these types of observations about me. But, the arrogance of incumbent politicians makes me furious at the stoopid voters who feel they owe their "loyalty" to these familiar faces who deliver the "constituent services" that guarantee their careers in and obscenely lucrative pensions from Congress.
But, the arrogance of incumbent politicians makes me furious at the stoopid voters who feel they owe their "loyalty" to these familiar faces who deliver the "constituent services" that guarantee their careers in and obscenely lucrative pensions from Congress. I bet most Americans would, but those are the same people who are voting to retain these frauds. What does that say about them, truly, then??? How can anyone DARE continue to vote for the likes of Kennedy, the murderer, Specter, the traitor to America, Hillary, Schumer, and about 90% of the rest of them? What is wrong with the Americans?
They got beaten into submission by an infinitely rapacious group of oligarchs who wanted absolutely everything for themselves and nothing for anyone else. As a result, the vast majority of the population found themselves working harder and harder for less and less until they were all so busy working themselves to death just to survive that they didn't have any energy left to get involved with their communities or their political system. This suited the oligarchs just fine, of course. At least until the point came where their insatiable greed ended up becoming their undoing.
#35. To: Elliott Jackalope (#33)
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But, of course. I hope they all choke on the dollars they idolize.
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#22. To: tom007, Deasy, James Deffenbach, litus, Artisan (#14)
Old " Magic Bullet" Specter should have gotten his personal one a LONG TIME ago.
#23. To: HOUNDDAWG (#22)
The irony of this defection is, we're supposed to believe that he's changing parties as a matter of ideology and principle.
#25. To: litus (#23)
These people are morally and ethically bankrupt, and they've done the same with and to everything they've touched.
#27. To: HOUNDDAWG (#25)
I'd be ashamed if Americans were openly posting these types of observations about me.
#33. To: litus (#27)
What is wrong with the Americans?
Replies to Comment # 33. the vast majority of the population found themselves working harder and harder for less and less until they were all so busy working themselves to death just to survive that they didn't have any energy left to get involved with their communities or their political system.
bingo
#38. To: Elliott Jackalope (#33)
This suited the oligarchs just fine, of course.
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