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Specter says Obama ditched him after he provided 60th vote to pass health reform
 Former Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) writes in a new book that President Obama ditched him in the 2010 election after he helped Obama win the biggest legislative victory of his term by passing healthcare reform.Oh, dear Specter also claims that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) did not uphold his promise to grant him seniority accrued over 28 years of service in the Senate as a Republican. You don't say... My, my, my... A democ**t with an agenda. What a surprise. That has never happened before Specter, who rocked Washington's political establishment and made headlines around the country when he left the Republican Party to join Democ**ts in April of 2009, has kept quiet about these slights until now. He makes surprising revelations about Republican leaders, as well -- he writes that former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) told him that he would have made the same decision to defect from the GOP if he had been in Specter's position. One loser advises another... Specter says that one of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's (Ky.) first concerns after learning of the impending party switch was that he might be blamed for driving Specter out of the GOP. McConnell, however, quickly got over that when he learned it was just Specter who was Specter declined to discuss the behind-the-scenes machinations of his party switch when he granted an interview with several news outlets on his final day in the Senate, when he reminisced about his career in his hideaway on the first floor of the Capitol. "...there I was in the senate cloakroom fighting off evil republikkkans..." He promised instead to put the juicy details in his memoir, "Life Among the Cannibals," which will go on sale later this month. The Hill obtained an advanced copy. Soon to be available in bargain bins in finer stores a week after that... It was written with his former communications director, Charles Robbins. James Taranto notes Monday: Awful, isn't it? Specter trusted these guys, and they just stabbed him in the back! It must have shaken him to the core to realize just how disloyal distinguished elected officials were capable of being. Posted by: Beavis 2012-03-13 |
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