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Former Sen. Arlen Specter dies at 82
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, a Republican turned Democrat, passed away Sunday morning at his home in Philadelphia. Specter, 82, died from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to his son. He underwent chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s disease in 2005 and 2008. Watch video, courtesy of CNN, below:…
Former Sen. Specter: If you fund the tea party, all hell breaks loose
Former Sen. Arlen Specter (PA), a Republican who turned Democrat in 2009, on Monday night decried the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. the Federal Elections Commission. “The big money has come in,” he told Current TV host Jennifer Granholm. “The Supreme Court of the United States has…
Arlen Specter: Mitt Romney changes positions more than a porn star
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter (D) on Wednesday compared Mitt Romney to an actress in pornographic films because he had shifted position so often throughout his political career. “The Republican Party has moved so far to the right, you can’t recognize Mitt Romney,” Specter told MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski. “What Mitt…
Former Sen. Arlen Specter: ‘Cannibals have taken over’ Congress
Former Sen. Arlen Specter, a Republican who turned Democrat in 2009, said Wednesday that “cannibals” were devouring lawmakers who did not maintain ideological purity. “Like cannibals eating their own, that’s what’s happening in Washington,” he said on CBS News. “You had a senator like Bob Bennett, with a 93 percent…
Specter denies making deal with Santorum to support judges
Former Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) Thursday on CNN denied promising his former Senate colleague Rick Santorum that he would support the president’s Supreme Court nominees. At the Republican debate on Wednesday night, Santorum said he endorsed Specter — a pro-choice Republican who voted for health care reform — in 2004…
SC’s Jim DeMint hilariously tries to spin Specter defection as GOP win; Olympia Snowe in panic
I can’t tell if it’s pee-in-your-pants panic or a river of denial for the GOP in the wake of Arlen Specter’s defection, but South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint’s spin is so ridiculous – “Republicans are seeing across the country that the biggest tent of all is the Tent of Freedom”…
Holy Shit
We’re now at 60 Dems in the Senate (assuming Norm Coleman gives up before the heat death of the universe). Thank you, Arlen Specter, you politically motivated hack of a sell-out. Thank you.…
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