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Submitted by tdawg11870 on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 11:33
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It's safe to say that you have heard that Sen. Arlen Specter has switched parties from (nominal) Republican to Democrat. 

I imagine that a lot of people here and elsewhere will wish him a good riddance.  Given the frustration conservatives have felt with his decisions on many occasions, it's only natural.  However, all the whining about Specter, the primary challenges and the general abuse hurled towards this man has left us without enough votes to filibuster and yet another seat to claw back come the next election.

Congrats, guys.  We're a little more ideologically pure and a little smaller.  Funny how that works.

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I feel better.

Submitted by thirdeblue on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 11:53.

The Republican Party is becoming more pure, Yeah!  I think there are a couple of ladies (Olympia Snow and Susan Collins) in Maine that the Democrats will be willing to pick up as Republican cast-offs too.  Seriously though,  that means there are about $5 million freed up to spend in Ohio and elsewhere for the Democrats.  You should call the Club for Growth and give them your thanks posthaste.

With an attitude like that...

Submitted by tdawg11870 on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 12:05.

...we'll eventually have TONS of money saved up to defend the last 10 Republicans clinging to Senate seats in Dixie. 

Wow

Submitted by ToddLuvsLounging on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 12:00.

Stunned! It takes a lot to change your political stripe at that age. Franken gets in June or July. The magic 60. Obama/Reid/Pelosi has an early Christmas. I was expecting near universal health care, now I expect real universal health care.

Probably revealing my ignorance with this...

Submitted by acinphx on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 17:46.

Everyone seems to assume the imminent magic 60.  Even Sean Hannity, so the GOP must be convinced things won't go Coleman's way with the MNSC.

But he's said he'll take the appeals into federal court, which could take years to make it through to the SCOTUS.  My question:  won't Gov. Pawlenty come under tremendous pressure from the RNC not to certify the election until all appeals are exhausted, including federal?  Is he prohibited from doing that or would it be poitical suicide for him to do that?

Pawlenty is up for re-election in 2010

Submitted by NextRightNando on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 17:53.

Pawlenty is up for re-election in 2010. If he plans to run again, he simply has to sign, or he will be treated to some serious Minnesota Not-Nice.

Politico:

A new Minneapolis Star-Tribune poll out today shows that 64 percent of voters believe that Coleman should accept the recount trial’s ruling that he lost the election by 312 votes. Only 28 percent of voters believe his appeal to the state Supreme Court – which leading Senate Democrats have been willing to grant him – is appropriate. Nearly three-quarters of Minnesotans (73 percent) believe that Coleman should concede if he loses his appeal at the state Supreme Court. And only a narrow majority (57 percent) of Republicans support Coleman’s appeal to the state Supreme Court. A second poll conducted by a Democratic firm shows similar majorities calling on Coleman to concede – with 58 percent would raise serious doubts” towards GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty if he refuses to sign an election certificate assuming Coleman loses his appeal to the state Supreme Court. That’s a sharp shift in public opinion from January, when Franken took the lead in the recount. Back then, a Research 2000/Daily Kos poll showed 53 percent of voters supporting Coleman’s contest of the race – or at least weren’t opposed to it. Now Minnesota voters – including many Republicans -- believe Franken was fairly elected as the state’s second senator, and should be sworn in as soon as possible.

 

Terms of the Deal?

Submitted by gs on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 12:22.

I assume that Specter was promised that the DNC will not fund challengers in the 2010 primaries. 

I wonder what he promised to the DNC.

I wonder what promises will be kept.

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The Democrats remain the stronger of two weak horses.

Better Open Opposition

Submitted by TX Politico on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 12:55.

Better to be able to fight him openly without having to deal with Republican national party types who support him out of some misguided sense of duty.

Bet they feel like idiots now that they scuttled Toomey in 2004.

nah... they had better blackmail on Specter

Submitted by RisingTide on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 13:02.

he was reliable in voting for the Patriot act, and against habeus corpus, and they extracted promises from him in return for his judiciary chairmanship.

the man is blackmailed from here to kingdom come. Like a lot of other powerful men in washington.

duh are you forgetting

Submitted by TheColouredEuro... on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 13:50.

traitors like Evan (I'd wish he'd say) Bye-bye? Didn't he with FIFTEEN others preach revolution against the reckless spending of the President? Unless they are whipped into shape by Rahm Emanuel (I really hope so), there's always some sorta conservative Dems to be poached. YOU people have killed off all your progessive repubs, WE are too nice to do such a thing. Or too soft. All this cut throat politicking, we treehuggers have no stomach for it.

Oh well.

 

 

 

Anger should turn inward

Submitted by skayne on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 17:35.

Toomey can't win in the state. He wouldn't have won in 2004. They should be angry at only themselves. In the republican party, Specter was bashed for voting his state, not Texas or Mississippi or Georgia.