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Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat
Akido37 was one of many readers letting us know that US Sen. Arlen Specter has changed parties to become a Democrat. This gives the Democrats 59 seats in the Senate, and 60 if and when Al Franken gets seated from Minnesota. However, Specter said in his announcement that he will not be an automatic 60th vote for breaking Republican filibusters. While the senator's move seems to have surprised many Republicans, it is understandable to moderate Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, who said, "You haven't certainly heard warm encouraging words of how they [Republicans] view moderates. Either you are with us or against us." Specter noted that in his home state of Pennsylvania, 200,000 formerly Republican voters switched party allegiance last year.
...Specter was a Republican to begin with?
I find the principle of political parties disgusting and cowardly.
If you vote for the party, you deserve to get raped by your representative.
He was elected as Arlen Specter, and he's the same Arlen Specter he was last week. If you voted for him solely because of the R next to his name, you don't deserve a vote at all.
As said by the estimable Jon Stewart, "I think they're confusing tyranny with losing." It makes them look unhinged.
Long? What do you mean the signature at the bottom of every comment I post on Slashdot is too lo
The correct term is universal health bureaucracy, there is no care involved.
Yeah, why would anyone want Universal Health Bureaucracy when our current system of Private Health Bureaucracy works so well