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Did He Think He’s Was Going To Keep His Seniority?

May 6, 2009 GOP/RNC, News, Opinion, Stupidity, US Senate View Comments

I don’t hide the fact that I have a child with special needs nor do I hide the fact that she requires a lot of medical attention which takes me away from the political sphere from time to time. That said, when Arlen Specter – author of the Single Bullet Theory – decided that he stood a better chance in the 2010 Primaries as a Democrat than a Republican, I wasn’t around to comment. But today’s headlines are prompting me to say a little something about Benedict Arlen.

I don’t call him that because he turned his back on the GOP. I call him that because he was never truly a member of the Republican Caucus. What brings me to that conclusion you ask? Simple. Each and every time his vote was needed to prevent the expansion of the federal government, or keep taxes low, or block whatever harmful legislation proposed by the Democrat Caucus, Specter voted with the Democrats.

Like a spy in the ranks Specter was only there to disrupt the natural order. A liberal in Republican clothing and needed to be ousted and not left to decide this change on his own.

What surprises me about today’s headline is – Did he actually believe that he was going to keep his seniority when he changed Party’s? The Democrat Caucus has no reason to allow him to nor should he expect it. So why is it a headline?

FoxNews.com – Specter a ‘Junior’ Democrat
The Drudge Report – Dems screw newest member; Specter Will Be Junior on Committees…

From Roll Call:

Despite promises from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) would retain his seniority after switching parties, Specter will be put at the end of the seniority line on all his committees but one under a resolution approved on the floor late Tuesday.

Under the modified organizing resolution, Specter will not keep his committee seniority on any of the five committees that he serves on and will be the junior Democrat on all but one — the chamber’s Special Committee on Aging. On that committee, he will be next to last in seniority.

As a result, Specter — who as a Republican was ranking member on the Judiciary Committee and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, as well as ranking member of the panel’s Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education — will now rank behind all the other Democrats, at least until the end of this Congress.

Now that he is no longer the Ranking Minority Member of the Judiciary Committee (among others) this is an opportunity for the Republican Leadership to replace him with a more reliable vote.

So – THANK YOU ARLEN SPHINCTER for your defection. It was a long time in coming and I cannot wait for next spring with your new Party fails to nominate you and the Republican nominated from your state is a true Republican not a wishy-washy POS like you.

I’ll get into Sphincter’s “Single Bullet Theory” another time.

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