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.
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.
Specter, who rocked Washington’s political establishment and made headlines around the country when he left the Republican Party to join Democrats 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.
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.
Read More at The Hill By Alexander Bolton, The Hill
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Dishonor amongst CROOKS!
mr specter,why are you surprised,ovomit/lucifer/devil and reid and holdup,kagan,pelosi,napalitano,doj/doh/epa,federal reserve have been back stabbing the american citizens,since ovomit/lucifer and his band of traders have been in office,they are all useless/backstabbing/do nothing,and have not lived up to the oath of office.to serve and protect the american citizens.making them aiding and abetting in treason against the american citizens and the constitution,god bless all american veterans and all american citizens.semper fi
I find it curious as to why anyone especially Spineless Specter would feel he has been back stabbed. Thomas Jefferson once wrote or warned in a letter detailing the Anti-republicans party of people he called Office-hunters. He wrote “Office-hunters, willing to give up principles for places. A numerous & noisy tribe”.
There’s a place at GITMO for people like you and the one you so trusted with your crooked career. If Thomas Jefferson was here GITMO would have its own tag line “Equal Opportunity Jailer For Both Foreign and Domestic Terrorism”. However Mr. Specter I think you are in good hands because I don’t feel confident in our congress to pass a law on itself. Just look at the insider trading scandal isn’t that another do as I say and not as I do laws congress operates under. Let me also mention raising the salaries for yourself and staff while others are cutting back. I could go on forever Spineless but frankly you are not worth the effort, just ask you old buddies.
deer arlen sphincter, you commie POS your the same trash with a d after your name that you were with an r after your name , hope your stab in the back hurts like hell and you are treated by govt doctors you POS ,may your memory be short lived …just like ocommicare
My heart bleeds…