BREAKING NEWS-Arlen Specter - Page 2

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Yes! Yes! Yes!
He is MY Senator!! lol !
He has always voted as a Democrat and I can officially call him a democrat now and I am sure he will give his Republican opponent a run for his money.Yay!!!!!!

O. M. G. I literally just walked back in from the gym and i couldn't believe my eye when I turned on the tv. I had to go to the DailyKos to convince myself that it was true:

I know you can't see me right now, but I'm doing the YES!!! Dance as we speak.

Check this out:

http://www.congressmatters.com/story...34/2073/81/930

V. BRINGING A MATTER TO A VOTE

The Chairman shall entertain a non-debatable motion to bring a matter before the Committee to a vote. If there is objection to bring the matter to a vote without further debate, a roll call vote of the Committee shall be taken, and debate shall be terminated if the motion to bring the matter to a vote without further debate passes with ten votes in the affirmative, one of which must be cast by the minority.


Your current lineup of Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Arlen Specter
Orrin Hatch
Chuck Grassley
Jon Kyl
Jeff Sessions
Lindsey Graham
John Cornyn
Tom Coburn

Which of these fellas do you think will be ready to provide the necessary one vote from the minority to bring things to a vote in the committee on tough questions now?

Of course, Specter's switch also means the committee's ratio of Democrats to Republicans will be out of whack with the organizing resolution, and a new one will have to be adopted. Republicans will have no incentive to stand in the way of such a resolution, of course, since they'll be able to chuck Specter off of their roster on this and his other committees and replace him. But Democrats will need to account for assigning Specter, too. And if he wants to stay on Judiciary as a Dem, one of the current Dems will have to go. Pick 'em:

Pat Leahy
Herb Kohl
Dianne Feinstein
Russ Feingold
Chuck Schumer
Dick Durbin
Ben Cardin
Sheldon Whitehouse
Ron Wyden
Amy Klobuchar
Ed Kaufman

I'm guessing Kaufman, being the most junior. But who knows what other moving parts there are here?

Meanwhile, let me just suggest that it would be funny for a Democrat to block the new organizing resolution. It would absolutely destroy all sense of collegiality that may still exist in the Senate, but that collegiality may already be out the window with this switch. It'd certainly be good for a laugh, considering that the Republicans were considering blocking the organizing resolutions earlier this year. Let 'em sweat, and let Specter continue to occupy a Republican slot on the committee, while caucusing with Dems.

They won't. But it'd be funny. (Which is why they won't.)

This news cancels swine flu

haha funny. Yay!! Democrats!!

This is amazing news.

Also, Arlen Specter is pretty much the coolest name ever.

No ****ing way! This is a total surprise. I thought he wasn't going to do it.

Everything that has gone bad for the republican party has. They do deserve it though.

Death of Republican Party March 2010. Mark it down. (Well maybe for the next 12-16 yrs).

I soooo saw this coming. Specter got tired of the endless bitching from the residents of Pennsyltuckey. This may just be a move to get re-elected, but hey, I would vote for him if I could.

is specter for the dream act tho??