Senator Arlene Spector Switches Parties, Keeps his Suit
Senator Arlene Spector, to the open arms of the Obama administration and leading Democrats, has announced that he is switching his party affiliation.
After voting in favor of the Senate’s version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the $787 billion “Stimulus”), being in support of a “pathway to citizenship”, often referred to as amnesty, and now, leading the charge in support of The Cures Acceleration Network (CAN) Act, which would create “an independent agency dedicated to advancing science from the laboratory into practice”, Spector says his former party had strayed too far to the right (whatever “the right” means anymore).
So, what does it mean now that Spector is a Democrat, giving the party a 60 seat majority in the Senate? What does it mean that his home state of Pennsylvania has seen over 200,000 citizens change their registration from Republican to Democrat? What does it mean now that he is viewed more favorably by Democrats than Republicans and that he has a bill asking for our tax dollars to fund another agency to be managed by an irresponsible Washington DC, all while introducing legislation to form a federally-subsidized four-year college? You decide.
Personally, I liken his party change to changing the lapel pin on your jacket. Still the same guy, still wearing the same suit, and he still has more faith in Washington DC than he has in you.
mattyb said:
Arlen Specter has been nothing but a disappointment to Pennsylvania Republicans (the few, the proud, the brave)and I think it finally does the party a service to have him switch. I hope that through these tea parties, Pennsylvania conservatives will begin to band together and change the way things are done in the commonwealth. I don’t want to live in a “blue state.”
April 28th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Rob P. said:
Arlene, as you so affectionately refer to him, has once again let down his party loyalists. Have no fear, they, the Communist Party, will be waiting for him with open arms to claim him, when he is finally honest with himself and all of the people of this great nation.
Incidentally, I am seceding from the union, effective immediately. I am a sovereign, a Citizen (capital “C”) of the Sovereign Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, not of the United States.
April 28th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Shane Hanson said:
Well it’s about time he owned up to who he is. It’s one thing to be dishonest to other people but if your dishonest to yourself you have serious issues.
While I personally think the republican party is lost, I hope to see several more follow suit. And while it gives the democrats a super majority at least all of America will be able to judge (and sentence) them on their merits and they will have no one to pass the buck to (ie. can’t blame Bush or a republican filibuster).
Nothing like being slapped in the face to wake America up.
April 28th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Richard Miller said:
HurraYYYYY.
The Republican Party has really gone down the hill. Not until it returns to its original founding principles of conservation (both of the natural land and fiscally), providing the services that cannot be provided by the individual states, separation of Church from State, and staying out of peoples private business - not legislating morality, people will leave. Count me with Arlene, I quit the party with Bush II.
April 28th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Husband said:
He’s says “In the course of the last several months since the stimulus vote I have traveled the state, surveyed the sentiments of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania, done public opinion polls, observed other public opinion polls and have found that the prospects for winning the Republican primary are bleak. I am not prepared to have my 29-year record in the United States Senate decided by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate. Not prepared to have that record decided by that jury: the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate.”
What some people will do to get a vote. Maybe Olympia Snowe and John McCain can follow. The Republican Party needs to clean house anyway, and Specter has been part of the dirt and filth for a long time.
April 28th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Lorraine said:
LOL “Arlene” Is there no limit to how low people will stoop to smear others in the name of politics?
May 4th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
melinda said:
Lets not forget when he said that he doesn’t work for the Republican
Party he works for the people of Pennsylvania. Thank You Arlene. Some have forgotten that we the people don’t work for the politicians they work for us. Its astounding that there are still some who cannot grasp that. Some are so caught up in the cause that they have lost sight of what they are fighting for, who they are, and what they truly believe in. Since when does it mean that if we belong to one party or another that we are no longer able to think or speak for ourselves outside of that party. This is the United States of America.
This 200,001
May 9th, 2009 at 4:44 pm