It was supposed to be a meeting, not a roast. But at the inaugural session of Joe Biden’s Middle Class Task Force ...
... in Philadelphia Friday, one guest was in for some rough treatment: Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter.
The moderate Republican – one of three who voted for the stimulus package – found himself the target of good-natured cracks from Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and no lesser personage than the Vice President.
Noting that Specter had supported the stimulus to his own “peril,” Rendell joked: “You could make life a little easier for yourself by taking that registration card of yours and making that little change from ‘R’ to ‘D.’”
Biden, too, expressed gratitude by telling Specter that deep down inside, the veteran Republican – who’s vulnerable to a challenge from the right in 2010 – is really a Democrat.
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