Obama Made Arlen Specter Big Promises For Switching Parties

**Mr. Rodgers** · October 20th, 2009, 11:34 AM

Obama Made Arlen Specter Big Promises For Switching Parties. Now, Specter Wants Him To Pay Up

Barack Obama and Ed Rendell were delighted when they convinced Sen. Arlen Specter to switch parties earlier this year. But now that coup falls into the category of "be careful what you wish for," because the president and the governor of Pennyslvania have a problem on their hands: Arlen Specter. Here's the problem: Specter is up for re-election next year, and he was promised the full campaign backing of Obama and Rendell--not just in the general election but in the primary next May, if there was one. Well, there is one, and it is shaping up as a fierce one, against Rep. Joe Sestak, who represents the Philly suburbs. Specter, a notoriously tough and nasty campaigner, will expect his two big backers to support him to the hilt. And Specter, a 79-year-old cancer survivor with enough fortitude for the three of them, has leverage: he's the "60th vote" in the Senate. Read one way, Specter has no choice but to support Obama down the line; read another, Specter has the power, should things get ugly, to snarl the president's legislative agenda

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**Story** · October 20th, 2009, 12:28 PM

The good Senator only wants what's due to him...

Happy Halloween, folks!

**Brick** · October 20th, 2009, 07:22 PM

Has it been said before? When you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas. In Specter's case it's an insult to the dogs!

**AxiTech** · October 20th, 2009, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by Story

The good Senator only wants what's due to him...

Happy Halloween, folks!

Oh, I don't think he REALLY wants what is due him!! Either that or he hasn't fully researched what is due him! I'm pretty sure I have a different view of what he is due, than he does! I'd bet my next paycheck that I am not alone on this too!

**ByAnyMeans** · October 21st, 2009, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by AxiTech

Oh, I don't think he REALLY wants what is due him!! Either that or he hasn't fully researched what is due him! I'm pretty sure I have a different view of what he is due, than he does! I'd bet my next paycheck that I am not alone on this too!

You sir have won a double paycheck. Contact whitehouse.gov for payment.

**Dannytheman** · October 21st, 2009, 05:53 PM

Whichever way he goes, we know what he is!!

He couldn't buy my vote for all the tea in China. But I want HIM and Sestak to make it really ugly and then whoever wins to lose in the general election!!