Posted by
Nick Stuart on Friday, September 26, 2008 9:41:28 PM
Arlen Specter that is. According to the Senate website he's still a senator.
Is he helping with the bailout? Maybe he can get some of his Scottish Law friends to kick in.
Just a layman's perception here but I trace the roots of the Republican debacle in 2006 (and we feel the reverberations to this day with Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid in charge of the congress) to President Bush & John Santorum campaigning for Specter in the primary against Toomey. Then Specter was allowed to ascend to chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
Nice work while it lasted eh Arlen??
The voters remembered and 2006 Santorum didn't get reelected. The general disgust over how the Republicans had handled things caught up with them. "Vote for us, we're not as bad as the other guys" just didn't cut it.
Not in 2006, and not in 2008. Although we'll see how this banking debacle has shaken out by 11/4.