Well, you never know what surprises each new day will bring. Today Pennsylvania Republican Senator Arlen Specter announced that he would be switching his party affiliation and joining the ranks of the Democrats, potentially giving them the magic number of 60, which would give the Democrats control of the Senate (that is, once defeated Republican Norm Coleman's lawsuit challenging the count result in Minnesota that gave the victory to Democrat Al Franken is resolved). Said Specter of his shocking decision: "Since my election in 1980 ... the Republican Party has moved far to the right...I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans." Ever since his election to the Senate, Specter has been a moderate faction of the right-leaning Republican Party. He faced recent ire from his Republican colleagues when he and two other moderate Republican Senators (lonely souls that they are) voted for Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus plan. Said Senator Olympia Snowe, another beseiged Republican moderate: "Many Republicans feel alienated and disaffected from the Republican Party." Well, c'mon over to the Democrat side, lady---the weather's just fine.
Specter made it clear that Democrats have been making overtures to him to switch sides for "the past five years", and ever since his supportive vote of Obama's stimulus plan, Vice President Joe Biden has had 14 separate conversations with Specter. Oh, Joe, you crafty 'ol buzzard, you!
On a related note, Rush Limbaugh became the first human being to actually shit a brick!



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