{"id":235,"date":"2009-04-29T09:15:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2009-04-29T09:15:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T13:15:14","slug":"the-shifting-morals-of-arlen-spector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/the-shifting-morals-of-arlen-spector\/","title":{"rendered":"The shifting morals of Arlen Spector"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us go back to 2001. Squishy lefty RINO Arlen Spector condemned Vermont Senator Jim Jefford’s cowardly move to the democrat party<\/a>. According the the LA Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Specter said then- Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords’ decision to become an independent was disruptive to the functioning of Congress. He proposed a rule forbidding party switches that had the effect of vaulting the minority to majority status in the middle of a congressional session.<\/p>\n

“If somebody wants to change parties, they can do that,” Specter said at the time. “But that kind of instability is not good for governance of the country and the Senate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let us also look at Arlen Spector’s own word from earlier this month<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“A vote for Specter is a vote for denying Harry Reid and the Democrats a filibuster-proof Senate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The bottom line is that Spector looked at the polls for the Republican Primary in Pennsylvania and saw that he was going to loose big time<\/a>. Given that Pennsylvania went for our Dear Leader<\/em> in 2008, and that most of those votes came out of Spector’s base of Philadelphia, he decided that he had a better change of re-election as a democrat in the general election.<\/p>\n

Arlen Spector’s party switch isn’t about Republican or democrat policies. It’s all about Arlen Spector. <\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Spector’s switch isn’t being praised by everybody on the left. Rachel Maddow is now calling him a DINO<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us go back to 2001. Squishy lefty RINO Arlen Spector condemned Vermont Senator Jim Jefford’s cowardly move to the democrat party. According the the LA Times: Specter said then- Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords’ decision to become an independent was disruptive to the functioning of Congress. He proposed a rule forbidding party switches that had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[262,272,621,653,658],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-democrat","tag-dino","tag-politics","tag-republican","tag-rino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-3N","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}