{"id":289,"date":"2009-05-06T09:40:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T13:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2009-05-06T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T13:40:05","slug":"specter-getting-what-he-deserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/specter-getting-what-he-deserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Specter getting what he deserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkUrbin\/statuses\/1644867931\">I predicted that RINO\/DINO Specter would get screwed over<\/a> by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/polyticks\/democrats.html\">democrats<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/34648-1.html\">I was right<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite promises from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) would retain his seniority after switching parties, Specter will be put at the end of the seniority line on all his committees but one under a resolution approved on the floor late Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Under the modified organizing resolution, Specter will not keep his committee seniority on any of the five committees that he serves on and will be the junior Democrat on all but one \u2014 the chamber\u2019s Special Committee on Aging. On that committee, he will be next to last in seniority.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Specter \u2014 who as a Republican was ranking member on the Judiciary Committee and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, as well as ranking member of the panel\u2019s Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education \u2014 will now rank behind all the other Democrats&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Important lesson here on just what the &#8220;promises&#8221; of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/polyticks\/democrats.html\">democrats<\/a> is worth. <\/p>\n<p>Specter should have demanded his <a href=\"http:\/\/netrightnation.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=755155:enjoy-the-silver-specter&#038;catid=1:nrn-blog&#038;Itemid=7\">thirty pieces of Silver<\/a> up front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I predicted that RINO\/DINO Specter would get screwed over by the democrats, and I was right. Despite promises from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) would retain his seniority after switching parties, Specter will be put at the end of the seniority line on all his committees but one under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[262,621,724],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-democrat","tag-politics","tag-specter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-4F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}