Happy Hour Open Thread: Specter Votes Against Obama Budget
* Newly-minted Democratic Senator Arlen Specter just voted moments ago against the budget, which endorses much of Obama’s agenda, a Specter spokesperson confirms. That’s his first key vote as a Democrat.
* Judy Shepard is declining to engage GOP Rep Virginia Foxx over her claim today on the House floor that it’s a “hoax” to say that the high-profile killing of her son Matthew Shepard was a bias crime. His mother, who battles bias crimes in her son’s memory, sent over the following response through a spokesperson:
“We are going focus on the successes that we have had in the present and look forward to the possibilities of the future, rather than spend time on the misconceptions that Rep. Virginia Foxx may have.”
* Is Al Franken’s victory in court over Norm Coleman “unlikely”? Here’s the latest from National Republican Senatorial Committee chief John Cornyn on the Minnesota race:
Second, in the unfortunate and unlikely event that Senator Norm Coleman loses his legal battle in Minnesota, Harry Reid will now have his long-coveted 60-seat, filibuster-proof supermajority in the United States Senate.
Many neutral observers think that Franken’s seating in the U.S. Senate is only a matter of time, and think Coleman and the GOP are keeping the legal fight going merely to keep the seat vacant as long as possible.
* Joe Biden swears up and down that the White House is working hard to get the Employee Free Choice Act passed.
* Sam Stein offers a reality check on Specter and Employee Free Choice.
* The NRSC unveils a new Website introducing Dems to new Dem Senator Specter. There’s a lot of stuff on there that will be of great interest to Specter’s challenger in the Dem primary, should he get one.
* Steve Benen points out that self-identified Republicans also hit 20 percent in this week’s Times poll, which means three polls this week have found this.
* Here’s today’s installment in the Michele Bachmann chronicles.
* And Glenn Thrush gets to the bottom of what John Boehner really meant when he said that a piece of Dem legislation made him want to “throw up.”
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Specter voted No along with the party of No already? that was quick.
I’m coming around to the SG view, which is that the only way we know what this means long term is to watch Specter’s voting over time.
Just as an FYI Specter was joined by
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Evan Bayh, Ben Nelson, and Robert Byrd
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http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00173
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Like I said before you have to take the long view with Specter. No matter whether he was a Dem or a Republican we would still have been begging him to vote for cloture every time something big came up. This way we at least have some leverage. I don’t know why everybody is acting like Specter could give President Obama the finger for the rest of this year and that he would still go out and campaign for him. If he steps out of line we primary him. Its really just that simple. What do we lose in the mean time? He gets to keep his seniority but he doesn’t get any chairmanships. All of the upside in this deal really rests with Dems until 2011 and its ironic that the same people who I am sure were ridiculing yesterday for running Specter our of the GOP by giving purity tests are now giving HIM a purity test and wanting to run him out of our party. Now maybe it would behoove everyone to ask how this move hurts the Dems if at all. If you can think of a way let me know.
I just watched Karl Rove on Hannity. I’ve never seen his demeanor quite as it was tonight. He was loud where normally he is not. There was an edge to his voice and facial expressions which gave an impression of some degree of panic. Of course, these sorts of impressions are pretty subjective but he clearly wasn’t presenting himself in a normal way.
Bernie, Josh Marshall at TPM said it well in his liveblog: 8:54 PM … Just broad brush, you watch these press conference as a whole — substance, atmospherics, rhetoric and you entirely understand (both as cause and result) that the Republican party is in a state of complete emotional and physical collapse.
Kathleen – Thanks. Aside from all there other problems, they are up against someone who is (perhaps) a once-in-a-lifetime political figure. And every attempt (continuing) to bring him down is failing (popularity around 80). Rove, of course, is looking at a nightmare version of what could happen to his “genius” reputation.
Just wanted to point out that last night’s and today’s press coverage on Specter has initiated a widespread discussion as to whether the Republican party has moved too far to the right.
That his question is rising to the forefront is very helpful to Dems right now in the same manner that Limbaugh’s prominence helped previously. The party has moved much too far right and the more often we see this notion forwarded the more likely the extremist elements will be perceived in a proper perspective.
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