Thursday, April 30, 2009

Specter - Defector


Cartoon: Mike Lane, Baltimore Sun, April 28th
From:
Political Cartoons dot com

By John Fritze, USA TODAY, April 29th

WASHINGTON — Hours after telling President Obama that he would be no automatic vote for Democrats — even though he had just joined their ranks — Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter proved the point.

In one of his first major votes since defecting to the Democratic Party, Specter sided with Republicans and voted against a $3.4 trillion budget Wednesday night that laid the broad groundwork for policies championed by Obama's administration.

"I am not a member of any organized political party...
I am a Democrat." -- Will Rogers

See also: Senator Olympia Snowe's NY Times Op-Ed.

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