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Vice President Joe Biden successfully pressed former Senate colleague Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania to abandon the GOP and become a Democrat. The vice president also helped ensure that newly appointed New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand won't face a Democratic primary.
- The Beltway consensus, aka the conventional wisdom, has turned on President Barack Obama.
President Barack Obama urged Pennsylvania voters on Tuesday to support the re-election bid of Sen. Arlen Specter in a personal appearance here for the Republican-turned-Democrat who represents an important test of the White House's political apparatus.
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter took another step in his political transformation on Tuesday, telling hundreds of labor activists that he will support legislation that would make it easier to form unions.
Vice President Joe Biden told a rally at Pittsburgh's Labor Day parade that organized labor was the backbone of the country and that he and Sen. Arlen Specter would continue fighting for workers.
Arlen Specter is running for another term in the U.S. Senate, but he brought down the house at a Pittsburgh-area comedy club.
Sen. Arlen Specter says critics of the Democrats' health care proposals are not representative of the public's view on the issue.
Sen. Charles Grassley, a Republican who is a key bargainer on health care reform, played to packed crowds across the state who left little doubt that they are not happy with what's on the table.
Sen. Arlen Specter faced more jeers and taunts during another town hall meeting that turned into a vocal debate about health care reform.
Sen. Arlen Specter said Wednesday he thinks people who have been angrily disrupting town hall meetings on overhauling the health care system are "not necessarily representative of America," but should be heard.
Voter fears of a government takeover of health care and rampant costs were on stark display Tuesday at a longtime senator's noisy town hall, a session that underscored the challenge for President Barack Obama and Democrats in overhauling the nation's system.
Three years after he knocked off a veteran House incumbent, Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak will seek a bigger prize and challenge Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter for his long-held U.S. Senate seat.
Sen. Arlen Specter ignited a new round of speculation about his health when he remarked that his eyes and nose were running as a side effect of chemotherapy.
Republican conservative Pat Toomey is virtually tied with Sen. Arlen Specter in the long run-up to Pennsylvania's 2010 Senate race, according to a poll released Wednesday.
During the fundraising quarter in which Sen. Arlen Specter switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party, he raised about $1.7 million, his campaign said Tuesday.
Sen. Arlen Specter has told Judge Sonia Sotomayor he thinks it's pretty certain she'll be confirmed for a seat on the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor won her first public pledges of support from Senate Republicans and one prominent GOP opponent, after a smooth performance at her confirmation hearings that has placed her firmly on track to become the high court's first Latina and the first Democratic-named justice in 15 years.
Sen. Arlen Specter told Pennsylvania's Democratic leaders Saturday he's "pleased and proud" to be back in the party he left shortly after launching his political career more than four decades ago.
Sen. Arlen Specter said Sunday he did not seek and was not given any assurance that he would not face a primary challenge when he made the decision to leave the Republican party to rejoin the Democratic party.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge has ruled out running against Republican-turned Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter next year.
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter says transcripts should be made when the CIA briefs members of Congress in closed meetings.
Some Democrats who opened their arms to party switcher Sen. Arlen Specter have softened the embrace.
Sen. Arlen Specter's main opponent in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary next year is dropping out.
Sen. Arlen Specter said Thursday the "prospects are pretty good" for a compromise on legislation making it easier for workers to form unions.
Sen. Arlen Specter says he's open to a government health insurance plan that would compete with private insurers to cover middle-class Americans, a policy reversal for the newest Democrat.
Eye on the Senate: Toomey Gains on Specter In PennsylvaniaSpecter switched parties after polls showed he would have a hard time winning a Republican primary against Toomey. But the Franklin and Marshall survey is the latest in a series of independent polls showing that voters aren't certain that Specter deserves a sixth Senate term.
Obama Every Bit as Bad as Bush/Cheney on Patriot ActFeingold, Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and new Democrat Arlen Specter (Pa.) had the constitutional courage to oppose the Judiciary Committee bill eventually going to the floor that with few exceptions, leaves the Patriot Act intact.
Arlen Specter Is Doomed -- Only 31% of Pennsylvania Voters Think He Should Be Re-ElectedOnly 31 percent of Pennsylvania voters believe Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter should be re-elected, and 59 percent believe it's time to give someone else a chance, a state poll released today shows.
Senate 2010: Most endangered seatsThe 2010 Senate landscape is almost evenly split down the middle: Republicans will be defending 18 seats, while the Democrats will be defending 19 seats, including the January special election in Massachusetts.
Limbaugh wishes Wilson hadn't apologized; Specter wants Wilson censuredMaybe it takes a former Republican to know how to fight back. And here is Limbaugh's latest:
Arlen Specter Tweets: "This U.S. Senator is going to tell him (the President) emphatically that we need the public option"Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) wants there to be no doubt: "[T]his member of congress, this United States senator is going to tell [President Obama] emphatically that we need the public option," Specter said.
Katy Weber Abram: New Right-Wing Astroturf HeroineKaty Weber Abram may be the new "Joe The Plumber." Sean Hannity is promoting her as the newest right-wing heroine in the health care debate. The truth is, she's been involved in right-wing politics for about three years.
Sarah Palin and Chuck Grassley Death Panel Insanity Sarah Palin take pride in lying about the death panel. Chuck Grassley and Arlen Specter get into a twitter argument.
Protester: Obama has 'broken his oath'The man who spoke up at Senator Arlen Specter town hall was on an interview on MSNBC today. He claims that President Obama has broke the oath he took when he became president.
Specter Faces Raucous Crowd at Town Hall MeetingLEBANON, Pa., Aug. 11 -- Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) confronted a barrage of sometimes hostile questions at a raucous town hall meeting here Tuesday, facing frustrated voters who booed and jeered him over his party's plan to overhaul the nation's health-care system.
Specter Faces Hostile Town Hall Crowd"Jeers and taunts drowned out Democrats calling for a health care overhaul at town halls Tuesday, and one lawmaker said a swastika was spray-painted at his office as debate turned to noisy confrontation over President Barack Obama's plan." [Erica Werner, AP]
The Spectecutive Branch. by Mark Steyn. Monday, August 03, 2009... an Arlen Specter defender ... writes:
VIDEO: Specter and Sebelius booed lustily at townhall meeting on healthcare in PhillyIn Philly over the weekend, Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pennsylvania and Kathleen Sebelius (HHS) held a town hall meeting at National Constitution Center. Apparently it wasn't pretty.
Angry right harasses Congressmen with anti-health care chants. House members are back home to begin their month-long recess. The far right has indicated that they plan to welcome many of their representatives with large, angry throngs, demonstrating about healthcare.
Voters and taxpayers complaint about their politicians but how what do they do to effect change? Here, Viners have the opportunity to effect change. Will you?
Maureen Dowd New York Times Op-Ed Columnist - Pharisees on the PotomacLike cats that have lost their whiskers, the Republicans seem off balance now that they have lost their talent for hypocrisy.
Major newspapers disappear Sessions' alleged history of racial insensitivityOn July 14, five major newspapers reported on Jeff Sessions' opening statement at the confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor without noting that, in 1986, Sessions' nomination as a U.S.
GOP loses last Jewish senator with Minn. lossThe defeat of incumbent Norm Coleman in the drawn-out Minnesota Senate race leaves Republicans without a Jewish senator for the first time in half a century.
Congressman Joe Sestak to Run Against Sen. Arlen Specter in the Primary A congressman from the Philadelphia suburbs will challenge U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter in the Democratic Senate primary.
Fox News goes 10 for 10!Congratulations to everyone on the Fox News team. Obviously, it takes a total team effort to be the Leader on cable news. The best way Americans can honor the men and women serving overseas is to be informed about the issues confronting our country.
It used to be that with Fox News crossed over the line from obvioiusly-biased-news-coverage to outright-propaganda that the folks over at Media Matters would post a scathing condemnation of the nutoriously right-wing network.
Renegade Democrats buck Barack ObamaHe's riding high in the polls among his fellow Democrats, but President Barack Obama's political sway within his own party is about to be tested.
Corporations Now Widely Using Wal-Mart Tactics, New Report on Unionbusting FindsA definitive new look at the scope of employer anti-union campaigns by a noted Cornell University labor scholar finds that corporations have ramped up a wide-range of tactics designed to punish and intimidate workers for seeking to form a union.
The GOP JihadAs Specter's forced march down the gangplank makes clear, the GOP is in the midst of a reactionary spasm — one that threatens to marginalize the party for a generation to come.
Feinstein, Specter Compromises Pave the Way For Passage of Employee Free Choice ActNew compromise measures from Diane Feinstein and Arlen Specter may pave the way for the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).
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