nice work, joe.
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In the Democratic Party’s courtship of Arlen Specter, no one may have played a bigger role than Vice President Joe Biden.
Biden has been trying to convince Specter to switch parties for at least the past five years, but those efforts were stepped up once he was sworn in as vice president, a senior White House official said.
Biden has met or spoken on the phone with Specter an average of once a week since the Inauguration. And after Specter became one of three Senate Republicans to support the administration’s stimulus package, those conversations were increased.
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Biden: Specter 'significant difference' - Carol E. Lee - POLITICO.com
the front burner issue in the coming months will be health care and specter's vote can be counted on for that.
americans want affordable, universal health care, and specter's vote will likely prevent the obstructionist, far right republicans from filibustering the legislation, and the dems also won't have to use a parliamentary procedure unfamiliar to casual observers...it will be an open and public, straight vote.
specter's far too much of a hawk for my liking, but obama will eventually clean up the fiasco in iraq....this move was all about health care.