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42 days separate Arlen’s definite stances.
We have just witnessed in politics what Common Sense University like to call a very strong reason for term limits for all elected officials! Specifically, in this instance, for the members of the United States Congress. Case in point, Senator Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania who served as a so called “moderate Republican” in the Senate since 1981. He was a liberal in disguise, he exemplified what is referred to as ‘RINO’s’ (acronym for Republican In Name Only). On April 28, he switched his party affiliation and he is now serving as a Democrat the remainder of his current term which will expire in January 2011 and he plans to run for re-election next year as a Democrat.
His rationale for switching parties was that results of recent polls in Pennsylvania, where he trailed another Republican by nearly twenty percent, indicated that he had only a very small chance of re-election as a Republican and “he was not ready to give up 29 years of hard work and achievements for the American people”. The man is 79 years old and will be at least 80 when his current term expires. Below is a video where he as recently as seven weeks ago proudly announced that he would not consider switching parties (from ‘R’ to ‘D’) and that a strong two-party system had to be retained in the Senate. Now he claims that the Republican party had moved too far to the right and he felt more comfortable among Democrats. Can you say “Flip-Flop”?
In light of this, how hypocritical and self-serving is his party-switch? He is essentially now the 60th member of the Democrat caucus and will give the Democrats a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. He has in all these years totally forgotten that he is there to represent the people of Pennsylvania, now it’s all about him and hanging to power no matter what it takes. There is really no stronger case to be made for term limits for members of Congress! If Arlen Specter’s despicable selfish and hypocritical action are not reason enough for people to see this for what it is, then we have to accept the consequences of not being well represented in Congress. Only term limits could fix this problem once and for all. Unless the people of Pennsylvania decide to teach him a lesson and not re-elect him in November of 2010.