Arlen Specter is out to serve PA. He hates to lose. There is no way he will screw the Dems over right now. Ed Rendell will make sure of that.

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We have employment problems, so he should just accept his comfortable retirement and give someone a job opportunity.

I must disagree. Is Specter really a Democrat? Of course not: he’s an opportunist, an undependable voter on either side, and sometimes a hypocrite. But if he prevents even one filibuster on even one significant issue… health care, for instance… I am willing to tolerate his self-serving hypocrisy in exchange. Specter is LIEberman with a different label of origin. Just as LIEberman is offensive but occasionally useful, so Specter may be useful. Politics is seldom tidy, and we are, in this case, discussing politics, not principle.

Of course, we need to see Franken seated before the issue even arises. That will happen about two weeks after Coleman steps in the grave…