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Former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, in spite of his previous outburst while attempting to promote his book Life Among the Cannibals, continues going on television to promote his book, Life Among the Cannibals. And it keeps getting weirder.  

It’s probably not the endorsement that incumbent Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch needs right now, as the Republican is locked up in a primary challenge from Dan Liljenquist. But Saturday on Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC show, former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, the co-author of “Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It,” pleaded with Utah voters to keep their senior senator. Specter...  

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College presented their annual Public Service Award to Senator Arlen Specter yesterday for his sustained efforts to increase support for biomedical research and enhance mental health care services at their reception during the 2012 American Psychiatric Association Meeting in Philadelphia.  

Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, psychiatrist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, and Dr. Jack Barchas, psychiatrist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill ...  

They include the man who was arguably among the Senate’s few Constitutional and legal scholars, Arlen Specter, as well as one of the body’s leading Foreign Affairs scholar, Richard Lugar. More importantly, these Senators were institutionalists who ...  

Dear Mark:I thought former Sen. Arlen Specter was gone for good, but now he's back promoting his book about how the "ideological cannibals" are making it difficult to govern in Washington. The title itself takes particular aim at the Tea Party ...  

If you missed it the last time around, you will now have a second chance to see Senator Arlen Specter perform stand-up comedy. Specter will be taking the stage at Theatre Exile‘s Cabaret of the Exiled fundraiser on June 7 at Christ Church ...  

Dear Mark:I thought former Sen. Arlen Specter was gone for good, but now he's back promoting his book about how the "ideological cannibals" are making it difficult to govern in Washington. The title itself takes particular aim at the Tea Party and their supposed lack of willingness to compromise. Do you believe there is any merit to his argument? — Tea Party Ted  

Dear Mark: I thought former Sen. Arlen Specter was gone for good, but now he's back promoting his book about how the "ideological cannibals" are making it difficult to govern in Washington. The title itself takes particular aim at the tea party ...  

In his new memoir, "Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It," former Pennsylvania Senator ARLEN SPECTER tells stories about his decades in politics, serving in the U.S. Senate as ...  

I accidentally turned on CSPAN-2 for a moment today and stumbled on retired Sen. Arlen Specter and Retired Rep. Mike Castle discussing why Washington politics has become so nasty and has entered almost perpetual gridlock. Specter also predicted ...  

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner columnist Dermot Cole notes that a new book by former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter credits Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski with some extraordinary campaigning chops in defeating Joe Miller. “The example of Sen. Lisa Murkowksi is ...  

In the first paragraph of his new book, Senator Arlen Spector blames the Tea Party for producing “gridlock and a dysfunctional government.” Really, it was the Tea Party that messed [...]  

PoliticoIn new book, Arlen Specter gives the naked truth about senatorsWashington PostFormer senator Arlen Specter's new book, “Life Among the Cannibals,” has its moments. On Tuesday, we brought you the squirm-inducing revelation from its pages that Specter thought vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin “radiated sensuality.Arlen Specter: 'Mitt Romney Has Changed Positions More Often Than A ...Huffington PostArlen Specter jokes: Mitt Romney's...  

Richard Lugar's defeat at the hands of a new Tea Party favorite. Former Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter, a Republican turned Democrat, sees Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock's victory over Lugar in yesterday's GOP primary as another blow to ...  

Former Sen. Arlen Specter often changed his ideological persona during his lengthy career, shifting left, then right, then left again as political exigencies required. But one thing that never changed was his remarkable ability to annoy on a bipartisan basis.  

Today on Kilmeade and Friends (3/27), Brian sits down with former Senator Arlen Specter, who’ll talk about everything from Rick Santorum and the GOP presidential race to the Supreme Court’s review of ObamaCare. Specter is the author of ...  

Former Sen. Arlen Specter experienced a meltdown of Pennsylvanian proportions on a talk radio show Friday while promoting his new book, “Life Among the Cannibals.” “Jason, I have one final comment,” Specter said. “I gave you 10 minutes.  

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, who gave Sen. Richard Lugar an unwanted endorsement during his losing re-election primary race, is now offering his toxic endorsement to embattled Sen. Orrin Hatch. From the Daily Caller:Specter told Harris-Perry that the current climate in Washington, D.C. isn’t lending itself to electoral success for moderate incumbents, which he said has been the focus of a crusade outlined in his book.“No, that is...  

The former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter has taken aim at the people he calls the "Cannibal" - damaging American government.  

Former senator Arlen Specter’s upcoming memoir is sure to be a page turner. In addition to hilarious jabs at fellow politicians—“I've known Newt so long, I knew him when he was skinny. In fact, I've known him so long, I knew his first wife ...  

Today in the Huffington Post, D.R. Tucker reviews former Sen. Arlen Specter's new book, Life Among the Cannibals, which describes the plight of moderates in the modern GOP: Despite the flaws of the book—and the author—Life Among the ...  

Former Senator Arlen Specter, 84, used an X-rated reference to mock Romney for his lack of consistency. He's currently promoting his new book, "Life Among the Cannibals," a memoir detailing his experiences as a politician on Capitol Hill.  

Former Sen. Arlen Specter, who played a key role in passage of President Obama’s healthcare reform legislation, confirms to NewsmaxTV that the Senate considered Gov. Mitt Romney’s healthcare reform in Massachusetts as “solid precedent ...  

Something has gotten former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter fired up; and it's not just what he sees as political extremism from his one-time colleagues in the Republican Party. Specter, who switched parties to become a Democrat shortly before leaving office ...  

Former Sen. Arlen Specter, who played a key role in passage of President Obama’s healthcare reform legislation, confirms to NewsmaxTV that the Senate considered Gov. Mitt Romney’s healthcare reform in Massachusetts as “solid precedent ...  

Former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is perhaps most notable in the later years of his career for switching teams in a big way, crossing the aisle after 44 years as a Republican. Specter has most recently been working as an adjunct ...  

Arlen Specter Ogles Sarah Palin. Posted by admin on March 23rd, 2012. Former Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) describes meeting Sarah Palin for the first time in his new book, Life Among the Cannibals: “Still, she was a total charmer, very friendly ...  

As former Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) railed against political extremists whom he termed "cannibals," CNN's Piers Morgan actually encouraged him to "start taking a few of them out for us" and "Bury a few more bodies." Specter had specifically ...  

Sen. Arlen Specter was last Friday’s guest for The Jason Lewis Show to promote his new book. The interview started casually enough, discussing topics such as the Trayvon Martin case and various policies Sen. Specter supported while in the senate. Sen. Specter’s main complaint in his book, as he explained in the interview, was that [...]  

WYNNEFIELD HEIGHTS - March 23, 2012 (WPVI) -- For decades as a sitting U.S. Senator, Arlen Specter's identity was inevitably wrapped up in his party, which for most of his career was Republican. So when that famously changed to Democrat, his identity was ...  

Former Sen. Arlen Specter, who played a key role in passage of President Obama’s healthcare reform legislation, confirms to NewsmaxTV that the Senate considered Gov. Mitt Romney’s healthcare reform in Massachusetts as “solid precedent” for Obamacare. In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV on Monday, Specter was asked what role Romneycare played in the formulation of Obama’s healthcare reform legislation. “Governor Romney’s plan for medical...  

Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing as We Know It by Senator Arlen Specter with Charles Robbins, Dunne/St. Martin's '12, $26.99, 372 pages, ASIN #1250003687. Index, notes, b&w images sprinkled through text. To call former Sen. Arlen Specter "battlescarred" is...  

Former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, currently on a comedy tour for his own amusement or in promotion of his new memoir, Life Among Cannibals, apparently offers much more than anecdotes about government dysfunction. An excerpt obtained by The Washington Post's Al Kamen suggests that in addition to some self-aggrandizement, and stories from Specter's long career in politics, the book might also be part steamy erotic novel. Here's the...  

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter (D) on Wednesday compared Mitt Romney to an actress in pornographic films because he had shifted position so often throughout his political career. “The Republican Party has moved so far to the right, you ...  

Former Sen. Arlen Specter’s new memoir, “Life Among Cannibals,” recounts his party switch, votes for President Obama’s stimulus package and the health care plan. But it’s not just about politics. For example, in one steamy passage on page 156, he recalls riding on Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) campaign bus in 2008 with former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Read full article >>  

Arlen Specter has long been the focus of impressions performed by funnyman Joe Conklin, but on April 28 the former U.S. senator joins Conklin and 94WIP’s Big Daddy Graham in their Two Funny Philly Guys show at the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville.  

DEVON – Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter will sign copies of his new memoir, “Life Among the Cannibals,” 5 p.m. Friday, March 30, at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 150 W. Swedesford Road (Valley Fair Shopping Center). The ZIP for your GPS is 19333.  

Some of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's political opponents like to think of her as a hot bimbo with no place in politics --- but other people of different parties say she's smart and attractive. Former Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA), who ...  

There’s even more hotness than we previously reported in the new book by former senator Arlen Specter, including more dish from the Senate gym. — “It was in the whirlpool at the Senate gym in 2008. . .when Ted Kennedy came over and climbed into the bath. Kennedy was one of the Senate’s giants, in many ways. It was as though a giant walrus had plunged into the sea, causing the level to swell.” Swell! Read full article >>  

DEVON – Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter will sign copies of his new memoir, “Life Among the Cannibals,” 5 p.m. Friday, March 30, at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 150 W. Swedesford Road (Valley Fair Shopping Center). The ZIP for your GPS is 19333.  

Arlen Specter has long been the focus of impressions performed by funnyman Joe Conklin, but on April 28 the former U.S. senator joins Conklin and 94WIP’s Big Daddy Graham in their Two Funny Philly Guys show at the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville.  

Former Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) describes meeting Sarah Palin for the first time in his new book, Life Among the Cannibals: "Still, she was a total charmer, very friendly. The few things she said were intelligent. We were sitting virtually knee to knee in the cramped bus, and she radiated sensuality. Her skirt rode above her knees -- not exactly short, but close." For more, the Huffington Post compiles the "five steamiest passages" from...  

Who else could it be but Arlen Specter? The former party switching Pennsyvania Senator, gives Sen. Orrin Hatch a kiss of death. . “Orrin Hatch is in jeopardy in Utah, I hope that people in Utah — and I know you have a big listening audience ...  

Former Sen. Specter Turns To Stand-UpWKNO FMTake former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, please. ARLEN SPECTER: So, I've been in the Senate for 30 years practicing comedy. Eighty-two-year-old Arlen Specter performed last night at Caroline's Comedy Club in New York. For his 12-minute stand-up ...  

Arlen Specter, the former Pennsylvania moderate most recently used as a cudgel against Rick Santorum in the GOP presidential primary, made the case for Sen. Orrin Hatch in his primary challenge from Dan Liljenquist yesterday on MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry" show.  

In one of the most bizarre analogies of this campaign (so far), Arlen Specter compared Mitt Romney to a porn star. (This clip also has Tina Brown’s comparison of Santorum to Judas Iscariot. The porn-star line begins at about 4:50 into the video.)  

Arlen Specter On Meeting Sarah Palin: “She Radiated Sensuality. ... campaign bus in 2008 with former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. .... I hope Benedict Arlen meets up with Todd Palin, and Todd thrashes the pervy SOB.  

Sample line: “I’ve known Newt so long, I knew him when he was skinny. In fact, I’ve known him so long, I knew his first wife.” Read more posts by Noreen Malone Filed Under: politics ,arlen specter ,caroline's ,funny business  

Apparently Arlen Specter doesn't quite understand the need for commercial time outs on talk radio. Friday while trying to promote his book on The Jason Lewis Show, Arlen pitches a fit like a 5 year old over commercial breaks and hangs up. LISTEN TO AUDIO. (March 30, 2012 Hour 3 at the 28:30 mark.  

#senators Turns out Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania senator who jumped the aisle to become a Democrat in 2009, is a sensual man. "Arlen Specter's Memoir: The Five Steamiest Passages" is the headline of an Amanda Terkel Huffington Post article that really delivers. Excerpts: More »  

Follow stories by David Weigel. MySlate is a new tool that you track your favorite parts Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more. I think this click-friendly HuffPo item on Arlen Specter's ...  

Arlen Specter, the former moderate Republican Pennsylvania senator who switched to the Democratic party in 2009 and now performs standup comedy, told a joke about Mitt Romney on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that stunned the other panelists. Co-host ...  

Tags: Sarah Palin, Arlen Specter Katie Pavlich Katie Pavlich is the News Editor at Townhall.com. Follow her on Twitter @katiepavlich. She is also the author of Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up.  

6abc.comArlen Specter's Memoir: The Five Steamiest PassagesHuffington PostWASHINGTON -- Arlen Specter, the former senator who served Pennsylvania for 30 years, is out with a new memoir that laments the loss of comity in the US Senate, calls for televised oral arguments at the US Supreme Court and airs his grievances against ...Arlen Specter reflects on Lebanon town meetingLebanon Daily NewsArlen Specter talks about his new book6abc.comArlen...  

Arlen Specter, from Senator to... Stand-Up?Slate Magazine (blog)By David Haglund MySlate is a new tool that you track your favorite parts Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more. Take his Herman Cain joke, for instance: "Herman Cain has always had a problem ...and more »  

Arlen Specter does not blame his defeat in the 2010 senatorial election on his raucous Lebanon town hall visit, but he told a Fox News anchor on Friday that it didn't help. Specter, recently released his memoirs, "Life Among the Cannibals: A ...  

"I gave you 10 minutes. You"ve been over every subject except for my book."  

For instance, last week, he made a weird remark comparing Sarah Palin’s skirt length to her “sensuality.” He also called her stupid.  Then he said Mitt Romney has “changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen,” though ...  

WASHINGTON -- In his new memoir, Arlen Specter, the moderate Republican senator from Pennsylvania who famously switched to the Democratic Party in 2009, decries the partisanship and extremism in modern politics. One of the issues that ...  

Poor old fart Arlen Specter spent thirty years ambling around the Senate floor sneaking up on slow-moving colleagues and torturing them with sermons on political moderation, so we expressed a duly moderate skepticism when the Huffington Post promised us ...  

Arlen Specter may have switched parties after John McCain lost the 2008 election, but based on a passage in the former Senator's new book, "Life Among Cannibals," he may have had a bit of a soft spot for McCain's running mate. In fact, one passage in the ...  

Retirement seems to agree with Arlen Specter. On the eve of the release of his new book, Life Among The Cannibals, the former Pennsylvania Senator hit New York's amateur comedy scene, delivering a hilarious — and surprisingly R-rated — standup routine ...  

WASHINGTON -- Arlen Specter, the former senator who served Pennsylvania for 30 years, is out with a new memoir that laments the loss of comity in the U.S. Senate, calls for televised oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court and airs his ...  

Is it merely coincidental that just after Senator Arlen Specter became a Democrat in April 2009 that he turned into an insufferable jackass?It was January 2010 while on Dom Giordano's radio program that Specter condescendingly demanded that Rep. Michele Bachmann "act like a lady" while discussing health care legislation. Can you imagine the veritable firestorm had someone like a Senator Mitch McConnell sneered towards Nancy Pelosi in the same...  

The subject of judicial recusal has attracted attention, focused on Justices Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan, as the Supreme Court argument on Obamacare draws closer. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. implicitly acknowledged this question in his ...  

The country may be focused on the presidential election but former Senator Arlen Specter says Congress is the key to what happens to the U.S. economy. "Regardless of who is elected president, if Congress is gridlocked nothing will happen in ...  

On Kennedy getting in the whirlpool ... And when he's dressed casually, Ben Bernanke is indistinguishable from "a hobo." Check out more from that wacky Specter.  

In his new book, “Life Among The Cannibals,” Specter, 82, writes about meeting Palin, 48 ... pornographic movies and Thomas’s private parts. He made women all across the country sick to their stomachs. In 2010, Specter made a sexist ...  

Her skirt rode above her knees—not exactly short, but close. Suave: Okay.  I didn’t need to hear that. Specter: John Thune, who looked like a movie star in or out of clothes, was constantly stretching. His lanky body seemed to have some ...  

campaign bus in 2008 with former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. “She was a total charmer, very friendly,” Specter writes. “The few things she said were intelligent.” He doesn't mention what they were, maybe because he was ...  

She is a beautiful woman; intellectual value is not her long suit. Sensuality is. Oh dear. Poor Marty's eyes must have popped right the hell out of her head. Who goes to work expecting to have to deal with something like this?  

This happened on MSNBC this morning: "Well, the Republican party has moved so far to the right, you can't recognize Mitt Romney. What Mitt Romney will appear in October?" said Specter. Paraphrasing a recent joke by Bill Maher, Specter said, "Mitt Romney has changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen." Ouch, grandpa. Maybe stick with the Etch-A-Sketch imagery from now on, okay? (Related: Someone needs to write Republican...  

Kelly also shared her memories of that day and how she and co-host Bill Hemmer expected to broadcast only a few minutes of the town hall when they saw the confrontation between Specter and Miller. "An hour later, we had watched the whole thing ...  

Pennsylvania's longest-serving U.S. senator is sounding off in a new book - about life, politics and the future of America.  

No one can accuse Specter of being a class act…not when you deign to belittle and objectify Sarah Palin for the sole purpose of selling a few lousy copies of what would otherwise be a completely disregardable book.  

Throughout his life in politics, former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter often invoked the name of his Yiddish-speaking father, Harry, who left czarist Russia in 1911 for a better life in the United States. Sometimes, the younger Specter would high...  

Hmm. Maybe there should a organ donor policy in place so donors can specify who can or cannot get their organs. The idea that my heart/kidney/whatever going into someone like, say, Karl Rove horrifies me. But then again, it might lead to a lot of people writing in "No Jews" or "No blacks".  

Upfisted solely for stellar grammar and sentence structure.  

This morning on Morning Joe, Newsweek editor Tina Brown compared Rick Santorum to Judas Iscariot. She suggested Santorum had betrayed his past positions, including his support for Arlen Specter in 2004. To take the analogy further into absurdity, apparently Arlen Specter is Jesus, and Pat Toomey the new Pontius Pilate.  

Former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter threw a bit of a temper tantrum during a live interview on a conservative radio talk show. The Republican-turned-Democrat was appearing on the ‘Jason Lewis Show’ to promote his new book when he said ...  

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, who now writes books and jokes for stand-up comedy, lived up to his old ‘Snarlin’ Arlen’ reputation by comparing GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney to a “pornographic movie queen” on Wednesday On MSNBC …  

A lawsuit brought by former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and a co-counsel charging the Nasdaq stock exchange with discrimination against Chinese manufacturer CleanTech Innovations Inc. was orchestrated by controversial Wall Street deal maker Benjamin Wey, according to a new court filing.  

In 2004, even many Republicans thought Pat Toomey was too extreme for the U.S. Senate. Toomey was a little-known, fiscally conservative congressman from Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley taking on moderate Arlen Specter, who was seeking a fifth term. Yet the challenger almost won that Republican primary. Only strong backing from President George W. Bush and Senate colleague Rick Santorum saved Specter.  

On Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien, former Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) shares some stories from his new book "Life Among The Cannibals," including memories of Ted Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Specter says, "I like to use a little humor.  

A lawsuit brought by former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and a co-counsel charging the Nasdaq stock exchange with discrimination against Chinese manufacturer CleanTech Innovations Inc. was orchestrated by controversial Wall Street ...  

In the February debate, Mitt Romney criticized Rick Santorum for twice endorsing Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania’s longtime senator, despite Specter’s liberal views and primary challenges by conservative Pat Toomey. As Romney pointed out in the debate and TV ads, after Specter left the GOP, the new Democrat delivered the 60th vote needed to pass Obamacare. (PolitFact [...]  

Former Sen. Arlen Specter says that depending on which version of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney shows up for the general election, he just may vote for him, reports The Hill. “I’m going to wait to see which Romney it is,” Specter said ...  

Former Sen. Arlen Specter says that depending on which version of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney shows up for the general election, he just may vote for him, reports The Hill. “I’m going to wait to see which Romney it is,” Specter said ...  

Once upon a time, Joe Sestak thumbed his nose at Democratic establishment and primaried party-pick Arlen Specter for theU.S. Senate. As the story goes, he beat Specter, but lost in the general election to Pat Toomey. Now, the former U.S ...  

Toomey was a little-known, fiscally conservative congressman from Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley taking on moderate Arlen Specter, who was seeking a fifth term. Yet the challenger almost won that Republican primary. Only strong backing from ...  

NEW YORK (WXIA) - Former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter made his first appearance on ... Caroline's Comedy Club in Times Square for about 10 minutes as part of a "new talent" show. Specter's foray into comedy has come after he came in second in an ...  

Former Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) says he might vote for Mitt Romney in November, depending on which version of Romney shows up for the general election. “I’m going to wait to see which Romney it is,” said Specter in an interview with The Hill at his ...  

Bernstein wrote in an opinion dated Feb. 21. Bernstein appointed former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter receiver earlier that month. In a phone interview Wednesday, Specter said the bank and the titleholders were scheduled to meet next week in New York ...  

(History note: DeMint chose to endorse Toomey over Arlen Specter in the 2010 Republican primary. A few days after telling Specter this, Specter became a Democrat.) Toomey's selection marks the confidence of his peers. While it's not an official ...  

In his new memoir Life Among the Cannibals, former Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania writes of a trip on John McCain's campaign bus in 2008 with his running mate Sarah Palin. "She was a total charmer, very friendly. The few things she said were intelligent. We were sitting virtually knee to knee in the cramped bus. She radiated sensuality. Her skirt rode above her knees -- not exactly short, but close."  

Arlen Specter in the 2004 primary, which many felt was critical to Specter surviving a challenge from conservative Pat Toomey by 15,000 votes out of more than 1 million cast. (Specter, of course, went on to cast deciding votes in the Senate for ObamaCare ...  

Did you hear the one about the former US senator who made his New York stand-up comedy debut at age 82?Arlen Specter — who spent five terms in Washington honing his delivery — appeared last night at Caroline’s comedy club in Midtown for a “New Talent” show.“As you may...  

Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, saying the Supreme Court’s 5-4 “recurrent” ideological split has “shaken confidence in its integrity,” calls on Congress to set judicial recusal rules for the high court if the justices don’t act. In a Washington Post op-ed, Specter also sounds off on the high court’s 2000 Bush v. Gore [...]  

This GOP primary reminds one of the 2004 Republican primary which elected Arlen Specter as the Republican candidate. A very large group of GOP voters did not want Specter, but wanted an open primary. The GOP oligarchy (political system governed by a few ...  

"This campaign is over for Rick Santorum," Arlen Specter said Thursday of his former supporter. "There's nothing left of his candidacy." – Follow the Ticker on Twitter: @PoliticalTicker In an interview set to air on CNN's "John King ...  

Is Margaret Mead making a comeback? Life Among the Cannibals, the title of Arlen Specter's new memoir, suggests the Washington elite have finally descended into devouring their own. Yet beyond the end of American comity, the five-term senator's ...  

Life Among the Cannibals?A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing as We Know It?By Arlen Specter with Charles Robbins?St. Martin's Press. 372 pages. ?$26.99  

KDKA AM's Larry and John talk to Sentor Arlen Specter about his critical book on changing politics in Washington.  

Arlen Specter said on Wednesday that another former senator from Pennsylvania, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, is too extreme to be president.  

Turncoat former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter is on the Tea Party-bashing book tour circuit. So, naturally he showed up on MSNBC this weekend to nurse his lingering electoral wounds and speak up for the nation’s endangered RINOS, squishes, and Beltway barnacles. As I first noted on Twitter yesterday, Specter spoke — whined — to MSNBC [...]  

"Reality is not negotiable," he said. Specter to Utahns: Don't dump Hatch Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter on Saturday pleaded with Utahns to keep U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch in office. Specter told MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry that Washington is not a ...  

"Reality is not negotiable," he said. Specter to Utahns: Don't dump Hatch Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter on Saturday pleaded with Utahns to keep U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch in office. Specter told MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry that Washington is not a ...  

The Indiana Right to Life political action committee has endorsed Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock (R) in his bid to unseat Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.). Lugar, on the other hand, got some unhelpful praise from former Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), a Republican-turned-Democrat loathed by most conservatives. "We cannot afford to give Richard Lugar the opportunity to help place one more activist judge like Elena Kagan or Sonia Sotomayor onto the...  

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter said Wednesday that he is open to being the GOP presidential nominee in the event of a brokered convention, and that he is reconsidering whether he was right to shepherd the nominations of Supreme Court Justices ...  

Specter says longtime Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman was forced to run as an Independent after liberal Democrats in his state ... the Republican Congress," Specter says. "The art of politics is the art of the possible — it is accommodation.  

Scottish law should be familiar to followers of American politics, since in 1999 Senator Arlen Specter said that on the impeachment of Bill Clinton he favored the Scottish verdict of not proven, which is a third alternative to guilty and not guilty under ...  

Arlen Specter he is not. But we can do better. Mr. Mourdock strikes us, for instance, as a man who would not cast votes, as Lugar did, to confirm Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Nor would he co-sponsor the DREAM Act, support the auto ...  

The Earth Day enthusiast did not spend much time in jail, initially. He became future Sen. Arlen Specter's most famous client. As a 1997 TIME magazine article put it, "Release of murder defendants pending trial was unheard of, but Einhorn's attorney was ...  

Rep. Joe Sestak, a Pennsylvania Democrat who had beaten incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter in a bitter senatorial primary that revolved around Sestak's opposition to health care reform, lost a razor-thin result to a former Republican congressman, Pat Toomey.  

In its debut campaign cycle, the tea party movement drove five-term Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania out of the Republican Party, derailed the reelection bid of three-term Sen. Robert Bennett (R) of Utah, and defeated Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell's ...  

In 2010, Rep. Brad Sherman, a California Democrat, and former Sen. Arlen Specter, a Republican-turned-Democrat from Pennsylvania, introduced twin bills that would have achieved the same goal. Though the bills failed, they are widely considered the catalyst ...  

So there's no downside to just tell him to take a hike." You know what blows me away? Santorum endorsed and cut commercials for Arlen Specter in a 2004 primary battle against Pat Toomey, but can't find it within himself to muster any enthusiasm for the GOP ...  

But like GOP senators Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, Bob Bennett in Utah, and Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania in 2010, Lugar found himself challenged by those in his party who decided he was not conservative enough on federal spending. And Republican insiders in ...  

Arlen Specter. "All kinds of groups, all kinds of crazy groups that don't have to disclose their donors or disclose who they are will be able to pour their money into the race," said state Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Montgomery, who is leading the Democratic ...  

He was defeated in a Republican primary the next year. The same thing happened, more prominently, to former Sen. Arlen Specter, a definite non-Blue Dog (they only exist in the House, not the Senate) who went from the Republicans to the Democrats ...  

Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and former federal prosecutor Linda Dale Hoffa recently criticized the current guidelines as too harsh. "The fact that child pornography offenders can be given longer sentences than child abusers or ...  

Arlen Specter. Her campaign spokesman remained upbeat, citing an appearance by former President Bill Clinton at a Kane rally and an endorsement from The Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday. "I think it's really starting to come together," said the ...  

Arlen Specter. Her campaign spokesman remained upbeat, citing an appearance by former President Bill Clinton at a Kane rally and an endorsement from The Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday. "I think it's really starting to come together," said the ...  

Ben Nelson (D-NE), Joe Lieberman (D/I-CT), George Voinovich (R-OH), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Lincoln Chafee (R/I-RI), Arlen Specter (R/D-PA), and Bob Bennett (R-UT) are among high-profile senators whose history of bipartisanship led to retirement ...  

Arlen Specter. Smith said he expects to raise enough money from donors to support the campaign, but if he has to tap into his own considerable resources, he said, "let's just say the well isn't all dry yet." Smith invested more than $5 million ...  

In the 2010 cycle, Republicans saw three-term Utah Senator Bob Bennett and two-term Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski fall in the GOP convention/primary process, while five-term Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter switched parties knowing full well ...  

The Senate, on the other hand, may be in play. The election of Mr. Obama and the defection of former Republican Senator Arlen Specter created a 60 vote supermajority in the US Senate only two years ago. This allowed Democrats to invoke cloture ...  

I give three examples: state Rep. Paul Clymer, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter. Regardless of your view of these politicians, they all have something extremely important in common. Each was forced to make ...  

back in the 80's Arlen Specter and Ted Kennedy would yell at each other on the Senate floor and then go play around at golf afterwards. He's like, I just don't see that as being possible today. And what I saw with the Booker-Christie video was ...  

The problem with our politics is not that our government isn't run by some middle of the road consensus between Ben Nelson and Olympia Snowe or Joe Lieberman and John McCain or Lincoln Chafee and Arlen Specter. Our problem is that we have one ...  

Arlen Specter. That Sestak was here at all tells you a little bit about the man. He gave up a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, one it took Democrats 20 years to wrestle away from Curt Weldon and Republican control (even if it took a ...  

Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter was so incensed at the very idea of a primary challenge from a more conservative Republican, then-Rep. Pat Toomey, that he switched parties, becoming the most junior member of the Democratic caucus -- and then ...  

but all of it is transparently bogus to anyone paying attention. None of this is any different than the stuff that used to come from Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chafey and Jim Jeffords. http://news.yahoo.com/why-jon-huntsman-is-leaving-the-gop--n...  

Arlen Specter. "All kinds of groups, all kinds of crazy groups that don't have to disclose their donors or disclose who they are will be able to pour their money into the race," said state Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Montgomery, who is leading the ...  

No Republicans voted for it in the House, and three moderate Republicans voted for it in the Senate (Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania). The bill combined tax breaks with spending on infrastructure ...  

No Republicans voted for it in the House, and three moderate Republicans voted for it in the Senate (Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania). The bill combined tax breaks with spending on infrastructure ...  

No Republicans voted for it in the House, and three moderate Republicans voted for it in the Senate (Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania). The bill combined tax breaks with spending on infrastructure ...  

No Republicans voted for it in the House, and three moderate Republicans voted for it in the Senate (Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania). The bill combined tax breaks with spending on infrastructure ...  

No Republicans voted for it in the House, and three moderate Republicans voted for it in the Senate (Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania). The bill combined tax breaks with spending on infrastructure ...  

No Republicans voted for it in the House, and three moderate Republicans voted for it in the Senate (Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania). The bill combined tax breaks with spending on infrastructure ...  

No Republicans voted for it in the House, and three moderate Republicans voted for it in the Senate (Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania). The bill combined tax breaks with spending on infrastructure ...  

Arlen Specter, “been cannibalized.” So it looks as if it’s going to be a long and horrible presidential-election cycle this year. Let’s hope we all survive it. Bonnie Squires writes weekly for Main Line Media News and can be reached at ...  

Santorum was Pennsylvania’s junior senator when he endorsed moderate incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter over conservative Pat Toomey in the 2004 GOP primary. The pick fueled conservative discontent, contributing to Santorum’s defeat in his ...  

In case you thought for one second that all our politicians have class and look to set a good example, try this: a US Senator (Arlen Specter) writing about seeing [...]  

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), passed in December 2005. The Senate resolution, which was introduced by former Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), also Jewish, passed two months later.  

Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a rising conservative star, than with 60 Republicans like former Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), who joined Democrats in 2009 before losing reelection.