Arlen Specter

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...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 [...]  

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.  

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 ...  

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.  

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 ...  

"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 ...  

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.  

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 ...