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Specter and the Economy

Tex

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Specter says nation on 'brink of a depression'

The Associated Press
Monday, March 9, 2009; 5:02 PM

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The nation is on the "brink of a depression," but there's a "reasonable chance" that the $787 billion economic stimulus package will help ease the situation, Sen. Arlen Specter said Monday.

Specter, R-Pa., said the nation's economic situation is more dire than the public has been told, but did not elaborate.

"Our economic problems are enormously serious _ more serious than is publicly disclosed. And I think we're on the brink of a depression," he told reporters at the state Capitol.

Specter cast one of only three Republican votes for the stimulus package that President Barack Obama signed last month, drawing flak from members of his party, particularly conservatives.

He reiterated Monday that he felt passage of the legislation was more important than protecting his Senate seat.

"Had there been no stimulus, I think we'd have gone right off the edge," he said. "I think we're pretty close to the edge anyway, to be very brutally blunt about it."

Earlier this month, former Pennsylvania congressman Pat Toomey, a conservative who nearly defeated Specter in the 2004 GOP primary, announced that he is considering taking on Specter again in the 2010 primary. Toomey is currently president of the anti-tax Club for Growth in Washington.

Specter for some time has been helping stack the judicial branch with business cronies who use their office to benefit campaign contributors to politicians. He has been selling his responsibilities to our democracy to the highest bidder as he chaired the judicial committee in the Senate. He is trying to stay in office by being the RHINO some are calling him. The damage he has done to the judicial system in this country is huge.
 
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Anonymous

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Old Specters caught between a rock and a hard spot...He has to act enough Republican to win the primary- but his only chance of winning the general election is to get a lot of Democrat support since Pennsylvania has so many working class folks and has gone Democrat....
 
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