Specter blurts out the truth:
"When I came back to the cloak room after coming to the agreement a week ago today, one of my colleagues said, ‘Arlen, I’m proud of you.’ My Republican colleague said, ‘Arlen, I’m proud of you.’ I said, ‘Are you going to vote with me?’ And he said, ‘No, I might have a primary.’ And I said, ‘Well, you know very well I’m going to have a primary.’ … I think there are a lot of people in the Republican caucus who are glad to see this action taken without their fingerprints, without their participation."
As I said, the proper response to the GOP’s gamesmanship in a downturn as severe as this one is: contempt.
The Dish 