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I laid out Arlen Specter’s coming betrayal on card-check in May.
Today, Benedict Arlen just made it official:
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter took another step in his political transformation on Tuesday, telling hundreds of labor activists that he will support legislation that would make it easier to form unions.
In a speech at the AFL-CIO convention, Specter also [...]

Well, he didn’t say exactly that. But he might as well have. The SEIU has organized a front group of “people of faith” to harangue Congress into passing card-check because it’s a “moral imperative.” Where are all the church/state separation zealots now? Details of the Big Labor hosannas in the highest, via the SEIU website:
Yesterday, [...]

A reader forwards a DNC solicitation sent out this morning in Bozo the VP’s name:
Three weeks ago, my friend Senator Arlen Specter added one more feat to his long and impressive career — he became a Democrat.
Over the years, we’ve certainly had our disagreements. During that time, however, Arlen has been my friend, my confidant, [...]

I know. It’s a shocker. The crapweasels at CAIR act like…crapweasels. And Arlen Specter still smells like one.
Via Philip Klein at the American Spectator:
Sen. Arlen Specter backed out of speaking at a Tuesday conference on the global effort to silence speech critical of Islam, citing a scheduling conflict, but the Council on American-Islamic Relations [...]

Back on March 24, Arlen Specter announced his opposition to Big Labor’s card-check legislation, the “Employee Free Choice Act.” Some conservatives cheered. But as I noted at the time, Specter left the door wide open in his Senate floor statement: “I would be willing to reconsider Employees’ Free Choice legislation when the economy returns to [...]

Dirty.

Arlen Specter’s campaign finance travesty deserves more than just mockery. It deserves action. Here are screenshots of his misleading “Specter for the Cure” website, which is a slimy front to raise campaign funds:

And the fine print buried at the bottom of the home page:

Here is how you file an FEC complaint.
Here are the FEC rules [...]