In what will certainly be the biggest political story to cap off the first 100 days of the Obama administration, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) has announced he will be switching parties. Once Al Franken is seated in Minnesota, an inevitability expected to happen shortly, the Democratic party will have a 60 seat, filibuster-proof majority.
Specter was one of three Republicans in Congress to vote for President Obama's stimulus package, an issue that caused a split with his party that Specter described...
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