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Bachmann, Rep. Michele •interesting coincidence is noted by - "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat President, Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence" - though interestingness of it is significantly mitigated by the inconvenient fact that the '70s swine flu outbreak occurred under Republican President Gerald Ford...
Specter, Sen. Arlen •blatant opportunism of is portrayed as somehow principled, and much is made of fabulous new Democratic advantage when in fact absolutely nothing has changed regarding votes of and, if anything, the chance for a real Democrat to win the seat of has now been eliminated - brilliant strategy, Biden and Reid...
...package, Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson tried to cut the tension. He turned to the three Republicans in the room and said, "If only you'd consider switching sides, then we'd all be on the same team and this would be a lot easier." Looking back on that moment, Democrat Nelson recalls something that seems far more telling now than it did at the time: Arlen Specter was the only one of them who didn't laugh...
Maybe the Pennsylvania Senator knew he was bound to wind up on the other side of the aisle eventually. Democrats - including Vice President Joe Biden, with whom he had shared many a ride on Amtrak when they were both commuting Senators - had been wooing him for years. Specter, 79, had been a Democrat until 1965. But when his latest turnabout finally happened, it caught the entire capital by surprise and altered everyone's calculation of what is now possible. Assuming that the interminable Minnesota recount battle finally ends with Al Franken being awarded the Senate seat - he holds...
...Carter's era, the Democratic caucus was riven by ideological differences and too disdainful of the President to work with him effectively. Senate associate historian Donald Ritchie says you have to go all the way back to the dawn of F.D.R.'s second term in 1937 to find a President aligned with a filibuster-proof Senate majority that has comparable cohesion and potential to pass significant legislation. "Doing the filibuster at every whim to block us is not [an option], and that makes legislating a lot easier," says New York Democrat Charles Schumer. (See a day-by-day look...