In the speech that catapulted Barack Obama to fame in 2004, the young Democrat said, “There is not a liberal America or a conservative America. There is a United States of America.” Five years later, the same man will face his biggest test to prove it: the nomination of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Since [...]
Congressional Democratic leaders said Wednesday that Sen. Arlen Specter’s party switch is a sign that Republicans should become more like, well, Democrats.
“I say to Republicans in America, take back your party,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters. “The party of protecting the environment, the party of individual rights, the party of fairness.”
Specter stunned the [...]
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is a Democrat again following a decades-long run with the Republicans, a defection that has the GOP warning about the perils of unchecked power only a few years after it controlled both the White House and Congress. The move leaves Democrats with 59 votes in the Senate, and has them hoping [...]
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