Mea culpa, guys!

:-)

-CW

But Reid apparently didn't count on the pushback from within his own caucus. Because on Tuesday night, the Senate voted to strip Reid of all his seniority, leaving him as the freshest of freshman Democrats in the Senate (he'll be second from the bottom when Al Franken is seated).

I think ya meant SPECTER will be stripped of his seniority, no? :D

but also for Reid as well (who, throughout the entire episode, looked weak and out of control of his own party's caucus).

What a SHOCK!! /sarcasm.... :D

@Osborne

I don't know, Chris — the Specter story makes me wonder if its becoming impossible to be a moderate in either party, anymore.

Ya see, we DO agree on somethings! :D

Michale....

I think the Specter story just goes to show that very few people in the blogosphere and in Washington and in the media have any kind of a sense of humor, dry, self-deprecating, or otherwise. It has definitely become impossible for these people to laugh - at themselves or each other - without someone else taking them seriously.

Frankly, I'd like to know how they make it through their day!

And, as for the Norm Coleman thing...I’m thinking that had to be one of three things...Senator Specter’s very dry sense of humor (and we all know the media wouldn’t get anything like that); a (Freudian?) slip of the tongue; a momentary episode of confusion - the poor guy just switched parties, for crying out loud!

Because it just doesn’t make any sense that Senator Specter would say such a thing about Norm Coleman, given where that situation stands. I mean Arlen Specter is not stupid. The media, on the other hand, is not exactly endowed with common sense. If the reporter interviewing Specter had any common sense at all he would have questioned that comment by asking if the Senator really thought that COLEMAN should be seated and not the other guy who seems to be winning all the court battles.

It will be very interesting to see how Pennsylvania voters sort it out.