Specter To Switch Parties - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
This is unbelievably huge for health care reform given the recent nuclear option Obama was talking about earlier this week to avoid a filibuster when the HC bill comes up later this spring. Granted, it strikes me he did this partially to preserve his senate seat given he was losing to his opposition in the Republican primaries... but Specter has gotten much more moderate in recent years, and there really isn't space for moderate Republicans (see prev. post on Sebelius). His support on expanding NIH funding was critical. I'm thrilled for the short term debate on health care, but for the sake of the long term, I do hope the Republican party gets its act together and can put up a sensible opposition so we can have a healthy debate of a spectrum of ideas.
Just noted that kedar talked about this on his post also
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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