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  You Can Count on Specter!

  Tuesday, April 28, 2009

  They Have a Sense of Humor:  

  "Senator Specter Increases Number of Democrats Opposing 'Forced' Choice Act"-- from the anti-"card check" Workforce Fairness Institute.  

  Meanwhile, Jennifer Rubin, giving advice to her enemies, thinks Big Labor would be crazy not to primary Specter. Is she being Machiavellian--i.e. if they run someone against him, he'll be annoyed and won't flip to endorse some form of "card check" as Peter Kirsanow fears? ... P.S.: Her commenters think she doesn't know Pennsylvania politics. ... Ambinder is ambivalent. ... P.P.S.: My guess is that there still aren't enough votes for a bill that includes a) a way for unions to avoid secret elections and b) mandatory arbitration--Specter has already given cover for moderate Dems to voice their doubts about those provisions. But who knows about a rewritten "compromise" bill?  And I have been wrong before. ... 6:26 P.M.

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  Gays in the military, Dems, GOPs reach foreign policy consensus, Meghan McCain "limiting herself to tweeting about visiting Girl Scout troops," no mention of immigration:  Walter Shapiro makes McCain's "First 100 days" seem much better than they actually would have been. ... 6:24 P.M.

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  Filed under: card check, MCCAIN

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• Mickey Kaus is the author of The End of Equality.

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