Specter Joins Party of Satan — Freepers Hope He Comes Down with Swine Flu

By Sniffles

Wow! We cats were all ready to settle down for our early-afternoon nap when the word came across the wires that Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania is switching parties.

So we guess that 10 years after his "not proven" vote against Bill Clinton's impeachment, Senator Specter's responsible support of the economic stimulus has so infuriated the nuts on the Republican right that they've driven him clean out of the GOP.

Our only comment — besides the fact that it's not nice to wish swine flu on anyone — is that we hope this gives Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe some food for thought.

Meanwhile, add Senator-elect Al Franken and we have a filbuster-proof majority! We cats PURR.

UPDATE: Somebody who calls himself "Right of Right Wing" over at Free Republic needs to check his Senate roster. "I say we clean house," he harumphs over the Specter news. "Take McCain, Snowe, S. Collins, G. Smith (Ore.) [sic], Lugar."