As if the situation with Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) couldn’t be a bigger mess, he is now disputing Harry Reid’s contention that he’ll be a solid procedural vote for the Democrats.
Yesterday, you’ll recall, Reid said on MSNBC yesterday, “on procedural votes he’ll be with us all the time.”
Well, Fox News caught up with Specter today and asked him about that: “Specter merely smiled and repeated several times, ‘I’m going to have to talk to Sen. Reid about that.'”
Reid told Fox in response: “I have talked since Monday night of last week on Specter. I’m not going to talk any more about it. I have explained and re-explained and the re-explaining is over with.”
And Reid’s spokesman Jim Manley said Reid was being “hopeful and optimistic” about Specter’s vote, and reiterated what he told me yesterday about this: “Sen. Reid never takes any votes for granted.”
Oh, brother.
(Via Think Progress.)
