A Genteel Senatorial Smackdown

It’s been fun watching Arlen Specter race toward the left to avoid getting outflanked by Joe Sestak in next year’s primary, but on health care reform, at least, Specter has had much less ground to cover because he was pretty far to the left of his party even before his party-switch. Still, it was pretty rich to see Specter giving Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins a very public lesson on the public option during a joint press conference today.