What's next for Snarlin' Arlen?

“This is not a guy that is going to take his last several months in the body and coast,” said Norm Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. “He’s going to live it to the fullest.”…

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“Certainly you’re going to see Specter throw himself into the nomination confirmation hearings for Kagan and other significant confirmation battles if there are any,” Ornstein said…

And don’t expect Specter to go rogue against his party, Abramowitz added.

“I wouldn’t expect to see his voting record to change at this point,” he said. “Having switched parties, I would expect him to continue pretty much voting with most of the Democrats in the Senate for the rest of the time that he’s there.”

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