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“He’s got to earn a spot on the team in the big league,” said Reid. “Arlen’s got talent, but it wouldn’t be fair to our starters to bump one of them before he’s proven his ability to play our game.”
A spokesman for Specter said the former Republican “has spent 29 years in the Senate working to get his big break”, and he challenged Reid to “just look at the stats. He’s paid his dues.”
Reid wouldn’t say which Democrat farm team would get Specter, but leading contenders include MoveOn.org, Code Pink, The Huffington Post, MSNBC, The New York Times, or one of many academic institutions.
“Of course, some of our best and brightest came up through the Cuban farm system,” said Reid, “If you learn the Castro playbook, then you’ve got what it takes to run with big boys here in the Senate Democrat caucus. With that kind of training, Arlen would be able to write his own committee assignments.”
Specter said he’s hopeful that his Democrat colleagues will soon see his value to the team, but he understands that it takes time to build trust.
“If I might use a coarse analogy,” Specter said, “If you marry a man who cheated on his wife, then dumped her for you, you’ll always wonder what really keeps him so late at the office.”
Washington Examiner columnist Scott Ott is editor-in-chief of ScrappleFace.com
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