Specter is on TV live

The gist:

Republican partying is moving farther and farther to the right.

Voted for the stimulus to avoid a 1929 style depression.

Specter dissing the GOP primary electorate in Pennsylvania.

Painful decision.

Disappointed my colleagues. I've been disappointed by them too.

I can keep helping Pennsylvania.

Specter won't be an automatic 60th vote (gee you think). His position on EFCA proves this, he says. (Of course, it doesn't. It proves that Specter is still trying to split the baby in half - he supported EFCA before, he only opposed it to suck up to the GOP after they decided to oppose him in his primary. So why stick with his opposition to EFCA now, when his opposition was mean to woo the far right?)

Here we go. The real Arlen Specter comes out. He thinks both parties are equally in trouble. That's why, he says, Joe Lieberman lost his Democratic primary (no, he lost it because he was embracing George Bush and his agenda). But for Specter to suggest that the Democrats are having the same problem as the GOP, that people are deserting our party in droves, that our party is beholden to people like me - please. I wish.

Specter says the Republican party was pretty far to the right in 2004.

Oh dear God, he's wrapping himself in the Joe Lieberman flag again.