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The Defection of Arlen Specter

Turnabout's fair play, isn't it?

Calvin Trillin

May 6, 2009

Voilà, a GOP defector! He’s unbeloved Arlen Specter– As kindly as a rent collector Or Hannibal, the hungry Lecter. (Remember when we watched him hector Anita Hill, so he’d deflect her From Thomas sniffing her as nectar?) The Dems say, “Welcome to our sector. Obama now is your protector.” A vote’s a vote.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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