Specter flip-flop: He now supports Card Check

From Pat Toomey's Hypocrisy Alert site comes news that Sen. Arlen Specter has again changed his mind on the controversial Card Check bill before the Senate and he will now support the bill.

From the Toomey camp:

Five months after telling Pennsylvanians that he would oppose the Employee Free Choice Act and would vote against cloture, Senator Specter announced today at the Netroots Nation conference that he will join his new Democratic colleagues in voting to cut off debate on the Card Check legislation.

Then

Specter: The problems of the recession make this a particularly bad time to enact Employees Free Choice legislation. Employers understandably complain that adding a burden would result in further job losses. (March 24, 2009)

Now

Q: In stitching these together then, is it fair to say that on the climate legislation, on Employee Free Choice, on a public option health care plan, these are all areas where you would be voting with the majority for cloture to have these up and down votes?

Specter: Yes, no doubt about those three issues at all. (August 14, 2009, Netroots Nation)

"Senator Specter is quick to abandon his promises for the sake of scoring political points," said U.S. Senate candidate Pat Toomey. "As a result, Arlen Specter will not only break his word to Pennsylvanians, he will help pass legislation that will deny workers their right to a secret ballot election in the union organization process and give government officials the power to force decisions on Pennsylvania’s businesses."

“Pennsylvanians are finding it increasingly difficult to trust Senator Specter and for good reason. His position on Card Check and so many other issues has flipped back and forth so many times, it is abundantly clear that politics—not principle—is Arlen Specter’s guiding light."