Finally, a reaction from Senate Minority Leader McConnell on Arlen Specter's switch to the Democratic Party:
Senate Republican leaders are pushing back hard against the notion that their party is to blame for Arlen Specter’s defection to the Democrats.
"This is not a national story. It is a Pennsylvania story," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters in a news conference following Tuesday’s GOP policy luncheon. [...]
McConnell said Specter told him of his decision late Monday, and that Specter had said he decided to make the switch because he couldn't win reelection as a Republican or an Independent.
McConnell acknowledged that the GOP was now at the mercy of Democrats, who will have a 60-vote majority if Al Franken is seated from Minnesota.
That's when, not if, Mitch.