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Newly minted and demoted Democrat, Arlen Specter, is again showing what lengths he will go to in order to remain a career politician.

Sen. Arlen Specter says the “prospects are pretty good” for a compromise on legislation making it easier for workers to form union.

Specter had come out against the bill in March, disappointing labor leaders. They had hoped he would be the crucial 60th vote needed to overcome an expected GOP filibuster of the Employee Free Choice Act.

But Specter has since switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party, and he said Thursday that he’s been meeting with labor leaders and fellow senators in hopes of coming up with a compromise he could support.

Get used to making more of those compromises, Specter… you have a long way to go before you earn one Democrat vote.

Tuesday night, the Senate passed a resolution making recent party hopper Arlen Specter the most junior Democrat on four of the five committeees on which he serves and serves him right.

In a statement Wednesday, Senator Specter said he wasn’t surprised that the issue of subcommittee chairmanships would not be decided until the 2010 election.

“Senator Reid assured me that I would keep my committee assignments and that I would have the same seniority as if I had been elected as a Democrat in 1980,” he said. But he added, confirming grumblings from within the Democratic caucus: “Some members of the caucus have raised concerns about my seniority, so the caucus will vote on my seniority at the same time subcommittee chairmanships are confirmed after the 2010 election.”

He also said, “I am confident my seniority will be maintained under the arrangement I worked out with Senator Reid.”

Enjoy your new party Arlen.