Few things in life give me as much joy as the schadenfreude of watching bad things happen to bad people. Like the train-wreck that Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA)  has made of his collapsing political career.

When he flipped parties last week, he thought he had made a deal with Sen. Harry Reid to retain all of his seniority, to include committee assignments.

If Specter had been paying attention to the habitual lies that flow from Reid’s pie-holes, he might have seen this coming:

The Senate dealt a blow tonight to Sen. Arlen Specter’s hold on seniority in several key committees, a week after the Pennsylvanian’s party switch placed Democrats on the precipice of a 60-seat majority.

In a unanimous voice vote, the Senate approved a resolution that added Specter to the Democratic side of the dais on the five committees on which he serves, an expected move that gives Democrats larger margins on key panels such as Judiciary and Appropriations.

But Democrats placed Specter in one of the two most junior slots on each of the five committees for the remainder of this Congress, which goes through December 2010. Democrats have suggested that they will consider revisiting Specter’s seniority claim at the committee level only after the midterm elections next year.

Greg at Rhymes with Right captures the blow perfectly with this simple headline: Punked

You know what’s going to be even more fun than this? Watching him lose the Democrat primary instead of losing the Republican primary that he was trying to avoid.