Posted on 11/08/2004 8:34:43 AM PST by Cedar
It's Monday morning and I've just now received a call about giving MORE MONEY to the Senate Committee. I told them NOT ONE MORE DIME until they stop Specter from chairing the Judiciary Committee.
NO MORE MONEY, FOLKS! Let's see them first take action on stopping Specter. Only AFTER they have selected another person for Chairmanship--then will I give my continued support.
Bump to the top.
Priority 1: Remove Specter from Judiciary (Day 6)
Urgent! Committee Assignments are being made THIS WEEK! There are spots on the Judiciary Committee to be assigned. Tell Sen. Frist and Sen Kyl we need Conservative members on the Judiciary and NO Arlen Specter!
Specter's in line for Chairman, but it can be Challenged! It has happened in the past. Moderate Lugar challenged the Great Jesse Helms for Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A Challenger will have to come forward with the GOP members of the Judicial Committee meet on November 17th! We need to find a member with the Courage to Challenge.
John Kyl is the man for the job! He is Arizona's best/only conservative senator in spite of what the MSM thinks.
Gives you some insight into what Kyl is thinking.
Look at post #42, I guess Kyl gave an interview on the subject.
Interesting.
Kyl would be great. Also Sessions....either one. Let's press on!
Wow. You are posting a dupe vanity of your own vanity from last night.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1274063/posts
It's not a duplicate--it's to inform people that the GOP Senate Committee is making calls today for MORE money.
Well, after the election we just had, after all the tax cuts, the approval to go to Iraq, the defeat of Daschle and all the other good things that have happened in the last four years I say we should keep donating. What would you rather have? Senate Majority Leader Reid, Judiciary Chair Kennedy?
Donate directly to candidates. The RNC is worthless.
"John Kyl is the man for the job!"
He would be a good choice, also Sen. Sessions.
Let's keep telling the GOP no more money if they support Specter.
Hold your friends close.
Hold your enemies closer.
No thanks.
Yep.
Specter is already feeling the heat.
I was really mad, but after hearing
Karl Rove, I am willing to let the WH
handle Arlen.
Thanks.
Specter cannot be trusted...amazing how many people here take up for RINO's? Maybe they fit the bill too.
Senator Specter has an Agenda — Liberal Judges
“President Bush ran forthrightly on a clear agenda for this nation’s future, and the nation responded by giving him a mandate.” – Remarks by Vice President Cheney introducing President Bush for his victory speech, Ronald Reagan Building, November 3, 2004.
President Bush’s margin of victory proves that we “have a narrowly divided country, and that’s not a traditional mandate…the number-one item on my agenda is to try to move the party to the center.” – Sen. Arlen Specter, November 3, 2004.
Senator Arlen Specter's shocking comments the day after President Bush's decisive re-election raise troubling concersn
Specter denied the legitimacy of President Bush’s historic mandate.
Specter announced a pro-abortion litmus test for the president’s judicial nominees. Specter claims that Roe v. Wade is “inviolate” and insists that “nobody can be confirmed today who does not agree with it.”
Specter’s illegal litmus test would disqualify all constitutionalist nominees from serving on the Supreme Court of the United States and the lower federal courts.
Specter’s illegal litmus test demands that all nominees violate the canons of judicial ethics by announcing or pledging how they will vote in a particular case.
Specter will not promise to support the President’s nominees. Instead, he merely “hopes” that he can support them. The day after the election, when a reporter asked Specter if he would support the president’s nominees, the senator hesitated and equivocated: “I am hopeful that I’ll be able to do that. That obviously depends upon the president’s judicial nominees. I’m hopeful that I can support them.”
Specter criticized President Bush’s first-term judicial nominees: “The nominees whom I supported in committee, I had reservations on.”
Specter insulted Janice Rogers Brown, president Bush’s nominee to the important U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Specter referred to Brown, a distinguished conservative and the first African American woman to serve on the California Supreme Court, as “the woman judge out of California” who he had reservations about.
Specter insulted the entire Supreme Court of the United States, including Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justices Scalia and Thomas. When a reporter asked Specter “Are you saying that there is not greatness” on the Supreme Court, Specter replied: “Yes. Can you take yes for an answer?”
Specter’s comments reveal that, like Sen. Kerry and Sen. Daschle, Specter favors judges who follow politics and popular opinion, not the Constitution and the rule of law.
Specter accused President Bush of ignoring the Senate’s advise and consent role: “The Constitution has a clause called advise and consent, the advise part is traditionally not paid a whole lot of attention to, I wouldn’t say quite ignored, but close to that.”
Specter wants to encroach upon the president’s appointment power. Obstructionist Democrats filibustered ten of President Bush’s appeals court nominees. Now Specter wants the Senate to become MORE involved in judicial appointments: “My hope is that the Senate will be more involved in expressing our views.”
Specter's record over the last 20 years demonstrated a pattern of very troubling conduct on Judiciary Committee issues
Specter fought against the distinguished Judge Robert H. Bork, betraying President Reagan and his fellow Republicans.
Specter voted against Judge Bork on the judiciary committee, and against Bork’s confirmation on the Senate floor. By joining liberal Democratic senators and radical left-wing groups in their opposition to Judge Bork, Specter gave those groups aid and comfort, and was instrumental in Judge Bork’s defeat.
Judge Bork warned Americans that Specter does not understand the Constitution and that Specter, along with Senate Democrats “professed horror at the thought that a judge must limit his rulings to the principles in the actual Constitution.”
President Ronald Reagan called the left-wing assault against Judge Bork “an unprecedented political attack” on a Supreme Court nominee and “a tragedy for our country.” Specter rebuffed President Reagan’s plea to support Judge Bork.
Specter helped defeat the nomination of conservative Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship.
Specter warned filibustered appeals court nominee William Pryor that just because he voted for him on the committee did not mean that he would vote on the Senate floor for his confirmation.
The “National Review” exposed Specter as “The Worst Republican Senator” in a prominent September 1, 2003 cover story. According to “National Review,” Specter “is not a team player…is an abortion rights absolutist, a dogged advocate of racial preferences, a bitter foe of tax reform, a firm friend of the International Criminal Court.”
Specter refuses to support the elevation of Justice Clarence Thomas to Chief Justice: “I’d have to think about that,” Specter equivocated. Ditto for Justice Antonin Scalia: “I’d have to think about that too.” Specter once slandered Justice Thomas as a “disappointment.”
The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee must be someone devoted to the Constitution as written and the rule of law
The situation is urgent. Chief Justice Rehnquist is gravely ill. A Supreme Court vacancy is imminent.
President Bush may be called upon to nominate a Supreme Court justice within the next several weeks.
Court watchers predict as many as three Supreme Court vacancies during President Bush’s second term.
President Bush will likely have a historic, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to return the Supreme Court to constitutionalist principles.
The President needs as chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee a loyal, reliable, conservative partner who will shepherd his nominees through the confirmation process.
Under intense political pressure, Specter tried to recant portions of his post-election statements the day after he uttered them. That means nothing. His 20-year record of party disloyalty and tormenting conservative nominees means everything.
As chairman, Specter will act as a vexatious intermeddler, second-guessing President Bush’s Supreme Court and lower court nominations. This imperils the President’s legacy.
Under the Senate’s seniority rules, Specter is slated to take over the Judiciary Committee, but under Senate rules and procedures, he can be stopped from becoming committee chairman.
The window of opportunity to stop Specter is limited. Once he becomes chairman, it will be impossible to unseat him.
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The important thing for you is not to get Conservatives on the Surpreme Court. The important thing for you is to deny Spector the chairmanship and in the process get all the RINOS to vote against every conservative justice Bush appoints. That is what Spector hoped to accomplish. You want to give it to him. To win we have to manipulate the RINOS not give them a reason to vote against our side. But people like you never think about winning. You only think about revenge. You think like a loser.
If Bush loses 5 RINOs the media with the help of the Democrats can drive down Bush's approval rating until he finally gives up and appoints liberal justices.
Spector no matter if you like it or not holds the keys to the combination that can get conservative justices approved. You want to fix it so there is no way he and his buddies will ever vote for our side.
Which is why it would be the ultimate delicious irony if he received the chairmanship instead.
Well, if all the RINO's vote against Bush's appointees then maybe they'll be shown the door like Daschle.
Specter could stay on the committee; he just shouldn't be chairman. Even if Grassley must give up Finance (which he apparently doesn't have the fortitude to do), this should be the solution--it is Grassley's place to be Chairman actually, he's the REAL one next in line, not Specter. The ONLY way that Specter can get the Chairman is if Grassley refuses it.
As for the RINOs, they already act like Democrats anyway. Who says they'll change now?
Compromising the right and just cause is the curse of Congress.
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