I hope you are right. Somehow, I just can't believe Specter has turned over a new leaf, even with the trip to the woodshed, if that indeed happened. The guy's a loose cannon. Always has been.
Well, he's pro-abortion and probably always will be. But the point is he won't carry this principle into judicial selection. Bush and the base won't stand for it.
I agree. Specter has spent years making a "name" for himself as a "maverick", an "independent", and "one unafraid to buck the leadership" based on his "principled stands"...
[side note: that's MSM-ese for "obstructionist in a liberal direction"... had this been an identical obstruction in a conservative direction, the common MSM terms would have been something more like "stubborn, inflexible, right-wing, elitist, lone-wolf, etc."]
Given that he would be even harder to GET out of the chairmanship than to KEEP out, and given that I (at least) see NO pressure, whatsoever, that could be brought to bear on a "Chairman Specter", especially by some of the fortitude-deprived GOP leadership, it seems insane for the caucus to hand him the Chairmanship!
(Wow... I've had two rants in one day! Is this good, or bad? :) )