well said! This is what I thought the party leadership should do all along. Now we have a vote for the nominees and such that we didn't have before, because Specter will be too scared to vote against them. After all, not giving him the Chair might have made him go the Jeffords route, and no one wants that.
You are, of course, assuming that he wasn't lying to you. After all, he made a commitment to his local paper that he wouldn't support "extreme" nominees.
So, take your pick. Who was he lying to? The GOP, whom he disagrees with, or the newspaper, whom he agrees with?