Posted on 01/22/2005 12:03:07 PM PST by Mikmur
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter went back on his word to Republican caucus members and conservative groups alike when he recently hired Hannibal G. Williams II Kemerer, who until recently was the NAACP's assistant general counsel. Specter hired Kemerer against the wishes of his senior Judiciary Committee staff. "We warned him this was going to cause trouble, but Specter said it was his committee, we are his staff, and he's going to do what he believes is right," says a Judiciary Committee staffer.
Kemerer was a protégé of Elaine Jones, who three years ago, as head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, lobbied Sen. Ted Kennedy to delay confirmation of many of President Bush's judicial nominees to a federal circuit court where her group had pending litigation. When Jones and Kennedy's deal was revealed, she was forced to resign.
Specter hired Kemerer to deal specifically with the nominations and vetting of federal judicial nominees, a position many conservatives were led to believe by Specter would go, at the very least, to a Republican, and most likely to a conservative.
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PA voters had the chance to stop him last year when Toomey ran a great campaign against him. How many RINO FReepers are responsible for this?
This ties into Memogate!!!!
Manny loses his job and the obstructionists get one of their own hired.
I fault the pubs for electing him to this important post after all the warning signs and emails they got from us!! Stupid idiots!! When will they learn....arghhhh!!
I read on Michelle Malkin's web site that Spector has also appointed Cornyn to oversee immigration issues (with a link to our own Sabertooth's web site).
OK, so let the battle begin! What do we do? Got links to flood him with e-mails, or phone calls?
Hey, I voted against the "gentleman". Apparrently PA isn't quite ready to be a red state. Soon, perhaps.
Curious that the hateful and 'want blood' comments are all being made by unnamed party operatives and unelected and unnamed staffers.
Who elected them? Nobody.
I want them to pull the sheet off there heads and identify themselves when they talk about judicial nominees. I don't care what party they are in or how entitled they feel they are.
We must first attack those weak Senators up for reelection in 2006 and convince them that their liberal, neocommunist positions WILL be held against them. This comming week, I will draft and send a message to Frist informing him that I am holding him responsible for the appointment of this 5th columnist and that, when he stands for reelection in 2006, I will not only not support him, but will back whoever runs against him in the primary AND whoever runs against him in the election. If a dem wins, then we have a person who makes it clear he opposes Bush and not one who stabs the country in the back at every chance.
We must force Frist to lead; to act as though he is on our side. My message won't do it alone, but a 1000 or 5000 might. I've sent checks to ut of state Senatorial candidates before so I'm on the lists. I'll send nothing to Frist and work to have him join Tommie the Commie as a Senate leader who lost.
Well, we didn't see THAT one coming. </sarcasm> Can this traitor be removed before the REAL damage is done??? Senator Frist had better find his spine jacket and start the nuclear option ball rolling. Beginning with Spectre. This is an outrage.
you're right
They will never learn. That is why they need to be voted out and some new CONSERVATIVE blood voted in.
The Senate Republicans are wimps, plain and simple. I have posted this many times over the years. They have no backbone, no guts, will not do what is right if it may jeopardize their seat. They are in the Senate for themselves, for the power and the glory, NOT for their constituents.
I have also said many times that Republicans only have themselves to fear. Well, their wimpy backing down to Spectre will have serious repurcussions. This is only the beginning of the crap this RINO will be pulling. The saddest thing is: He will get away with it because the girlie men Pubbies will let him.
Clarify and specify what you are saying. Examples?
Well, shouldn't this say something about the Republican Party itself? Their leadership is not committed to principle, & it allows RINOs like Specter to win Chairmanship of such an important Committee even after all of the crying & gnashing of teeth made by their conservative base, yet to no avail. True conservatives are few & far between in the GOP, & their #'s are decreasing.
Ccase in point: remember when RINO Sen. John McCain said "Thank God & Greyhound he's gone" when Pat Buchanan left the Party? This is just one instance out of many where the GOP Establishment has subtly (or in McCain's case, not so subtly) said:
CONSERVATIVES & DEFENDERS OF THE CONSTITUTION NEED NOT APPLY
Look at the stop-Spector threads on FreeRepublic and see dozens of posts to take it easy, back off, support Republicans etc. The latest move is the cost of those suggestions. The RINOs can do what they want with their lives, but I don't want RINOs running the government from inside the Senate and the House.
Everyone needs to wrte their respective Senators asap, Put a plug in this AHOLE.
He promised and then he smugly flips us off.
I wish we could get rid of Politicians as quickly and efficeiently as the Navy can Reassign "Good hard working dedicated Naval Officers"
Spector is a sore on Clintons bent@^&^%$$ and needs to be (not gonna get banned, not gonna happen, it wouldn't be prudent)
Every fool who helped put Spector in this position, knew what he was in advance and abetted him anyway.
A majority of us here predicted what he would do, but no one would listen.
I agree w/ you that Frist is part of the problem, but only a tiny part, IMO. I'd say the biggest part of the problem is w/ US--we elected these RINOs into office, didn't we? The Pennsylvania Republicans had an excellent chance to remove a RINO from their ranks during last yr's Primary, yet they blew it. Lemme say it again: THEY BLEW IT!!!!
Will we ever learn from this? Will we make up for it by the time the 2006 elections come around? While I'm thrilled that Dr. TOM COBURN was elected to the Senate (way to go, Okies!), he is only 1 out of 100 Senators, & 1 out of 55 Republicans...& probably the ONLY Senator w/ any kind of conservative backbone in that Body. We'll see as events unfold.
No kiddin. Too bad Frist & Co wouldn't listen.
Mr. Specters email:
arlen_specter@specter.senate.gov
I stood four square against Spector from the beginning. Dr. Frist may be a hell of a Doctor , but he aint squat as Republican leader. What was he thinking when he allowed this to happen. Spector whined and cried and the Republicans caved in to his crawling, He knew once he was in he could do anything he wanted, and now he has. A two faced sack of crap is what he is and those who let him get away with it are fools.
Link to all senators.
http://www.senate.gov/
I knew this was gonna happen, & I may have even said so in some of those pre-primary/election threads. But folks seem to be more concerned about electing Rpublicans more than they do CONSERVATIVES. One lady even told me that she would vote for liberals like Arnold or Guliani instead of a fairly conservative Zell Miller simply due to the fact that Miller's not a Republican! I guess that if Hillary shitched Parties & joined the GOP, then she'd vote for Hillary, too.
In other words, PARTY IS EVERYTHING, & principle is nothing.
W has NO ONE but himself(and maybe Karl Rove) to thank for getting this turd back into the US Senate.
Feminists (the numbers behind Specter, other fake Republicans in the Senate, and behind most homosexual activism) will lie to us. They have been a disruptive and dishonest influence in the Republican Party for nearly 150 years. Republicans in the Senate voted to pass at least two very unconstitutional and anti-family bills during the 1990s to please them.
When you vote them out of office. We in PA tried but we were chastised and laughed at and called all kinds of names.
Not when "Red Staters" (Santorum and Bush) tried to keep Specter in.
Most people here knew this was going to happen. How come all those bright bulbs in the Senate and Adminsitration didn't?
I strongly agree.
He's a huge python in the grass. He's a slimey tool of the puppet master globalists.
He's a treasonous idiot stoolie of tyranny looming on the horizon.
Besides that, I don't like him one teensy ieeeensy little bit.
We here in PA TRIED but our PRINCIPLED Senator and POTUS stumped for him here during the primary. We would have thrown them out had they stayed away and let us elect a principled conservative. The votes were that close.
Your analysis is on the money. I frankly think the country would, in the long run, be better off defeating republicans and replacing them with conservatives. It would hurt in the short term, but what I see now is a slower version of democrat expansion of government. Of course, you're not allowed to think like that around here--let the flames resume.
The freakin' chicken isn't "coming home to roost"...it NEVER LEFT!
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As many as voted for our Governor out here in CA I'm sure.
I'm with you, father.
someone should tell him his actions go against Scottish law.
And as many as voted for Specter here in PA.
Now there's a shock. /sarcasm
Hopefully we will stop him. This is an outrage. I was at the ATR Wednesday morning meeting when Specter's chief of staff promised that Specter would hire CONSERVATIVES to work on the Judiciary Committee staff. Apparently, Specter made that promise directly to Frist and other Republican leaders.
It amazes me that Specter takes an action like this (and like insisting that all of the filibustered nominees must go through hearings again) so soon after he had to beg to keep the Judiciary chair.
I don't know the procedures necessary for removing Specter as Chair of the committee, but those procedures should be started immediately. That does not necessarily mean that we actually remove Specter, but get the process rolling. That way, it can always be held over his head.
How do you get back and an elderly man who probably won't have to face the voters again? We need to find something that is politically and emotionally significant to him, and apply pressure. Make life painful for him if he keeps making life painful for us.
Specter must suffer from narcissistic personality disorder. He apparently does not recognize that his actions have consequences. Well, he must be pulled into line, HARD. If he wants to pull a "Jeffords" and switch parties, then Frist should give him a hard kick in the ass out the door.
Indeed, we should treat any threat by Specter to change parties as the deed itself. If he makes the threat, end dicussions and the procedures taken to have him removed from the Republican caucus.
I still say a chance was blown...w/ ALL DUE RESPECT, I'd like to say that the support that Specter got from the President & Senator Santorum shouldn't have had an effect had you stuck to your guns.
Were you talking about Santorum when you used the word "principled"? From what I can tell, I'm not so sure if that word would suffice here--after all, he is one of the top GOP Senate leaders, isn't he? I think his support for Specter was more due to his being the states' junior Senator, his high Senate position, & his not wanting to get on the senior Senator's sh*t list via endoring an opponent. In other words, it may have been selfish political interests rather than principle.
Thanx for trying, tho...it's sad that there weren't enuff of Toomey supporters to stem the tide against this RINO.
HE'S in trouble? I'm sure he's the one who isnt worrying. We're the ones in trouble.
Frist is not running for re-election.
It looks to me like the GOP Establishment is nothing but RINOs. What are y'all gonna do about it, if anything?
Isn't it time for the GOP to begin a MAJOR house-cleaning? Bring plenty of air freshener, pooper scoopers, & gloves, 'cuz RINOs leave big piles...if you know what I mean.
There are OTHER political parties to get involved w/: the Constitution Party, Independent American, Libertarian, American, etc. IF we insist on belonging to some political party, then methinks it's time for true conservatives to start looking elsewhere...'cuz real conservatism is not welcome in the GOP anymore.
I've been saying this for months, & the actions of the GOP leadership continue to prove it time & time again...yet you would think that I'm talking to a brick wall. (AM I???)
I miss reading Sabertooth's posts. Apparently he has been banned, for what I have no idea...
Would you mind posting a link to his website?
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