Likely new Senate judiciary chairman warns Bush against nominating anti-abortion judges

SFGate.com ^ | 11/03/04 | LARA JAKES JORDAN

[CrosscutSaw]

The Republican expected to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee next year bluntly warned newly re-elected President Bush on Wednesday against putting forth Supreme Court nominees who would seek to overturn abortion rights or are otherwise too conservative to win confirmation.

[Stellar Dendrite]

Hey idiot, it's a joke!!!

[Stellar Dendrite]

Whoops LOL, sorry wrong reply to wrong person in wrong thread!!!!!

[isom35]

why cant it be the other way around:
"Bush warns likely new Senate judiciary chairman against opposing anti-abortion judges". or maybe Frist will.

[wildbill]

Good idea. Put him on harbors subcommittee.

[Txsleuth]

Just saw Lanny Davis on O'Reilly and he is singing the talking points of dems today

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Bush NEEDS TO REACH OUT

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why do they think they can order the President around. He has a bigger and stronger mandate than any president in a llllllll0000000ng time, and HE doesn't have to worry about winning another election. I think they are dreaming if they think he is going to move LEFT -- they should be grateful if he doesn't run farther right!!!!

[mrsmith]

"I feel the need to point out that the reporter who wrote this article is the wife of Jim Jordan, former campaign manager for one JOHN FORBES KERRY and the guy who ran the Media Fund, a pro-Kerry 527 that was responsible for the most obsecenely false anti-Bush ads of the campaign. Little Lara has quite a knack for spitting out articles that get Pennsylvania Republicans into trouble.

I'm not saying Specter's not a RINO, but you can be sure that Lara crafted her story in order to portray Specter in the most controversial light possible."

Thank you for the best post on the thread!

[TC Rider]

This is no surprise. Conservatives saw this coming during the Senate primaries in PA. Spector is in his last term and has no loyalty to the party. Think of a Zell Miller on their side.

[Nov3]

He is the worst kind of scum. He represents the worst of the old time northeastern "Repubicans" that allowed the southern democrats (like Zell Miller) to rule the south through the early 70's.

[TomasUSMC]

We now have 55 senators and it only takes 51 to change the rules of filibuster. We just get rid of the filibuster rule.

[NATIVEDAUGHTER]

See?...What did I tell you?...If the GOP twarts efforts to overturn Roe, I want to see social conservatives turn out in droves to vote for Constitution Party candidates 2 and 4 years from now...conservatives have put up with an unconservative President because of the hope that he might do something on the Court...If they don't get something more than crumbs from the table...It will be time to kiss the GOP goodbye...something I already have done...

[CyberAnt]

How did Spector get to be head of the judiciary ..??

And .. after Bush rescued him from certain destruction .. how DISLOYAL and DISRESPECTFUL of him to TELL President Bush what he can and cannot do.

Maybe Spector needs to have a little heart-to-heart with the President.

[rwfromkansas]

Oh come on...do you honestly think he acts like that behind the scenes?

[inquest]

The senator is mistaken if he thinks this president will be tempering his values for political expediency.

BWAHAHAAA!

Don't forget now, Bush promised right after the election that he'd be a "uniter, not a divider".

It's not like Bush didn't know when he was supporting Specter's reelection bid in the primaries that Specter would be pulling this nonsense now. Anyone could have predicted it.

[NATIVEDAUGHTER]

See?...What did I tell you?...If the GOP twarts efforts to overturn Roe, I want to see social conservatives turn out in droves to vote for Constitution Party candidates 2 and 4 years from now...conservatives have put up with an unconservative President because of the hope that he might do something on the Court...If they don't get something more than crumbs from the table...It will be time to kiss the GOP goodbye...something I already have done...

[Radix]

"So what exactly is your explanation for why Hitler actively supported universal education?"

More from Hitler's classic.

When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."

[inquest]

It was mild sarcasm. The underlying point remains, however, that there simply isn't much Bush can do to Specter now. Specter isn't up for reelection until Bush is out of office. And most of the GOP leadership, if a cursory examination of the rising stars in the GOP is any indication (Romney, Schwarzenegger, Pataki), has more in common with Specter's views than with those of the Heritage Foundation.

[rwfromkansas]

Looking back at articles, prior to the election, it appeared the GOP temporarily gave up the fight until the election, and they will fight for a rules change (which requires 2/3 according to some, a majority according to others), his other bill that makes sense.....give them one day of fillibuster, but after that, the number of votes needed to pass a bill drops until it is a bare majority. I like this bill.

But, they also have the nuclear option, which they may have to go to, which would involve the VP issuing a ruling from the chair that judicial nominees could not be fillibustered. It would need to be upheld by a bare majority.

Now.....could we even get the bare majority. I don't know. We would come close, but Specter, Chafee, Snowe....they at least would vote against it. Hopefully we would gain at least one Democrat, though I don't know who the heck it would be.

[Nevermore]

If Bush and the rest of the party leadership doesn't want to lose ground then they had better see to it that Spector is kept at bay. Spector is no more Republican than Jeffords. I don't know what was going through Dubya's mind when he backed that JERK

[Scales]

You don't think President Bush would have had a easier time in re-election had he stayed out of Iraq? I call that a commitment to his values. He could have kept his mouth shut on partial birth abortion and homosexual marriage. He did not. He pushed forward and was bold on these issues. I really do not see him compromising on issues such as the IRS code, Social Security reform, permanent tax relief and strict constructionist judges.

[rwfromkansas]

I must wonder why it always is the President that must reach out as well. Why the heck don't the Dems have to? Pure hypocrisy on their part.