Posted on 11/03/2004 3:10:39 PM PST by 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.
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Well said. That needs to be a priority. Someone needs to take Specter aside, tell him that we graciously allowed him to remain here, but he won't be in the Judiciary Committee this time. You don't have to be "mean," but you can't dilute your core principles to the point where you can't accomplish anything, either. That's why the 1994 Republican Revolution eventually fizzled. Don't let it happen this time!
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT OF 2004 -- (Senate - March 25, 2004)[Page: S3167
Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I support enhanced penalties for criminal acts of violence against pregnant women.
My concern with the DeWine bill is that it unnecessarily seeks to weigh in on the abortion controversy with the definition of ``unborn child'' and ``child in utero.''
I voted for the Feinstein amendment because it accomplishes the substantive criminal law objectives of the DeWine bill without raising a potential issue on a possible challenge to Roe v. Wade.
When the Feinstein Amendment lost, I voted for final passage of the DeWine Bill in order to impose appropriate double sanctions for the murder or assault of a pregnant woman that interferes with a pregnancy.
call your Senators and tell them to take Specter off the committee.
already called my senators.
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Yes. And the irony is without Bush, he would have been massacred in the primary. F***ing ingrate.
Why does everyone assume that Sen. Spector is telling the President that he, Senator Spector, is going to block certain appointees? It seems to me that what he is saying is that the Senate as a whole is not going to approve appointees that it views as extremist; at least, as defined by the phone calls, letters, and faxes that it gets from it's constituents, especially those Senators up for re-election in the mid-terms. And that he should consider not only the views of those he would nominate, but what the likelihood is of those nominees actually getting confirmed.
I'm old enough to remember when that was the case in the past. People who had the time, money and will to avail themselves of said airport and a willing physician did so. Those who lacked the first two faced a problem that far more often than in the first case ended up with a dead woman, along with the death of what she was carrying. The pictures of those dead women was a big factor in leading to the Roe vs. Wade decision in the first place.
The GOP is reluctant to get rid of the filibuster rule because they know damn well that nothing is forever in politics and after a couple of elections they may be in the minority and be very glad that the filibuster rule exists.
You might remember that Hitler lost. Maybe he was wrong about a few things.
I would laugh if it wasnt so important. I seem to recall a bunch of coservative PA freepers being upset with the President for supporting this lieing RINO. But what I remember more was all the freepers who argued with them saying Spitor was better then a dem. They disagreed and and I disagreed with them but I stayed out of that debate,
Sure turns out they were right but I am suprised at how outright spector is. He is a shameless example of someone who has no business being in high office.
Just what was the record of the Senate during Bush's first term regarding approval of his nominees? How many nominations were there, and how many were approved? And how does this compare to other recent presidents?
The Democrats also put together a pretty large popular vote. The GOP won this election by a little over 3%. That's a clean win, but it's not a big enough margin that it can't be reversed.
Pat Buchanan is a nut. But while this was a win, it wasn't a landslide. Don't misinterpret what just happened, or the GOP could lose the next one.
What's the procedure for recalling a Senator in your state? Many don't have one. You might have to find a way to make a case for impeachment to get your Senator out of his or her seat.
It's a commitment to something, anyway. I don't know if I'd call it "values". If he really cared about national security, he'd have been pushing for some real border security, instead of the joke we have now.
As for same-sex "marriage" and partial-birth abortion, his stated views are consonant with the vast majority of the population. It's only the media who are opposed to him on it.
And what's your honest explanation for the link I provided? Why was it all of the sudden necessary now to be calling for an increase in the debt ceiling? Why wasn't he calling for it a week ago?
I don't know...I tend to look on this as a bit of Kubuki theater.
I'm sure that Bush knew what he was doing when he threw support to Spector in the PA Senate Primary. Perhaps this is a coordinated attempt to use Spector's "moderation" as a fig leaf to get some appointments through. As much as we may want a Shelby or Chambliss running judiciary, they would probably be far less effective at shepherding the President's nominees through the process.
If the media can be muted, we'll stand a great chance of peeling off 5-8 moderate Democrats in the Senate, more than enough for a cloture vote and confirmation.
Get over the Hillary obsession.
You keep bringing up the FBI files, but you never seem to connect that the files are very old, and the majority of the folks whose files she may have had are no longer in power. We have had significant turnover in Congress after the fact. This was not by accident.
If you want to write off the second term now, be my guest. I'll wait and watch first before I immediately jump to conclusions - I'm weird that way.
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