We won the election by a massive turnout of the Republican base. We must not let a RINO thwart our victory.
Are there any FReepers out there still pissed off at me for donating $50 to Hoeffel?
We can thank Carl Rove for his support of Mr. Specter in the vain hope that he would deliver Pennsylvania.
Ain't gonna happen! The PUBS are smart enough to know that if they don't perform on judges they will never be able to turn out again the 4 million evangelicals, that Rove spent 4 years trying to find and that put President Bush over the top. I live in IL. we had a governor who promised to end partial birth abortion and then reneged. There is no republican party in IL. now.
It's time for party discipline to prevail, maybe Delay should become a senator.
Dang right! We are on the road to restoring values to the way this nation is governed, and judges are one of the main problems right now.
Since the Republicans picked up 4 seats in the Senate, I suspect that the "balance" on the Judiciary Committee will change. Perhaps we might get another Republican or one less RAT. Maybe they can apply a bit of pressure on old Arlen.
How do we hate him? Let us count the ways...
The President should NOT have given his support to Spector in this race --- especially if the first words of "advice" out of the bastard's mouth is to give public "advice" to the President, through the left wing rag in San Francisco...
Semper Fi.
He must be punch drunk from letting leahy slap him around for so many years
W and Santorum should have supported Toomey in the primary. This is just like Specter has always been, a disloyal back-stabbing RINO.
Maybe the Senate should reject Spector as too extreme for consideration as Senate Judiciary Chairman. He is pretty much warning the President that he shall be every bit the irresponsible and unreasonable little tyrant, that another recently unseated runt from South Dakota had been in that position, when it came to approving Judicial appointees.
We will never have qualified and outstanding Judges on the Supreme Court, as long as mental midgets such as Daschele and Specter are in a position to block all appointees except those whose only interest in life is continuing the slaughter that Roe vs Wade has caused. Such mind sets are no more rational than a rabid dog.
This is the one reason I support term limits. If the people of Penn. want to send Spector to the senate; if the people of Mass. want to keep sending Kennedy back to the Senate, that is their right. But that doesn't make either Senator any better that the other 98. Who is to say that a first term Senator isn't their equal, isn't better suited for a chairmanship? The Constitution gives the Senate the right to set their own rules but that also allows them to change those rules. So why don't they? The only option left to the people is to use the blunt instrument of term limits to counter the power of incumbency. Those of us with a new Senator should press home that point. I intend to do so with Mel and he is a good example of what I am talking about.
I don't know why he would be chairman. I thought Hatch was chairman.
It's okay to nominate the most radical left-wingers who have ever lived, but it's somehow untenable to nominate a conservative. I'm so sick of these fricking hypocrites I could scream.
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Amend rules. So a committe may make it's reccomendation, but may NOT prevent the full Senate from considering anything. (Isn't this the way it used to be done?)
First, Bush isn't going to nominate some fire-breathing conservative with a proven track record of wanting to overturn Roe v. Wade. It's just too much of a political headache. It's far better to nominate judges without a trail of writings and speeches on the subject. Why give Spector and the abortionists any ammo going in?
It's not even clear that the Court would be interested in revisiting the fundamental ruling of Roe, in any event. Rehnquist himself said as much a few years ago when he acknowledged the deference the Court gives to prior rulings which haven't been challenged in decades. I personally don't give Roe much chance of being overturned unless it gets at least a 7-2 conservative majority.
In any event, reversal of Roe would return the matter to state legislatures to decide individually, and you can pretty much guarantee that abortion would be legal in a blue state conveniently connected to your airport.
So, Arlen Spector is making a bigger deal out of this than it should mean to him, he's showing that he's a complete jerk, and Frist ought to blast him out of the committee on the basis that he's a fool.
If Spector wants to fight Bush, I know whom I'm putting my bet on.
One thing that comes into play is Daschle losing his position. From this point forward representatives from the red states might want to keep in mind that, if they stand in the way of conservative judges they might be the next one forced to pack up and go home.
Too bad that Frist doesn't have the pair necessary to tell The Specter to STFU, and to sit down in the back of the room.
This is totally silly; there is just no reason to allow a party member with that much seniority to be such a renegade, and he must be stopped. The sooner, the better.
I have never liked "magic bullet" Arlen, and I was so hoping he would lose last night.
Arlene is tired. You will have to excuse him. He forgot that POTUS has announced that he will only appoint those judges that will be strict constructionists and not someone who will legislate (interpret in light of the people's values) The senator is mistaken if he thinks this president will be tempering his values for political expediency. This senator hasn't kept up with current events.