Specter warns Bush on high court nominations

Houston Chronicle ^ | 11/3/2004 | LARA JAKES JORDAN

[downwithsocialism]

Joanie, thank you for the excellent weaving of the Warren Commission-Sessions-Bork-Clinton problems altogether into an easily understandable picture. I had forgotten about sessions, and you wrote it in bold. ;)

I will be calling both of my senators and Frist on Monday. This cannot happen!

[First_Salute]

All I can say, and all I have to say, is, that I nominate Theodore B. Olson to be the next Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; and next on my list, should he decline, is Justice Thomas, and next on my list if he should decline, is Justice Scalia.

[Mudboy Slim]

I like all three of yer proposed candidates, but I'd have to give Scalia the nod as the next Chief Justice...the man's simply the most brilliant defender of the Constitution in our lifetime, imho...MUD

[SiliconValleyGuy]

I didn't know, or forgot, that Specter was part of the Warren Commission, and I didn't know that only one federal judge was borked between FDR and Sessions. That's amazing.

I'll be making a couple of phone calls on Monday.

Thanks, Joanie.

[Lancey Howard]

That's a great post.
NOW is the time to act on Specter because the decent humans have 55 Senate seats and the scumbags have a mere 45 (counting the mouse Jeffords). If Specter wants to jump to the scumbags (and make it official) then it's really no sweat. But Arlen isn't about to join the minority party and TOTALLY diminish his "power". So, to emphasize through repetition, NOW is the time to ACT on bouncing Specter from the judiciary chair.

[Cedar]

Bump for excellent post #159

[Minuteman23]

I know you must be good at the piano, but you should have been a lawyer or a diplomat.

Do I sound like a broken record?

[ForGod'sSake]

Well, seems nobody in this house cares much for your bud   ;^) Rinos are becoming less tolerable as conservatives begin to march. You have thrown some old light on a new problem(tricky, huh?). Like I said Spectercide is poison. Working on a graphic to emphasize the point......hopefully.

FGS

[snopercod]

I had been looking for a consise summary of Specter's treachery. Thanks for providing it.

I just wrote Sen. Dole, and Sen.-elect Burr in opposition to Specter's nomination. I also signed the petition at GOPUSA (Over 5800 have signed so far.)

[Landru]

"But, as they say, that’s water under the bridge. I simply hope that President Bush now has a new, and exquisitely personal, understanding of the phrase biting the hand that feeds you. Arlen Specter has one mean and powerful bite."

I get the feeling Bush's hand might've already felt the bite of the creep, Angel.

Sure would explain one thing, straight-away.

...his campaigning for the scumbag.

[aodell]

Let me say it one more time- You have an uncanny ability to get to the nitty gritty of a subject that other people see as cloudy. I agree with Minuteman, you would have been a fantastic lawyer. But don't take that as an insult because of what your fellow lawyers act like. ;)

I agree that those are the four most sick things he has done. When you put them together like that it's hard to miss.

[twntaipan]

Awesome post--deserves its own thread actually.

[BraveMan]

Arlen Specter's colleagues need to take him aside and remind him that not only does he need the party to vote him into the chair of the senate Judiciary Committee, it can also throw him out on his ear. Mr. Specter may also be held in check, as will others, by the fact that 55 seats may give the GOP the right to a two-vote majority on certain committees, thereby isolating party holdouts.

Ex-Senator (I love the sound of that) Daschle's demise came precisely because his opponent effectively explained to voters that it was Mr. Daschle who jammed the gears of the President's agenda. That's something to consider if you are pining for the chair of the senate Judiciary Committee.

[Landru]

"Ex-Senator (I love the sound of that) Daschle's demise came precisely because his opponent effectively explained to voters that it was Mr. Daschle who jammed the gears of the President's agenda. That's something to consider if you are pining for the chair of the senate Judiciary Committee."

Good points to heed Braveman for a reasoned, level & honest person.

But this Spector character?
He's really an odd duck.

Methinks when he dies?

...they'll have to bury him strapped to an auger.

[FBD]

Very informative esay, joanie, thanks.
I heard Spector on the Rush Limbaugh show, denying many of the things that you've disclosed about him. Methinks he wants it both ways, depending on his audience. Your point about his impeachment vote underscores that.