Specter has not kept his part of the bargain.
Time to replace him with someone who will.
Specter, the wolf in sheep's clothing.
The man spends his earlier years defending a famous murderer and then becomes a senator. No respect for this guy from the get go.
He can threaten all he wants. He's not the only guy on the hill.
Specter is the classic RINO. He's been making the threats to Bush on Supreme nominees since well before the election.
With the majority they now have and with "values" having turned out to be one of the key issues that brought people out to vote Republican there is now NO EXCUSE for the party to fail in getting most of its agenda enacted. Obstruction from leftists of either party must not be tolerated. Specter has no "right" to the chairmanship and if he is given it and proves to be an obstruction he needs to be removed and a man like Kyl put in his place.
President Bush must lead on this as I doubt (based on past performance) that Frist will do so. Many of us out here who gave our time and money to the party are expecting that the party will now act like it is the majority party. Accomodation and compromise on the little things can be tolerated but judicial appointments are not little things. Next to the war they are the most important issue we face. Whether or not the Republicans can control their own and impose the discipline necessary to get the job done is going to be a crucial test in determining whether or not they continue to hold the majority after 2006, 2008 and into the future.
Please note who has a "litmus test" for judges. Libs constantly complain about a conservative litmus test, when in reality, theirs is just as strong if not stronger!
Examine this statement and one is looking into the soul of a liberal.
The Constitution is not meant to be interpretetd to reflect the values of the people. It is meant to be interpreted to reflect the intent of the law itself.
This is where these people see the Constitution as a "living, breathing document", that can be changed simply because (as an example) radical feminists want the right to kill unborn babies as a convenience.
The old man may not be here long enough to have any say about it.
Hell, he's as old as many of those on the court.
Bush warns Specter that people mysteriously just up and "disappear" every single day, in this country.
Even senators, sometimes.
Y'know. :)
The Republicans need to oust Arelen Specter. Make him a Democrat becasue that is exactly what he is. Specter was the cause of PA going to Kerry. Small margin was Specter liberal crap. I don't like this man at all.
While you're contacting your Senators, tell them to keep other RINO's like Chafee, Snow, etc. off the Judiciary Committee as well.
This article is "dust in the wind", libs are gonna feel the heat and they can't do a dang thing about it.
With 55 Senators, and popular vote for a mandate, they can cry and scream all they want, they have NO power.
Just shut up, Senator, and pass them through to the voting process.
Dear George,
Thanks for all the help in the Primary. Unfortunatly, no good turn goes unpunished. I look forward to working against you in the disloyal opposition for the next four years.
Up Yours, Arlen.
Specter would do well to consult Daschle about obstructing justice.
Just remember ARLEEN! There is something called a recall election.
What would happen if Bush nominated Specter for SC?
It is the peoples mandate that allows the president to make these kinds of appointments when the dems are requiring 60 votes to move things from committee to a vote.
In other words, WE can influence this even now. I'd like to see us here at FR mount a campaign against Specter, or for Bush's first nominee to the Court.
That kind of action would have an effect. We could target those senators who were dragging their feet with freeps and mail and PR.
Are you up for it?
Specter is a sphincter. He is only a cipher in the Republican senatorial majority.
"When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, overturn Roe v. Wade, I think that is unlikely," Specter said, referring to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
While Specter is a loyal Republican -- Bush endorsed him in a tight Pennsylvania GOP primary -- he routinely crosses party lines to pass legislation and counts a Democrat, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, as one of his closest friends.
These two sentences alone tell me just what a jerk this guy loves to be. Not to mention calling himself a moderate republican, a mythical entity if ever there was one. You are either a Republican and are loyal to party principles, or you are a deceiving dem in republican clothes a situation that has gone on long enough.
Oh yea I'm an independent voice yada yada yada, that is the same line used by our democrat representative to the House, Stephanie Herseth, and is indicative of everything she stands for. To add to this, the fact that Roe of Roe v Wade
has for years recanted her lying testimony before said supreme court shows just what he knows about the case.
Haven't seen anyone in the congress suggest to the supreme court that it might be time to overturn such an illegal decision as Roe v Wade, since said decision was based purely on testimony given by one who will just as willingly testify was a manufactured lie.
No, this gentleman, and senator, unworthy of either title by virtue of his own condemning statements, and his historical position in the senate, by that I mean his presence during the sham impeachment trial of WJC, ought to go down in history as the first of his ilk to be drummed out of the party. After all, when you can't count on his vote when the chips are down, what good is number 55.
Mr Specter and mr Biden both are worthy of far more attention than I am going to give them on this forum, the word bum is too good a word to describe their well proven status.