Posted on 11/06/2004 8:39:17 PM PST by vannrox
Title: GOP Sen. Specter Vows to Block Bush's Nominees Source: newsmax URL Source: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/29/165559.shtml Published: Oct 29, 2004 Author: newsmax Post Date: 2004-10-29 20:42:24 by TLBSHOW 3 Comments
Recall that alleged Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, upon winning the primary, immediately backstabbed President Bush, who had campaigned for him instead of actual Republican Pat Toomey. Turns out Specter was just getting started.
We now see that the usually pro-Democrat Pittsburgh Post-Gazette endorsed the sharp-horned RINO in Tuesday's general election for this reason: "Before the Post-Gazette editorial board, he promised that no extremists would be approved for the bench."
What the pro-abortion Specter and pro-abortion Post-Gazette mean by "extremist" is anyone who isn't pro-abortion or who otherwise follows the U.S. Constitution instead of making up legislation from the bench.
"Even if he votes nine out of 10 times for the administration, we trust his word that the 10 percent of difference will be a brake on the worst excesses of a second Bush term, if it comes to that," the pee-yoo P-G snarled.
That is code language telling Bush that he will oppose any nominee that the Democrats will filibuster.
Since the Democrats will filibuster any conservative nominee, Specter is plainly saying he will oppose any conservative judge.
The GOP leadership needs to put that guy in a corner with a dunce cap!! What an idiot!! Why in the heck did W back this fool and traitor?
This guy is a traitor. He needs to be kicked out of the party. The party will be stronger with 53 or 54 loyal Republican senators, than with vocal RINOs like Specter and Chafee bad-mouthing the President's nominations to the media. I am sure that the NY Times already has Mr. Specter on speeddial for a quote to support their case that "reasonable" Republicans don't support the President's judicial nomiations.
And, to make things worse, his 527 blanketed the Philly area with "Kerry and Specter.. for Working Families" signs (as confirmed by the National Review.)
Zell Miller did a huge amount of damage to the Democrats. Do we need a Zell Miller?
I want him to Bork Specter, (Or tell Specter to go Bork himself) I want him to appoint (and actually fight for) Rush Limbaugh to the Supreme Court, I want him to Drill in ANWAR, and do all the other stuff that will cause mass suicides in the ranks of the liberal elite.
I believe as much heat as possible must be brought to bare on Specter.
He MUST understand that his grandstanding and unprincipled life is now open to the Red States and if he continues to make Liberal decisions the outcry from us will only grow.
Their is not a single seat within the Senate more important to the Conservative agenda being enforced over the next few decades than the Chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
It is the judiciary that enforces the US Constitution. It is through this committee that individuals are moved to judicial positions...positions that oversee all of this countries legal bodies.
No amount of blowback in making sure he does not get the seat can compare to the damage this Liberal can do from that position.
He CANNOT be allowed to chair this committee.
And if he lashes out and cannot humbly submit himself to the will of the Senate leadership then he is not the kind of Man we want to support in the first place.
If anything else...this should humble him. when all is said and done, I would rather he not get the chair.
"WE" [Not the Libs] we removed Lott for being an idiot and we can make sure this other putz does not interfere with what we want to accomplish.
Honestly, I'd rather dump him outright, pull his credentials and send him over to the Democratic side of the aisle...but I'm not a rational person when it comes to dealing with leftover hippie generation rejects/traitors.
We will see what ends up happening but the heat must remain on him.
Priority 1: Remove Specter from the Judiciary (Day 4)
11-6-04 | Always Right
Posted on 11/06/2004 8:11:17 AM EST by Always Right
Update:
Under the current rules, the way to go about preventing Specter from becoming the Chairman of the Judiciary is to have someone CHALLENGE Specter for the Chair. Hatch is term-limited and can't continue. Grassley is very unlikely to give up his Chair of Finance Committee. Senator Jon Kyl is next in line and seems to be the best candidate. This is where we need to concentrate on, getting someone to CHALLENGE Specter for the Chairman's role. We need to contact Senator Kyl to see his willingness and also contact other Senators to support Kyl in making a CHALLENGE.
Focus: Drafting Jon Kyl as Chairman - E-mail, fax, phone all GOP Senators!
I believe all this is decided when the GOP caucuses. But we still lack information on this. I have conflicting reports, they caucus next week, they caucus in the next two weeks. I believe the Senate is in recess until November 16th, but it is possible the GOP caucus in before then. We need understand the process more if we want to impact it.
Keep up the Good Work: We are being heard!
Watch out for Specter: Specter knows he is in trouble. Specter is going on the talk show circuit to make his case. Don't buy into his BS. Specter will point out that he has supported Bush's nominees. He voted for Thomas. He voted for Scalia. Of course, so did Senator Kerry and 96 other Senators. Like Senator Kerry, Specter wants to maintain the liberal balance on the court. They will only support a conservative judge if it does not threaten Roe v. Wade. Senator Specter says he doesn't have a litmus test. But just ask Specter what he would do if the court were divided 5-4 on abortion. I am 100% convinced Specter would pull out any and all stops to make sure a pro-abortion judge is appointed. The more I learn about Specter, the more I see that protecting Roe v. Wade is his number one priority. This is why Specter will do and say ANYTHING to get the Judiciary Chairman assignment. Specter is a snake, when he goes to pat you on the back watch out for the knife in his hand. Specter flat out hates social conservatives and 'strict constructionist' judges. Specter is a 'living document' guy.
Our Resolve:
Whereas, liberal Senator Arlen Specter is in line to be Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
Whereas, liberal Arlen Specter has a stated litmus test against pro-abortion judges.
Whereas, liberal Arlen Specter has stated he will fight against conservative judges
Whereas, in the past liberal Arlen Specter has helped defeat great judges like Robert Bork,
Whereas, the Democrats have loaded the Judiciary Committee with extreme liberals such as Kennedy, Feinstein, Leahy, and Schumer.
Whereas, liberal Arlen Specter is in a position to turn our huge and historic election victory into a defeat by killing the nomination of all decent judges,
Be it resolved, that we will do whatever it takes to get liberal Arlen Specter off the Judiciary Committee
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So first Lara Lakes Jordan writes the AP piece on 11/3 informing us that "Specter warned" President Bush and we immediately set our GOP Senators savaging each other. And who is "journalist" Lara Lakes Jordan? The wife of longtime Kerry buddy Jim Jordan, coincidentally one of Kerry's campaign managers and highly involved in Dem Senate matters.
It doesn't matter that Specter says his words were taken out of context and it doesn't matter that Specter has voted for every one of Bush's nominees to date, nooooooo, a Kerry operative tells us to jump and we start pole-vaulting. And now we are inflating it to "Specter vows to block" the nominees?
I think we're being played like cheap harmonicas.
This is surrendering without a fight. The Democrats will filibuster anyone who doesn't promise not to reverse ROE.
Now can you explain why Specter voted against Bork?
this bashing of Specter makes me sick. It reaks of tactics used by the Democrats.
Has everyone forgotten that Clarence Thomas was dead meat and saved in part by Arlen Specter's cross-examination of Anita Hill? As a Republican in "blue state" he risked his political hide going to bat for now Justice Thomas.
Already I can see disaster getting good nominees if a perceived "moderate" like Specter is dumped.
It didn't work with Thomas. It won't work with any other conservative-thinking minority nominee, either.
That said, we should do what we can to avoid Specter's assumption of the Judiciary committee chair.
If you are going to respond to my post, perhaps you would actually address the substance of it?
If Terry McAuliffe's wife wrote an article trying to turn GOP senators against each other, folks here would see right through it. Longtime Kerry pal and Dem operative Jim Jordan's wife writes one and we eagerly oblige?
And she's ALREADY been caught using her position at AP to deliberately try to damage GOP Senators...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32268
Who is Lara Jakes Jordan?
For starters, she is married to veteran Democratic Party operative Jim Jordan, the former executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and manager of Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid.
Not surprisingly, the Massachusetts Democrat was among the first to criticize Santorum's remarks, using it as an opportunity to attack the White House. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Kerry got an advance copy of the article given his connections.
But there's more to the Lara Jakes Jordan story.
In January of this year, Mrs. Jordan was one of the signatories on a letter to her bosses at the AP attacking the news organization for "rolling back diversity" by not extending benefits to domestic partners.
In a symbolic move, the signatories to the letter returned key chains AP management gave them to "celebrate" its corporate diversity. The key chains carried the slogan: "AP Diversity: Many Views, One Vision.
It seems Mrs. Jordan's ideological fervor is not reserved only for her private life and her corporate politicking. This woman clearly ambushed Santorum on an issue near and dear to her bleeding heart.
I've been in the daily news business for 25 years. When I got started a quarter century ago, there was an old newsroom saying that went like this: "I don't care if you sleep with elephants as long as you don't cover the circus."
Mrs. Jordan violated that old newsroom ethic. She abdicated her right to cover the circus because she was sleeping with an elephant – or, in this case, a donkey.
That's why I say these catcalls for the head of Rick Santorum are nothing more than a political sideshow. It's not Rick Santorum who should be forced from office for clearly stating views that have been considered mainstream for the last 5,000 years. It's Lara Jakes Jordan who should be drummed out of the news profession for scoring cheap political points under the guise of news reporting.
It's not Rick Santorum who should apologize to anyone. It's the Associated Press for sponsoring this political hit piece.
Senator Specter says that his comments were taken out of context by the MSM, after Dan Rather, how hard is that to believe? He probably made some injudicious remarks to reassure his Pennsylvania "base" that he's not going to propose Pat Robertson for the next Supreme Court vacancy. If Specter's definition of the "radical Right" doesn't include Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia, why should we worry about it? Is someone seriously suggesting that the President renominate Judge Bork, or something like that? The point about having someone like Specter running Judiciary is that he can (probably) keep his fellow "RINOs" in line when the chips are down, as well as persuading the "moderate" Democrats that any nominee he (Specter) can live with probably isn't a closet snake handler or poison drinker. Republicans may currently hold a 55-45 edge in the Senate, but if you drive away the NE Republican "moderates" by "Borking" Specter(okay, they're liberals under an assumed name), then you'll not only destroy your working majority, but you'll give the "moderate" Democrats an excuse to join the Filibusters.
"He probably made some injudicious remarks to reassure his Pennsylvania "base" that he's not going to propose Pat Robertson for the next Supreme Court vacancy."
Good idea.
Arlen Sphincter
Nah, Limbaugh should stay on the radio--or maybe go for Pres himself later on. Though I'm sure a few FReepers wouldn't like that. I don't know--Reagan's passing the title of "voice of conservatism" to Limbaugh back in '92 or '93 is about the best endorsement anyone in politics could hope to get, IMO.
Bush should nominate Bork.
>>It is the judiciary that enforces the US Constitution.<<
Which gives me cause to say that 90% of all judicial official offials need replacing. We have a fine legal system in place, most of whom are petrified when the words US Constitution are brought up in their Courts. Their primary goal is to defeat the Constitution, not support it.
It seems that anything our bureauocrats or elected officials wish to impose upon America the judges find it their duty to agree, giving no thought to rights or restraint of government.
Justice is blind...... and has been safely locked away for preservation in the next century.
Look for the press to minimize Spector's comments in an attempt to keep Sen. "Not Proven" in the Chair in order to add additional hurdles to conservative judges.
Have Jim DeMint and Dr. Coburn tie him up and leave him in the coat closet.
Regards, Ivan
I think you make some good points and have been thinking about what you and others have said in this string.
Based on what the MSM has done in the past and the info here about Ms Jordan, I'm wondering if this wasn't a set-up job.
Even if Specter (who is definitely not one of my favorite Senators) stays on as Judiciary Com head, I tend to think that after the thousands of calls, etc he has gotten the message that he needs to tow the party line and the wishes of many, many Rep voters, the Admin, and other Senators. As long as he promises to get the nominees through the committee and to a floor vote quickly (which I believe he has done), I think we'll be ok
I wonder if someone else is put in as head of the J.C., if it might not just give more fodder to the MSM and the Libs (as if they need more).
Not only do we need to get good judges approved, we need to get some of the poor execuses off the bench (the 9th Circus Court of Appeals may be a good place to start).
OK, I will address the substance.
1. Your facts are inaccurate.
2. Your conclusions are illogical.
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