Posted on 11/07/2004 1:03:53 PM PST by walford
Arlen Specter, just one day after the historic Republican victory at the ballot box has warned the president not to nominate judges that are too pro-life or too conservative. The arrogance and sheer audacity of Senator Specter proves that he, despite any claims of seniority, is unfit to Chair the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Voters sent a clear message of support for the President's agenda, and he deserves a Chairman that shares his views of the judicial nomination process, not a maverick seeking to impose his own beliefs on the court.
He further explained that the Left is finding it increasingly difficult to win elections, so they prefer to have issues settled by justices who would function as robed Philosopher Kings. The hope is that they would then impose laws that the electorate will not support and countermand the ones that are deemed by Our Betters to be inappropriate.
[Clearly this conspicuously anti-democratic use of SCOTUS is NOT the intention of the Framers.]
Appointing someone who would not play along with this strategy is seen as a clear threat to this plan, so it should be no surprise why the Left becomes so hysterical when a Constitutional jurist is considered for the bench.
STOP SPECTER FROM BLOCKING BUSH'S JUDGES
Contact Senator Frist 202-224-3135
Contact Senator Santorum 202-224-6324
Tell them in no uncertain terms that Specter cannot be made Senate Judiciary Chairman
Do NOT take "no" for an answer!
Bush has no Mandate?
Just say "NO" To Specter's Games!
Senate Judiciary Committee GOP Members
Contact Senator Orrin Hatch 202-224-5251
Contact Senator Charles Grassley 202-224-3744
Contact Senator Jon Kyl 202-224-4521
Contact Senator Mike DeWine 202-224-2315
Contact Senator Jeff Sessions 202-224-4124
Contact Senator Lindsey Graham -202-224-5972
Contact Senator Larry Craig 202-224-2752
Contact Senator Saxby Chambliss 202-224-3521
Contact Senator John Cornyn 202-224-2934
Those who voted to uphold Roe v. Wade included Associate Justices John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O’Connor, David Souter, and Harry Blackmun. It was Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy who would cast the deciding vote in the case. Kennedy was initially going to vote to overturn Roe v. Wade but ultimately caved in to pressure from pro-abortion groups and voted to uphold it.
Kennedy should never have been a judge in the case. He was appointed to the Supreme Court only after the man nominated before him, Judge Douglas Ginsburg, was voted down by the Senate after admitting he had smoked marijuana in the past. And Ginsburg was only nominated because the man nominated before him was none other than Robert Bork, whose fate we already know. If not for Arlen Specter, it would have been Bork, not Kennedy, casting that deciding vote.
Thanks to Arlen Specter, one golden opportunity to overturn the atrocity that is Roe v. Wade has already been squandered. Can we really afford to put him in a position to do it again?
Remember: those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
With 45 million babies dead and counting, perhaps it is time we informed Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of the folly of giving Specter the power to replace Tom Daschle as obstructionist-in-chief.
BTTT
Note to those who haven't figured it out already: You can click on the link at the top of the thread to get to the petition. Here is the link in it's clean form:
http://www.notspecter.com/petition1.php
BTTT
I cannot comprehend why certain FReepers are being so gullible, telling us to just "trust" Bush on this. Roe V Wade would already be history if not for Specter!!!
Trust God. Everyone else...you know the rest.
BORK SPECTER!!!
So what do those of us who opposed the President do now?
... Arlen Specter makes me optimistic. A Republican who is set to take over the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he's telling the Bushies that he does not want to see judicial nominees who are extremists from the right.
----E.R. Shipp, New York Daily News
Have signed petiton. Thanks!
Just was emailed the following:
JUDGE ROY MOORE
The following is a poem written by Judge Roy Moore from Alabama. Judge Moore was recently sued by the ACLU for displaying the, Ten Commandments in his courtroom foyer. He has been stripped of his judgeship and now they are trying to strip his right to practice law in Alabama.
America the Beautiful,
or so you used to be.
Land of the Pilgrims' pride;
I'm glad they'll never see.
Babies piled in dumpsters,
Abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty;
your house is on the sand.
Our children wander aimlessly
poisoned by cocaine,
Choosing to indulge their lusts,
when God has said abstain.
From sea to shining sea,
our Nation turns away
From the teaching of God's love
and a need to always pray.
We've kept God in our temples,
how callous we have grown.
When earth! is but His footstool,
and Heaven is His throne.
We've voted in a government
that's rotting at the core,
Appointing Godless Judges
who throw reason out the door,
Too soft to place a killer
in a well deserved tomb,
But brave enough to kill a baby
before he leaves the womb.
You think that God's not angry,
that our land's a moral slum?
How much longer will He wait
before His judgment comes?
How are we to face our God,
from Whom we cannot hide?
What then is left for us to do,
but stem this evil tide?
If we who are His children,
will humbly turn and pray;
Seek His holy face
and mend our evil way:
Then God will hear from Heaven
and forgive us of our sins,
He'll heal our sickly land
and those who live within.
But, America the Beautiful,
if you don't - then you will see,
A sad but Holy God
withdraw His hand from Thee.
~Judge Roy Moore
Constructionists believe that the Constitution can be amended outside of the specified process by activist judges and elitist legislators who do not want their edicts to be subject to a popular mandate.
Specter stated that he was opposed to “Government” getting involved in the “Bedroom”.
What do abortions have to do with the bedroom? Abortions are performed in clinics. Abortion is not a sexual act.
As for following the Constitution, where in the Constitution is the clause that authorizes the Federal Government to address the issue of abortion?
The 9th and 10th amendments make it clear the States should address the issue of abortion.
Contrary to Specter’s words, his actions make it clear the he thinks that he Federal Government should be managing the lives of every person in the Country. He needs to be brought down.
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