K-Lo from National Review Magazine Coming up on Laura Ingraham to talk about Arlen Spector

Laura Ingraham ^ | 11/9/04

[gopwinsin04]

More on the protests to make sure he doesnt get the chair of the Senate Judiciary..

[gopwinsin04]

listen live here http://www2.krla870.com/listen

[The G Man]

Thanks for the heads up! I'm there!

[gopwinsin04]

Up now...says his office lines are jammed

[Rutles4Ever]

Specter's making "nice" with his newest public pronouncement. It will be a terrible error in judgment to mistake these pronouncements for honesty.

I'm a little disappointed in Santorum. He apparently is encouraging Specter to make these conciliatory statements. The skinny is that Santorum is worried about 2006 and will need Specter's support for re-election.

There are three possible reasons for this:

1. Santorum believes Specter won't get the chairmanship anyhow, and would like to secure his moderate base influence for re-election in 2006.

2. Santorum believes the lesser evil is Specter in the chairmanship if he can secure another term in 2006 and do some legislative damage. Frist will carry the water on this, anyhow.

3. Santorum's just another politician.

I'm hoping it's #1. I think it's #2. I doubt it's #3.

[gopwinsin04]

#1..

[Keith]

It's #1....Santorum is smart enough to know that Specter has cooked his own goose...hehe.

[Keith]

The lesson here is...don't (mess) with the President...

[gopwinsin04]

Hopefully..

[VeritatisSplendor]

Grassley is the key. He is on the committee and senior to Specter, but doesn't want to give up his Finance Committee chairmanship. He should give it up anyway, and take the Judiciary chair, for the good of the country. President Bush should personally ask him to do this.

[montag813]

I'm a little disappointed in Santorum. He apparently is encouraging Specter to make these conciliatory statements. The skinny is that Santorum is worried about 2006 and will need Specter's support for re-election.

Santorum has lost a huge amount of credibility in my book. to see him make all those impassioned, eloquent, brave arguments for life on the floor of the Senate, and then support a man like Specter, who has no respect for life whatsoever, was repulsive. His support for Specter in light of his most recent comments is just pathetic.

[DameAutour]

Very confusing, K-Lo is the one and only Kimberley Locke, there is another K-Lo?

[Big Digger]

So, if Grassley moves to chair Judiciary, who moves into the chair at Finance?

[CWW]

But you know, Rick Santorum knows that if you remove Spector from the Chairmanship, then Spector becomes an enemy. They can always remove him if he doesn't follow through with his promise to get the Bush nominees through the commmittee.

Another thought is that maybe the pubbies want it to be Spector who reads the political writing on the wall and decides to resign the Chairmanship, rather than push him out. They need to get Spector on the reservation and keep him there because they need his vote.

[BibChr]

Your first paragraph is my fear. Check out Hugh Hewitt's thoughts as well, at www.hughhewitt.com.

My question would be: has a chairman ever been removed, as you suggest MacSpectre might be removed if he strayed? Mightn't the repercussions of such an "ideological purge" (as it would be reported) be pretty serious? I can hear the campaign remarks.

Dan

[Dems_R_Losers]

Forget about Grassley. Finance is going to be the glamour committee in this Senate. Grassley's name will be on the President's tax reform bill if it passes. He has done yeoman's work on Finance. We should not ask him to give it up. A good tax reform bill is just as important as confirming good judges!

[BillF]

Kathryn Jean Lopez, who writes for National Review including its Corner online blog (click to go there), sais that we must keep the pressure on.

Senate staffers have told Lopez, whose comments sometimes appear under "KJL," that the only way that Specter can be blocked is by forcing the Senate through messages (phone, fax, email, letters) to the Senate. It will take a firestorm of polite, but firm, input to the Senate.

Contact your Republican Senators (click here to find contact info for all Senators), GOP Leadership (click here for info), and GOP members of the Judiciary Committee (click here for info, GOP members on right side of page).

[unspun]

Very little reason to be cryptic in a long title, thanks.

[Poohbah]

Need pictures of Laura and K-Lo.

[unspun]

Once again:

It is much more important for the Senate to change the rules to allow "advise and consent" to be advise and consent --free of an arbitrary 60% cloture rule.

[BillF]

The below is from Stop Specter Now!

You can click on the Senator's name to pull up a form and send an email.

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Your activism is crucial to our success on this major endeavor. There are four concrete steps you can use to help us win this fight

1. Join Us - Sign up for our e-mail list so that you will be updated on the fight.Name: E-Mail:

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2. Call Senator Santorum's Office [ 202-224-6324] - Tell them that the pro-life movement depends on a pro-life judiciary and that we need to make sure Arlen Specter is not Judiciary Chair.

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3. Call Senator Frist's Office [202-224-3344] - Tell the Majority Leader that the grassroots of the Republican Party worked hard to re-elect the President and we will not let Specter stand in the way of a common sense constructionist judiciary.

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4. Write a Letter to the Editor - Send a letter to the editor in to your local paper describing how important these judicial appointments are and how Senator Specter is standing in front of the will of the people.

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5. Sign the Petition - Sign the petition urging the Republican leadership to not appoint Specter chair of the Judiciary Committee. [Do it Here]

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6. Contact the Other GOP Senators on the Committee - If you click on the Senator's name you can send them an e-mail.

 

Orrin G. Hatch CHAIRMAN, UTAH Tel: (202) 224-5251	Jeff Sessions ALABAMA Tel: (202) 224-4124
Charles E. Grassley IOWA Tel: (202) 224-3744	Lindsey Graham SOUTH CAROLINA Tel: (202) 224-5972
Jon Kyl ARIZONA Tel: (202) 224-4521	Larry Craig IDAHO Tel: (202) 224-2752
Mike DeWine OHIO Tel: (202) 224-2315	Saxby Chambliss GEORGIA Tel: (202) 224-3521
	John Cornyn TEXAS Tel: (202) 224-2934