[mysonsfuture]

Stop Specter Now!

[Norman Bates]

I don't understand why the President backed Specter in his campaign over the more conservative Republican.

[mysonsfuture]

An error in my punctuation (sorry), but you get the point. Stop the madman, please.

[zeebee]

Quit yammering and sit down.

[Spiff]

Gee, Thanks!! Finally, SOMEONE posted a thread about this with a couple of phone numbers or something. </sarcasm>

[Cedar]

Specter just cannot be trusted with this position.

Keep your voices heard!

[sinkspur]

In case you hadn't heard, word is that Specter has dodged the bullet and will be approved.

The reason is simple math.

Boot Specter out, and you lose the votes of Chafee, Collins, Snow, and maybe McCain.

IOW, the GOP would be in worse shape approving judicial nominees than it was before last Tuesday.

[deport]

tell the President Christian

Call Bill Frisk Office

Huh?................

[uscabjd]

If Specter gets the chair, can he be removed by the Reps if he does not vote to confirm conservative judges?

[Cedar]

Keep the calls going, folks.

Let them hear that Specter cannot be trusted.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Hold your friends close.
Hold your enemies closer.

[Paperdoll]

Today on Hannity I heard Robert Bork say that Specter voted to put the US Military under the jurisdiction of the international court.

Get that guy off the committee! What more do we need?
FAX the White House at 202-456-2461.

[Paperdoll]

Today on Hannity I heard Robert Bork say that Specter voted to put the US Military under the jurisdiction of the international court.

Get that guy off the committee! What more do we need?
FAX the White House at 202-456-2461.

[OwnershipSociety]

Not gonna try and stop him. The President wanted him re-elected and that's good enough for me.

Stop the bloodletting!

[Republic]

First of all...we need a conservative who has been a GOVENOR or Mayor of a large city, not a SENATOR to run for the presidency. Period.

We need someone with experience running an administration and making decisions that directly impact lives...not someone used to walking the senate hallways, making speeches from the floor that are never challanged directly and especially not someone who appears soft and non-leaderlike.

Frist? Oh please.

Ya might as well run elmer fudd up against her heinous.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Frisk isn't going to run for president. That takes backbone and a lot of work.

[Cedar]

Senator Specter has an Agenda — Liberal Judges
“President Bush ran forthrightly on a clear agenda for this nation’s future, and the nation responded by giving him a mandate.” – Remarks by Vice President Cheney introducing President Bush for his victory speech, Ronald Reagan Building, November 3, 2004.

President Bush’s margin of victory proves that we “have a narrowly divided country, and that’s not a traditional mandate…the number-one item on my agenda is to try to move the party to the center.” – Sen. Arlen Specter, November 3, 2004.

Senator Arlen Specter's shocking comments the day after President Bush's decisive re-election raise troubling concersn


Specter denied the legitimacy of President Bush’s historic mandate.


Specter announced a pro-abortion litmus test for the president’s judicial nominees. Specter claims that Roe v. Wade is “inviolate” and insists that “nobody can be confirmed today who does not agree with it.”


Specter’s illegal litmus test would disqualify all constitutionalist nominees from serving on the Supreme Court of the United States and the lower federal courts.


Specter’s illegal litmus test demands that all nominees violate the canons of judicial ethics by announcing or pledging how they will vote in a particular case.


Specter will not promise to support the President’s nominees. Instead, he merely “hopes” that he can support them. The day after the election, when a reporter asked Specter if he would support the president’s nominees, the senator hesitated and equivocated: “I am hopeful that I’ll be able to do that. That obviously depends upon the president’s judicial nominees. I’m hopeful that I can support them.”


Specter criticized President Bush’s first-term judicial nominees: “The nominees whom I supported in committee, I had reservations on.”


Specter insulted Janice Rogers Brown, president Bush’s nominee to the important U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Specter referred to Brown, a distinguished conservative and the first African American woman to serve on the California Supreme Court, as “the woman judge out of California” who he had reservations about.


Specter insulted the entire Supreme Court of the United States, including Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justices Scalia and Thomas. When a reporter asked Specter “Are you saying that there is not greatness” on the Supreme Court, Specter replied: “Yes. Can you take yes for an answer?”


Specter’s comments reveal that, like Sen. Kerry and Sen. Daschle, Specter favors judges who follow politics and popular opinion, not the Constitution and the rule of law.


Specter accused President Bush of ignoring the Senate’s advise and consent role: “The Constitution has a clause called advise and consent, the advise part is traditionally not paid a whole lot of attention to, I wouldn’t say quite ignored, but close to that.”


Specter wants to encroach upon the president’s appointment power. Obstructionist Democrats filibustered ten of President Bush’s appeals court nominees. Now Specter wants the Senate to become MORE involved in judicial appointments: “My hope is that the Senate will be more involved in expressing our views.”


Specter's record over the last 20 years demonstrated a pattern of very troubling conduct on Judiciary Committee issues



Specter fought against the distinguished Judge Robert H. Bork, betraying President Reagan and his fellow Republicans.


Specter voted against Judge Bork on the judiciary committee, and against Bork’s confirmation on the Senate floor. By joining liberal Democratic senators and radical left-wing groups in their opposition to Judge Bork, Specter gave those groups aid and comfort, and was instrumental in Judge Bork’s defeat.


Judge Bork warned Americans that Specter does not understand the Constitution and that Specter, along with Senate Democrats “professed horror at the thought that a judge must limit his rulings to the principles in the actual Constitution.”


President Ronald Reagan called the left-wing assault against Judge Bork “an unprecedented political attack” on a Supreme Court nominee and “a tragedy for our country.” Specter rebuffed President Reagan’s plea to support Judge Bork.


Specter helped defeat the nomination of conservative Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship.


Specter warned filibustered appeals court nominee William Pryor that just because he voted for him on the committee did not mean that he would vote on the Senate floor for his confirmation.


The “National Review” exposed Specter as “The Worst Republican Senator” in a prominent September 1, 2003 cover story. According to “National Review,” Specter “is not a team player…is an abortion rights absolutist, a dogged advocate of racial preferences, a bitter foe of tax reform, a firm friend of the International Criminal Court.”


Specter refuses to support the elevation of Justice Clarence Thomas to Chief Justice: “I’d have to think about that,” Specter equivocated. Ditto for Justice Antonin Scalia: “I’d have to think about that too.” Specter once slandered Justice Thomas as a “disappointment.”


The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee must be someone devoted to the Constitution as written and the rule of law



The situation is urgent. Chief Justice Rehnquist is gravely ill. A Supreme Court vacancy is imminent.


President Bush may be called upon to nominate a Supreme Court justice within the next several weeks.


Court watchers predict as many as three Supreme Court vacancies during President Bush’s second term.


President Bush will likely have a historic, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to return the Supreme Court to constitutionalist principles.


The President needs as chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee a loyal, reliable, conservative partner who will shepherd his nominees through the confirmation process.


Under intense political pressure, Specter tried to recant portions of his post-election statements the day after he uttered them. That means nothing. His 20-year record of party disloyalty and tormenting conservative nominees means everything.


As chairman, Specter will act as a vexatious intermeddler, second-guessing President Bush’s Supreme Court and lower court nominations. This imperils the President’s legacy.


Under the Senate’s seniority rules, Specter is slated to take over the Judiciary Committee, but under Senate rules and procedures, he can be stopped from becoming committee chairman.


The window of opportunity to stop Specter is limited. Once he becomes chairman, it will be impossible to unseat him.





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[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

That there are even any Republicans willing to tolerate and defend the vile anti-Christian and anti-Catholic bigotry of such a loathsome smarmy degenerate creep like Specter should raise a few eyebrows among any sincere conservatives interested in what really goes on in the temples of power in Washington.

When I was a young man, I briefly dated a liberal Democratic lobbyist in Washington. She told me about her close friend ( a 22-yr-old staffer fresh out of college) who was allegedly having an affair with a senator from Connecticut. Another story which came through this liberal fever swamp of young female skanky Democratic swingers in the slimy wasteland of Washington was that the pro-choice Senator from Pennsylvania had an "open marriage." Apparently, the ardent enthusiasm for keeping abortion legal sprang from more than just academic interest.

[DaGman]

Spector is a done deal. There never was a chance to keep Spector from being chair because the Senate would never junk seniority regardless of who controls the Senate. End of a story that never was. Here's an area where each party is just as bad as the other.