Why the Specter flap matters

My first reaction to news of l'Affaire Specter was bemusement -- a classic example of post-election, multisided bloviation. Upon reflection and a little reporting, I've decided that the assault from the right on the Pennsylvania Republican senator just elected to a fifth term is in fact serious, revealing, and possibly an early indicator of the latest attempt by conservatives -- after a generation of false starts -- to actually govern the country. The knee-jerk thing would be to come to Arlen Specter's defense while he is under assault by forces normally characterized by people of my bent as primarily loony. Bad idea. For one thing, Specter is not worth defending; at best he is relentlessly quirky, at worst opportunistic. For another, in this formative, postelection period, it is more useful to understand the forces that instantly became so furious at him last week. The flap directly involves an ancient goal of conservative politics -- reshaping the federal judiciary. Orrin Hatch of Utah is about to cease being chairman of the Judiciary Committee -- through whose portals all judicial nominees must pass -- because of one of the lingering inanities of the brief Newt Gingrich era: term limits. By seniority, Specter is next. Specter faced a primary opponent to his right ideologically and then a moderately demanding general election. With the votes behind him, he opined that future judicial nominees by President Bush who clearly do not favor abortion rights as embodied in Roe v. Wade are likely not to be confirmed. That is not exactly what he said, but I am positive that is all he meant. He made no threat or promise involving his own behavior. It is clear, however, that in classic Specter fashion, he was declaring himself a player.

He has a point, though he makes it small with his other dribble, having started out with an idea and then drifted to express his mere hatred of the right. He has basically said "Let's see it."

It is time to govern the country in Christ. After decades of mere bitter fighting, a lot of us have never seen in our lifetimes the America that we have prayed for and sacrificed for. It has been a hope and in faith in God--not faith in those who said they understood and would lead us there though they are blessed in their own way and for God's purpose. All many of us have known is the fight and the words of it and the country in a constant state of fight. The fight isn't over altogether by any means, but a major victory has been won.

We will not take to ourselves those methods of government that have gone before us and which the socialists have tried to teach by example were a kind of natural law for government else our victory will end in disaster. Their incredulity at the viability of conservative government is based on our taking to ourselves their methods of how to govern. Us and their methods don't match. Even they want to see another way.

Specter has to be removed from the judiciary commitee. Any compromise now--at the beginning, will signal a hesitance of having or implementing a solid plan that fundamentally differs from the socialist/left agenda of what government is and does. They think they have so successfully poisoned the people and therefore the political process that any attempt to let the people (which includes us) do truth will end in disaster. Their distrust of their socialist neighbors who voted with them and the people in general drove and still drives their methods and all their speech. Their method would be to comprimise with Specter and play the game because the whole game they do as false government is based on distrust of one's neighbor and they can't do anything else as they know nothing else.

There is no game. People are not fundamentally evil at all--they are fallen in sin. Now that the God has moved, let us see an honesty before the people that the Democrats know nothing of. The people can take it. Indeed, they have long for it, to be free of the giant tick that is the lies and socialists that has sucked at their throat all this time. But stick to the prayers you have prayed, the hopes you had and still do. And do not trust men. On their best day doing their highest good they will always fail you. But God is eternal and he will lead us all, the Democrats/socialist who were deceived that we were their enemy when we have not ever been any man's enemy but are merely wrongly accused of it by their heart, and us to that place we have prayed for. There is a saying: "If you build it, they will come." But the truth is that God will build it through us and it will be both proof and peace to those who think of us as enemies presently. Part of that building is the removal of Arlen Specter. God bless him doing something else and having a part in the good-- other than being on the judiciary commitee. We only have to govern and do what needs doing today for today. We don't have to govern tommorow today or do any emotional math of how the people might react tommorow or years from now at all.

1 Corinthians 2:4-6 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen

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