Posted on 11/11/2004 10:19:29 AM PST by churchillbuff
If I were the guest booker for Hewett or Hannity, I'd book the editorial board members of the Pittsburg Post-Gazette and Philadelphia Inquirer, and other Pennsylvania papers that endorsed Spector on the grounds that he told them he'd stop "extremists" from getting on the courts.
How exactly did he define "extremists"? Is what he's saying now - that he'll support all of Bush's nominees - at odds with what he told his home-state newspaper editorial boards? If so, do the editors feel they were lied to -- and will they condemn him in print for reneging on a pledge? Or are we, the American people being lied to by Sen. Specter now?
WHY IS NOONE INTERVIEWING THE EDITORS WHO WROTE THE EDITORIALS SAYING THAT SPECTER PROMISED TO STOP CONSERVATIVE JUDGES? I WANT TO HEAR, FROM THEM, WHAT SPECTER PROMISED -- AND I WANT THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPUBLICANS TO HEAR, TOO.
Here's what the Post-Dispatch wrote:
"The best argument for his staying on is his seniority, which puts him in line to be the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In that capacity, he would be in a position to block some of the ideologically extreme federal judges likely to be nominated by President Bush in a second term, some of them for the Supreme Court. Before the Post-Gazette editorial board, he promised that no extremists would be approved for the bench."
They also ought to have Sowell on. And Bork. (Is it true that Specter voted against Scalia?)
That is not an argument, it is the default system in place because the GOP senate leadership did not want to take the responsibility of actually making a decision.
Scalia passed 96-0, so everyone voted for Scalia.
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
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