so arlen sphincter is in control of who is named to the supreme court? his vote counts more than the other 99 senators? i wish you one issue folks would calm down and trust our president and our party to do the right thing.
Don't be an idiot. Even if we had a 60-senator majority, which we don't, the chair of the judiciary committee has a thousand ways to obstruct and delay. He sets the schedule. He decides when to take up consideration of an appointment. He sets the rules. He decides when an appointee goes to the floor. He decides whether the committee or the senate will be given the opportunity to vote.
Specter will not openly obstruct right away, but he will delay and complicate and obfuscate. And when he sees his chance, he WILL obstruct, just at the moment when we are in the clinch and Bush is being attacked by his political enemies on some other issue.