Posted on 11/16/2004 12:33:57 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Sounds like code for "I'm pro-abortion".
(Just kidding)
Pod People.......
He MUST go.
Of course not. Nor do you count children before they are born.
God help any congresscritter who puts Specter in the judiciary committee. Their seats will be forfeit in 2006 and 2008.
Is that the smell of greased palms and scratched backs wafting out of that room?
I hope you are right. I think the senate "traditions" will prevail and Specter will be confirmed.
Ahhh that Trent Lott spine we all know and love.
As at the Alamo, the line has been drawn in the sand......and Sphincter.....always the coward....will grovel....and spin...and be Sphincter... Don't be fooled again.
I think it will be Specter as chair and that he will do a surprisingly good job. He also provides a very useful foil with the media -- if Specter supports the President's nominees, they cannot be that conservative.
We will also need Specter and the moderates on tort reform, social security privatization, and much more.
Where's that list of phone numbers again? We need to reinforce the message to these hard-headed senators. I want Lott's number!
Lott resigned for the good of the party over some innocuous remark. Spector obviously doesn't care about anyone else. Why can't Spector resigned the chairmanship for the good of the party.
This may be nothing more than putting on a good face. Let's hope so!
I will guarantee the Pubbies, if they put this guy in as chair, they will come to regret it.
Like the house of Lords, the Senate is a cozy club very protective of its members perquisites. Gives the Republic a bad name.
can he be voted off later if he acts up?
Exerpt from Schippers' Sellout:
Finally Senator Lott and Republican Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania entered and sat at the head of a big rectangular table. Lott leaned back in his chair with a power lean that said, "I'm in charge." I'll never forget the very first words out of his mouth: "Henry, you're not going to dump this garbage on us."
Some things never change.
"God help any congresscritter who puts Specter in the judiciary committee. Their seats will be forfeit in 2006 and 2008."
Worth repeating.
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