Posted on 11/18/2004 9:29:49 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
DOES THIS mean that I have to rise to the defense of Arlen Specter? If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, is the target of my enemy my hero? Do I have to rally whole paragraphs around the senior senator from Pennsylvania? Puh-leeze.
In the aftermath of the election, the ayatollah wing of the Republican Party has insisted that their opposition to issues like same-sex marriage and abortion put the president back in office. That's their story, and they're sticking to it.
Now it's payback time, and the folks who already own the White House and Congress are itching for the last piece of property on the Monopoly board: the Supreme Court. The real fight won't come until and unless ailing Chief Justice Rehnquist resigns his post. But the wrangling over the next chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee is a pretty good warm-up.
Just days after Specter won a bruising reelection campaign in a state that the president lost, he was asked about court appointments. Specter offered his opinion that any candidate overtly ready to overturn Roe v. Wade wouldn't make it through the Senate. This rather ordinary analysis was interpreted as a threat to winning over the Supremes.
In short order, James Dobson, the patriarch of Focus on the Family, called him a "big-time problem" and said he must be "derailed." Conservative petitions were launched with the stern warning: "Do not allow this chameleon of a charlatan to become chairman."
Next, a less-than-supportive Senate leader, Bill Frist, called Specter's comments "disheartening." And on Tuesday, conservative Christian groups held a pray-in outside the Senate Office Building.
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It has to do with scumbag Senators who obey Scottish law.
Even Ellen Goodman finds it hard to like Specter. In fact, nobody likes him.
If the right wing bitterly remembers when Specter opposed Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987, the left remembers when he defended Clarence Thomas in 1991. In leading the charge against Anita Hill, the prosecutorial Specter said her testimony was "flat-out perjury." It was a phrase that launched a million buttons reading: "I Believe Anita."
It seems to me that both sides have pretty long memorie but remember different things.
What what I've heard, most people find it hard to like Ellen Goodman, too.
Why? Who has Bush nominated that was too conservative in Specter's mind?
The Democrat wacko extremists groups will continue to go on full attack against any Bush nominees, and Specter will let them have their way with them while he proclaims his personal support for the nominee.
It's just like Ann Coulter said (I'm paraphrasing) that Liberal Republicans are fawned over by Liberal Democrats and the media as long as it's convenient for them. Once they have no use for you, you revert back to a blithering idiot and they push you out of office any way they can, ala Bob Packwood.
The liberals didn't care that Bob Packwood was a lecherous scum as long as he voted their way most of the time. It was only when they didn't need his vote anymore that the genie came out of the bag and he was pushed out.
The same thing might be happening to Specter now.
That is right! This is REVENGE!!! Sweet Stupid Self-Destructive Foamy-Mouthed REVENGE!
Specter is considering the opinions of the people who voted for him in PA. How dare he ignore the right fringe who worked so hard to replace him with Toomey!
Not a one. Specter has voted for and supported every single Dubya nominee. THIS CAN NOT STAND!!!
Santorum vs Rudy for president. Today I might pick Rudy because I know where Rudy is coming from. I thought Rick was a true conservative & would stand up to the likes of a Specter. We found out different. We found out apparently by the whole bunch on the Judicial Committee. protect their own -don't do the will of the people that put them there. If I'm not mistaken this voting in done in secrecy. If I hear nobody stating how they vote & Spenctor is chosen I will assume they all gave him the break over us.
"...Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator-elect who said that doctors who perform abortions deserve the death penalty. (Why stop at doctors; how about women?)"
Why not? We killed Nazi's in WWII for "crimes against humanity."
No, I am afraid this has to do with abortion, only with abortion, and almost nothing but abortion; 30 million souls make it so.
The ayatollah wing of the Republican Party.....I love that. The rats just want us Repubs to be like them, then we would be, you know, just regular republicans. Ellen goodman is a pathetic liberal dweeb.
Exactly. Senators have a mutual survival pact that is more important to them than the interests of their constituents.
Hold EVERY member of the Judiciary Committee accountable.
This from the perspective of Ellen Goodman, a representative of the Stalin wing of the media.
Santorum is up for reelection in 2006, Replace him with a third party candidate and scare the shit out of all of them. They ALL, Dem and Repub think we are afraid of a third party Senator. Why would be, he couldn't do anymore damage than they are doing and he just might do some good for a vchange, like uphold the Constitution
FYI, that "right fringe" was 49% of the primary voters. It would have been enough to beat him, too, if Bush and Santorum hadn't actively campaigned for him. Rick will have some bridges to mend here in PA in '06.
Toomey would have won...but he didn't. Don't get mad at Dubya, Cheney, Santorum, and Allen. They were looking out for your best interests. Toomey would have gotten his hat handed to him in the general election.
Don't bet the farm on that, friend. No one can say for sure, but I think he would have won, as did Santorum.
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