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AP: Specter Rewriting Pledge, Senate Leaders Find First Draft Unacceptable
GrassrootsPA ^ | 11/18/04 | GrassrootsPA

Posted on 11/18/2004 10:38:30 AM PST by GeneralHavoc

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1 posted on 11/18/2004 10:38:31 AM PST by GeneralHavoc
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To: GeneralHavoc

This just might turn out OK after all. Wait and see.


2 posted on 11/18/2004 10:39:15 AM PST by RockinRight (The Left's train of thought has derailed.)
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Sounds like they have a good plan going....he could do real damage if he gets pissed off and does a Jeffers....


3 posted on 11/18/2004 10:41:12 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: GeneralHavoc

They need to pin him down on more than just abortion. What about 2nd Amendment? What about 10th Amendment? What about tort reform? What about creeping dependence on citations of foreign law as precedent?


4 posted on 11/18/2004 10:42:39 AM PST by Paine in the Neck
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To: GeneralHavoc

Let's keep the e-mails, letters, calls and faxes going folks. This is way too important to leave it up to the country club set in the senate.


5 posted on 11/18/2004 10:42:39 AM PST by conservativecorner
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To: GeneralHavoc

Pledge to whom? His word is no good.


6 posted on 11/18/2004 10:43:05 AM PST by Delphinium
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
he could do real damage if he gets pissed off and does a Jeffers....

How? Then he's removed as the Chairman, and the Senate count is 54-46. There's no real damage there.

7 posted on 11/18/2004 10:45:38 AM PST by Coop (In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I would rather have him leave the party than to block the judicial nominees. The Republicans may have a very small window of opportunity to get Bush's nominees through. If we don't take advantage of the window of opportunity, then we may not get that opportunity again for a very long time.

The Republicans need to change the Senate filibuster rule for judicial nominations, or the democrats will use that to stop Bush, regardless of any threat in the next election for senators in the red states up for reelection. Neither party should have the power to filibuster judicial nominees, so we have nothing to lose by changing that rule.
8 posted on 11/18/2004 10:47:15 AM PST by Hendrix
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I agree his word is no good.

Thank goodness they are making him put something in writing ;)


9 posted on 11/18/2004 10:47:47 AM PST by GeneralHavoc (Stop Specter From Blocking Bush's Judges! Visit StopSpecterNow.com!)
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To: Coop
He would take some of his moderate friends with him, McCain, Collins, Snowe,....
10 posted on 11/18/2004 10:48:48 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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Why do we have to go thru this crapola. He a menace to the conservative agenda. GET RID OF HIM.This guy can pick the staff, etc. He can cause much more damage than a word on a piece of paper. He & the other 99 do not adhere to the words in the Constitution so why this silly piece of paper. Oust him now & move on with the agenda that the people sent on election night. End of story!!
11 posted on 11/18/2004 10:49:04 AM PST by Digger
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There's no real damage there.

AMEN!!! It was a disgrace to support him for re-election when he had a CONSERVATIVE
running against him in the primary.
I would have rather seen a democrat whip that RINO's ass.

12 posted on 11/18/2004 10:49:26 AM PST by trickyricky
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To: Paine in the Neck
AND , having American Soldiers subject to an international Court, that is a BIGGIE in my book, sovereignty issue.
13 posted on 11/18/2004 10:50:59 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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"Even under Scottish law, Spector must GO".

14 posted on 11/18/2004 10:51:38 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Then I say unto you, send men to summon ... worms. And let us go to Fallujah to collect heads.")
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He would take some of his moderate friends with him, McCain, Collins, Snowe,....

Then we will see just who the obstructionists to our agenda are. I doubt that they would go but let's see who with us or against us.

15 posted on 11/18/2004 10:51:55 AM PST by Digger
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To: Paine in the Neck

They are not pinning him down on abortion. They are pinning him down on judicial nominees.


16 posted on 11/18/2004 10:54:44 AM PST by Once-Ler (God Blessed America Again!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
He would take some of his moderate friends with him, McCain, Collins, Snowe,....

Like Jeffords did? :-)

17 posted on 11/18/2004 10:54:56 AM PST by Coop (In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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This is about strategy....we as conservatives are moving the country ever so slowly to the right,,,,and it is slow and very painful after 70 years of the country having lurched far to the left....but we must chose the battles carefully....

In my opinion that is what is going on here....

18 posted on 11/18/2004 10:55:37 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Digger
I would rather call their bluff and see if they go that to not implement Bush's agenda because we are afraid that something bad might happen or that we have to get tuff with the democrats instead of playing nice, like Republicans often do (which causes them to lose in the Senate).

Bush and the Senate need to be bold and do whatever it takes to implement the conservative agenda, even if it makes the other side mad.
19 posted on 11/18/2004 10:56:07 AM PST by Hendrix
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"This is about strategy....we as conservatives are moving the country ever so slowly to the right,,,,and it is slow and very painful after 70 years of the country having lurched far to the left....but we must chose the battles carefully...."

That's true to a point, but Republicans often are too timid in choosing the battles. There are lots of issues that are ripe for choosing (they won't get any more ripe), so it's time to get to work to make it happen.


20 posted on 11/18/2004 10:58:13 AM PST by Hendrix
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