Posted on 12/01/2004 5:13:54 AM PST by JesseHousman
but he promised not to block any judges that are anti-abortion to get the gig. He wouldnt lie right? /sarcasm
do you trust a snake?
he has to know not to bite the hand that feeds him though. We will see how this pans out.
We all need to call our loyal,conservative U.S. 'watchdog' Senators on the judicial committee on this....
Yes, the good-old organized labor seniority-based system. You aren’t going into a function because you’re worth a s#it, you’re going into it because you are entitled, having occupied space for so long.
That’s not to say that experience doesn’t have its place, but Specter wouldn’t be appropriate for the position if he was there 200 years, IMO.
When faced with the first nominee who may actually change the balance on the court in a conservative direction, Specter will find some pretext other than abortion for declaring the nominee "extreme" no matter how contorted his reasoning.
Geez, why does Frist think Specter wants to be chairman, anyway? He wants it so bad he did the most remarkable public groveling since Jimmy Swaggart. I don't think he's looking for the prestige of being a lapdog. He wants to be praised for his upcoming "courageous" stand against "extremist" judicial appointments.
Wel folks: I stand against Specter, but when you get right down to it , he has to be pretty bad to be any worse that Orrin Hatch. What has Hatch done to get Bush's nominees through the vote? Whatever it was it wasnt enough.
"Concerning a promise Specter had made to some 50 religous leaders while running for reelection in 1986," Specter had made a "firm promise to the religious conservatives" that he would not oppose any of Reagan's nominations to the Supreme Court. (See "Ninth Justice: The Fight for Bork" by McGuigan and Weyrich, p.57.) That promise lasted about as long as it took for Specter to be reelected.
Specter was not to be trusted then; he is not to be trusted now.
Its about Specter building his legacy. The next generation of Supreme Court justices will be known as the 'Specter Court'...not the Bush Court. Just my two cents as a PA constituent.
I believe it's a picture of Orrin french-kissing a poodle or something like that.
We keep trying to think of a way to clean house and get rid of the lifers who are responsible for most of the economic and social problems we have, but then we'd have to sweep the Soopreme Kort clean of everyone but Thomas and Scalia. Thomas makes more sense than anyone there.
That April primary saw Specter squeak by with 527,000 votes to Toomey’s 510,000. President Judie Brown of the American Life League laments that many pro-lifers have become “Republicans first and pro-life next.”
Republicans have always claimed to be the pro-life party. But that claim can no longer be made credibly. And Senator Arlen Specter is the man most responsible for this remarkable shift.
Absolutely. Unfortunately with Boobie Hatch, that's a difficult task.
I think he does. He can't imagine the level of anger that would descend upon him if he holds up a Bush nominee because of abortion. The "block Specter" movement will pale by comparison.
LOL. In the old days when the seniority system was followed like Holy Scripture, you would get doddering old coots who were half-blind and half-mad chairing committees for years and years. It was almost comical if it wasn't so serious.
I think he isnt going to block anyone, simply because as a Senator, he has aspirations at the Presidency himself in 2008, which is clearly wide open in the GOP right now...
We'll see - if he does that, not only will Capitol Hill freeze with mountains of phone calls from pro-lifers, but Bush will come down on Specter very hard, because he knows that the Republican coalition depends on him getting his judges through.
Under no circumstances will someone as liberal as Specter be nominated for anything. He has to know that. He just wants his glut of power on the Judiciary committee, and to get his face on television, and to have people call him "Mr. Chairman."
true....
But I think (well actually kind of know) that he thinks that he is smarter than everyone (typical liberal) and that he thinks he can outsmart everyone by flip flopping a bit now (havent said that in a month :)) and maybe get a shot...
no way in hell he ever gets the nomination though....
=== Republicans have always claimed to be the pro-life party. But that claim can no longer be made credibly. And Senator Arlen Specter is the man most responsible for this remarkable shift.
This is a lie, of course.
Anyone who has read the 1970 Republican Task Force report on "Earth Resources & Population" knows well that abortion, birth control and the "right" to predetermine the sex of your children (much less environmentalism and the "moral" obligation to control and winnow population so as to avoid "down breeding" and assure "hereditary/genetic quality") all are GOP policies.
But we all know how prone Useful Idiots are to believe Big Lies. Who knew the joke was on us.
If he does run I hope his candidacy goes down in flames.
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