Posted on 12/06/2004 2:49:17 PM PST by The_Eaglet
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Specter Watch: What Happened to Sen. Arlen Specter and What it Means 11/23/2004 We wanted you to have the most up-to-date information about Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) and his candidacy for Chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The nine Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee announced on Thursday, November 18, their support for Sen. Specter for the committee chairmanship. The support means that Specter will likely assume the position in January.
However, the good news is that the firestorm you, Concerned Women for America (CWA) and many others helped fuel over the past two weeks means that Sen. Specter's hands are tied...
... Concerned Women for America will use Sen. Specter's statement to hold him responsible for any deviations from his promises. He has declared his intentions and CWA will hold him accountable for actions that result in obstruction within the judiciary committee.
CWA made this clear in our Nov. 19 press release. Click here to read it.
We are so thankful for your help as a grassroots member of CWA. None of this would have been possible without you, and now Senate Republicans have really felt the heat of upsetting their base.
For the sake of those coming into this late, we are preserving (below) the action items we asked you to take.
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(Excerpt) Read more at cwfa.org ...
Please see the full article for more details on how to contact key Senators about stopping Specter from becoming the Judiciary chairman.
Thank God for CWA and other folks like them.
Now if we could just find out what happened to Sandy Berger...
Your tagline is worth repeating. Thanks.
Doi they have any kind on annual convention, or a winter meeting? If so, they should invite Arlen to speak, and he should accept..
I believe they do.
The gullibility of we Republicans never ceases to amaze me. We complain to our Senators, pointing out the total unsuitability of Arlen Specter to be Judiciary Chair. These same Senators, who purport to support the appointment and confirmation of originalists to the federal courts, soothe their angry constituents by assuring them that they question his suitability as well.....and then vote in lockstep to confirm him, since he assured them behind closed doors that he will support the President's nominees. And now, Concerned Women for America is trying to spin this as some type of conservative victory, because now they have Arlen's statements to hold him accountable. Exactly what can they do to him now to hold him accountable? And, even if they wanted to, would they have the courage to do it? Does anyone seriously think that, having not had the courage to deny him the chairmanship in the first place (because the Senate tradition of seniority might be broken!)they will find it any easier to remove an already entreched chairman from his committee? So, what exactly will the Republicans in the Senate do when (not if) Specter begins putting obstacles up in front of originalist nominees? I assume they will just use it as a campaign pitch for money. "We'd get our nominees confirmed if only you'll give us 60, 70, 80 votes in the Senate!"
Thank you! :-) Now, if only the GOP agreed.
Actually, the vote has not officially occurred. This will be in January.
CWFA is calling upon concerned citizens to ask Senators to stop Specter from becoming the Judiciary chairman.
Hey Arlene, Olympia, and the other RINOS, welcome to a little plane ride we call mandate, this is your captain W and he will be explaining procedures....
Yes, I realize that the vote has not already occurred. However, all of the Republican members of the Judiciary committee have now gone on record supporting Specter for the job. Despite nearly two solid weeks of outcry to the members of the committee and of tying up phone lines and email servers, not one member came out and said he wouldn't support Specter. It is, therefore, a done deal. Without at least some members of the Judiciary committee refusing to support Specter, there is no chance of the caucus as a whole refusing to support him. Particularly disappointing in all of this is the behavior of Rick Santorum in all of this. He is up for re-election in this coming cycle. This may wind up being quite costly for him, in the long run.
Tagline ~ Bump!
Aren't they all, except when the Pubbies run Bob Dole?
Now, we know from many years of experience that Sen. Specter is not a man of his word. But because he came under such fire, and because his colleagues on the Judiciary Committee have him bound by agreements and stipulations, we are reasonably satisfied with this outcome since it means Sen. Specter is not free to behave in whatever manner he pleases. His colleagues have made sure of that, and any failure on Specter's part to uphold his commitments could result in his removal from the chairmanship.
There is no such caucus procedure to remove Senator Specter during the session. The most that can be done by Republicans is fail to renominate him in some future Congress.
The only act that could remove Senator Specter as the head of the committee during the session is for the full Senate to act with a resolution (even censure by itself does not suffice in the Senate), as was threatened against Senator McCarthy but which was never acted on.
Agree completely. What we see daily on FR and from groups like this is cognitive dissonance resulting from their "idol" [TheParty] shafting them to their face. All these folks and the BOTS on FR can do is rationalize it away as if it doesn't really matter. How many times to conservatives have to get shafted before they finally wake up and see the man behind the curtain has no pants??
Once upon a time in America ...we the people replaced the king and civil servants were exactly that....
Now the state is king and we the people relegated to the role of vassles, cash cows, peons
Our leaders have little if any respect for our demands...and we are forced to choose between two parties that not only have basically have vitually the same outlook...but have more loyalty to each other than they do to the Constitution, We the People or the welfare of the nation as a whole..
imo
Good idea.
It seems that the GOP 'leadership' is trying to say that socialism is conservativism, totally ignoring the Bill of Rights in the process.
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