What does Spector care about a political career he has cancer which will probably kill him anyway. We said from the beginning he never should have been on the Judicial but NOOOOOOOOOO, they had to place hime there. It was nothing but a stupid move to allow him to be where he is.
Remember all the lobbying by MILLIONS of people across the US (every major family group, religious group, etc) to prevent Specter from getting the judiciary chairmanship?
The phone lines at the Capitol switchboard were jammed, almost 24x7 with calls AGAINST giving Specter the chairmanship. But, in typical Washington fashion, the Powers That Be (on our own side, da#n it), decided to do what THEY thought was best - and went completely against public opinion and gave it to him ANYWAY.
Supposedly, he had to write a letter promising to support W's judicial nominees, move them through committee, and generally behave himself.
Predictably, this "promise" wasn't worth the paper it was written on.
So, what would most of us do at this point if Specter doesn't play nice? Yep - we'd nuke his Scottish behind right off the committe, strip him of his chairmanship and run him out of town on a rail.
But our R leadership? Oh, nooooo..that wouldn't be "appropriate".
Our side is getting CREAMED lately. If we don't do something major and show some real leadership, I fear we're gonna get trounced in '06 and '08, because there is a VERY large # of us who have HAD IT with this "leadership" that we put into office in the last election. And we'll be sitting home come next election, DESPITE the consequences.
Indeed. Stripping him of the committee chairmanship would make him much more likely to vote with the party leadership.