[counterpunch]

I am told that Arlen Specter has gone back on every single promise he made when his chairmanship was still a question, and feels untouchable now that he is ill, because any punitive measures taken against him would be seen as ‘less than compassionate’ by the MSM and Democrats

Bush and Santorum made their beds. Now Bush has Specter sabotaging his agenda and Santorum is going to lose his re-election bid for supporting "Scotty". Instead of Pennsylvania having one Republican senator, it will have none. Spector is actually worse than simply not being a Republican. He's doing far more damage on the inside than he could have done from the outside. I don't see how kicking Specter off the Judiciary committee, or hell, out of the party could do all that damage to the GOP. People would shrug their shoulders and say "who?" and then forget all about it a week later.

Gonzales would face pointed questions about Abu Gharab, Gitmo, and the administration’s policy on torture. It would have been ugly, but he would have been confirmed against the added damage done by dejected a dejected conservative base, and liberal attacks on the President’s agenda.

Miers is vulnerable to the exact same attacks.

[maryz]

Santorum is going to lose his re-election bid for supporting "Scotty".

I read that Santorum owed Specter for supporting him when he ran. And isn't Santorum going to be running against Casey (who I believe is very popular)?