[ilovew]

I have to agree with that. If he had been denied the Chair, he would have been whining and moaning and I doubt he'd be set to vote for Alito now.

[You Dirty Rats]

That's why GWB is President and we are here. He figured out how to turn Specter into a fairly reliable ally. Just looking at the results last year: we got a lot of conservative judges approved, including Roberts, Brown, Owen, etc. I don't like Specter and don't trust him, but Arlen has presided over the ongoing shifting of the judiciary to the Right.

If I was a Pennsylvania liberal, I'd be really upset with him.