Again, the statements made by Specter to the San Francisco Chronicle do not constitute the entirety of his record on this issue!! Please read along.
Similar statements have been reported in the past. This is NOT the first time this has been brought up. This is not the first time that it has been mentioned that he is next in line to become Senate Judiciary Chairman. The SF Chron published the story because Specter had just said what he said. Should they have waited a week or two so that you wouldn't be suspicious?
We're not trying to destroy the nutcase. We just don't want him in the sensitive position (especially after 4 years of Daschle's and Kennedy's judicial obstruction) of Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee with enough power to further obstruct or affect Bush's judicial nominees.
Bush won a clear mandate in this election - a clearly conservative, pro-life mandate, and we expect to gain from that victory. WE WILL HAVE CONSERVATIVE, PRO-LIFE JUSTICES AND FEDERAL JUDGES APPOINTED and no damned Scottish law spouting RINO is going to stand in the way of that!!! Give him chairmanship of some other committee, but don't let him anywhere near the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee.
What do you all make of Bush's statement that he believes he has a lot of newly found political capital and is ready to use it?