Take aim at Specter.
I'm calling Frist.
I doubt Senator Kerry is taking phonecalls,and Ted Kennedy is probably not awake yet.
In P.D.F form,
http://www.senate.gov/general/resources/pdf/senators_phone_list.pdf
Cut and paste, or follow the link to the website and click on the link.
Washington, D.C. - Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) made the following comments today on the judicial confirmation process.
“Contrary to press accounts, I did not warn the President about anything and was very respectful of his Constitutional authority on the appointment of federal judges.
“As the record shows, I have supported every one of President Bush’s nominees in the Judiciary Committee and on the Senate floor. I have never and would never apply any litmus test on the abortion issue and, as the record shows, I have voted to confirm Chief Justice Rehnquist, Justice O’Connor, and Justice Kennedy and led the fight to confirm Justice Thomas.
“I have already sponsored a protocol calling for a Judiciary Committee hearing within thirty days of a nomination, a vote out of Committee thirty days later, and floor action thirty days after that. I am committed to such prompt action by the Committee on all of President Bush’s nominees.
“In light of the repeated filibusters by the Democrats in the last Senate session, I am concerned about a potential repetition of such filibusters. I expect to work well with President Bush in the judicial confirmation process in the years ahead.”
Take aim at Specter.
I'm calling Frist.
I doubt Senator Kerry is taking phonecalls,and Ted Kennedy is probably not awake yet.
busy signal
Will keep trying.
At the very least this should put a little fear into the old windbag. He know's we're watching!
Already posted
Just called Inhoffe and Nickles. The girl in Nickles office said if the calls to his office are any indication of what's happening elsewhere it looks like we may get our wish ;)
Sent an email to my Senators (Cornyn and Hutchison)
I'll be sure to call my (now - boo hoo...) lame duck US Senator, Peter Fitzgerald, to see if he will support this effort to block long-time RINO "One-Bullet" Specter.
I wonder if Specter sees the irony of this. If he can litmus test then he can be litmus tested. Bork would have been an awesome SC justice.
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Folks....Specter said in his press conference that the Chief Justice is much more ill than we know.
The Corner caught this:
"did the media miss another screaming headline in that Specter press conference? "... the Chief Justice is gravely ill. I had known more about that than had appeared in the media. When he said he was going to be back on Monday, it was known inside that he was not going to be back on Monday. The full extent of his full incapacitation is really not known, I believe there will be cause for deliberation by the President." Sound to me like a Supreme Court vacancy is no where near academic. This is happening. And Specter, behind closed doors even before he is causing public trouble at a hearing, is going to be calling some major shots."
WE MUST GET HIM OFF THE CHAIRMAINSHIP.
I have contacted both of my US Senators and asked them to not let Arlen Specter head the Judiciary Committee.
I do not want Sen. Arlen Specter to be selected as chair of the Judiciary Committee. The appointments of new Supreme Court Justices are certain to be amongst the most important events of the next several years. I do not believe Mr. Specter is a trustworthy Republican in this regard.
The day after President George W. Bush was re-elected, Mr. Specter went on record with his views of what the President can and should do with Supreme Court Justice nominations. He also articulated views related to Roe v. Wade and the role of stari decisis that clearly indicate his unwillingness to consider the kind of Supreme Court Justices that I believe the President is likely to nominate. Regardless of Mr. Specter's subsequent revisions of meaning, he is arrogant and untrustworthy. I also remember with disgust his opposition to Judge Robert Bork's appointment to the Supreme Court.
Please do what you can to express the views of voters, such as myself, in opposition to Arlen Specter's chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee.
Been calling.
I give my title and first name.
Then I say something like:
"I would like to register a strong conviction that it's crucial to our nation to prevent Senator Specter from becoming chairman of the Judiciary Committee."
It's either a recording or the staff member notes they will pass along the opinion.
Then I say something like: Thank you Very much.
Very quick and easy. I encourage all to do it.
If Cornyn's staff are busy, he encourages you to go to his website.
Please contact GOP Judiciary Committee members to express your disapproval of Specter:
http://stopspecter.savethegop.com/index.php?page=act
Set up a fax to Frist with your email account. Send it to exactly this address:
remote-printer.Honorable_W._Frist/Suite_211@16153529985.iddd.tpc.int
It will show up in his Nashville office fax machine.