Posted on 11/07/2004 7:42:21 AM PST by VaBthang4
Specter was asked twice if the President had a mandate. Specter hemmed and hawed with the first answer...then when pressed said the President does not have a mandate.
THIS GUY HAS GOT TO GO!!!!
And that's one of his good qualities.
Dan
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I predict that he will switch parties within a year. He's almost there now.
Specter is an ungrateful shill of the Dems... He has to go. He cannot be on the Judiciary committee period. The President has too much to accomplish to allow this dim-wit to stand in the way he didn't even pull PA for Bush get him out now... Petition.
On another note, Susan Collins is using the Dem talking point "lame duck session."
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Brother, are you ever right. We had the chance, and threw it away. It was a risky thing, though, since we could have ended giving it to the Dim, but really, how much worse would that have been?
Specter evidently owes someone in the democratic party a HUGE favor. For Bush, who he is kicking in the teeth, evidently had nothing to do w/ his reelection.
MEMO TO GOP: if you let this ONE DUDE, this ONE GUY STOP GETTING THE CONSERVATIVE JUDGES ON THE COURT AS PROMISED IN THE ELECTION YOU WILL SERIOUSLY TICK OFF THIS REPUBLICAN!!
There are two ways to go:
1) Bounce him out of Judiciary.
2) Leave him as Chairman but with the private lecture that if he strays, he's gone.
Option 1 has risks. He could go semi-Jeffords and become a media darling to whom the reporters go whenever they need a quote to humiliate the GOP. He could also use his considerable seniority in the Senate to obstruct all sorts of things in revenge. We should not discount his power to do this. From his perspective, he's in his 70's, he's paid his dues to the party (and he has at least somewhat -- he did stymie the liberals on Clarence Thomas. He was very effective for us then), and he'd be outraged if he was publicly humiliated by the party.
Option 2 risks again his considerable power of seniority. He could Bork our nominees and defend himself in public, making it very hard to remove him after the fact. There is some way to reduce this risk. Possibly the WH can make him a player in the nomination process. "Consult" with him. Nominees do NOT, EVER, answer the abortion question. "I cannot comment on any matter relevant to a case that might come before me as a Justice on the Court." So the nominees will have to be well camouflaged anyway.
It's a tough situation. I think the optimal solution is to PROMOTE him to a "higher" committee and offer him enough sugar in that promotion that he accepts. That would be best. But if he doesn't consider any committee higher and won't accept the efforts to avoid humiliating him, we are facing Option 1's risks.
Specter, Collins, Snowe... :-(
At the time, it was looking very much like the Republicans would lose the Senate. We needed every seat and it was no sure thing that Toomey would be elected in an open race.
Now, I'm wishing we'd taken that chance.
-Dan
IOW, he'll switch back to the Democrat Party, where he was initially registered before switching parties to get on the ballot?
Beautiful animal.
Senator Sphincter is an @$$hole
"Thufferin thucccotash, we have to put up with Specter for six more years!"
Dan
Now wait a minute. What were his words, exactly?
It's entirely possible he said the President does not have a mandate to do XYZ. Or something similar. Let's not go crazy before we hear his full statement and his subsequent clarifications and his subsequent flip-flopping and the further clarifications to clarify the flip-flopping.
He's goat to go for TWO important reasons
Because he is an impediment to conservative judges reaching the bench
AND because an example needs to be made of him for other RINOS to see what happens if they start spewing their RINO BS
He was already a democrat once. So he's the once and future democrat Specter.
"Specter, 74, a former Democrat, came to the Republican Party after Philadelphia GOP leaders courted him as their candidate for district attorney in 1965."
The spectre of Specter...
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