Your solution is no solution. Your premise is incorrect. "Retribution" and "anger" has nothing to do with removing Specter, so your supposed emotional check you call "strategy" is not strategic at all. It isn't about giving place to anger over 'smarts' on how to manipulate the vote. It is get this guy out of the way now. He is an enemy plain and simple. Period. You will not in any way be able to control him issue by issue with 'leverage'.
The reason I suspected you of being a Democrat is that they expressly depend on emotional arguments/lies and your only 'reason' for why he shouldn't be removed is a direct attempt to portray your 'strategy' as the emotional high ground and as such 'ergo' the 'option of choice'. The filibuster needs to be met head on and in the open for all to see just how far they will go--which will work out for us even more. On a certain level you want them to filibuster. The more they filibuster, the more they erode their base. Democratic Planet is built on emotion. They'll break their own supposed emotional etiquette on which they stand as 'better than everyone else' just once too often and their base will puke--it is already over for them. You are going on a premise of how politics was played in the past as a model for the present and future. That is over. We just voted on that.
We're not hiding in the bushes plotting a battle plan. We're occupying ground already won and digging in with crew served weapons against an enemy determined to kill us and our children through any means possible, to include abortion and homosexuality. They are deceived. They're not doing it on purpose. But they are still doing it. There is more to be done. But giving up hard fought ground already won is no solution at all. We are genuinely in the right here. Giving place to fear is not wisdom.
Pass the ammo, brother. Don't tell me we shouldn't be here. What you put up with always comes back and bites you.
Words well said.