Posted on 11/11/2004 12:29:04 PM PST by MissouriConservative
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) wants to make his case to be chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee directly to the panel's GOP members next week.
Conservative groups want senators to pass over Specter for the chairmanship because of his comment that anti-abortion judges would be unlikely to be confirmed by the Senate.
Specter, who is an abortion rights moderate, has been calling and meeting with senators individually to assure them he wouldn't personally block Bush nominees from being voted on by the full Senate.
The senator now wants to go in front of the GOP's Judiciary Committee members and hash things out next week in a private meeting, said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a committee member.
The GOP committee members get the first vote on whether Specter will replace current chairman Orrin Hatch, who is stepping down. Whatever decision they make can be appealed to the full GOP caucus.
''I expect we'll sit down with him and hear what his plans are to support the president and his nominees,'' Cornyn said.
I don't believe you.
Sit on THIS.. Arlen..
Some people have the wrong end goal, though. That's what I'm trying to point out. Getting rid of Specter should not be the goal -- the goal should be to get good judges confirmed without threat of being blocked. Some have made statements essentially saying that if Specter stays and good judges make it through, that's worse than Specter going and good judges not making it through. It's warped.
"Moderate???" Try RINO!From the ACU:
Senator Arlen Specter (RINO)
Pennsylvania
Republican, Years of Service: 23
ACU Ratings for Senator Specter: Year 2003 65 Year 2002 50 Lifetime 43 http://acuratings.com/acu.cgi?ACT=1&USER_ID=2858&YEAR=2003
I love you throw-your-vote-away guys. The socialists and communists in America "threw their votes away" for decades until plank-by-plank the democratic party adopted their political platforms.
Buchanan never supported the republicans? Didn't he serve in the Reagan White house?
As for devastation, would that have been when Bush Sr. gave the oval office to Bill Clinton?
Buh-bye!
To be fair to his loyal supporters, he wasn't exactly fired. He started having difficulties with some of the newer speech writers (one in particular of the name Peggy Noonan) and ended up getting PROMOTED to a windowless office, no other staff, and no responsibilities.
He took the hint and resigned. He never did forgive Reagan or the Republicans after that, and in particular hates the whole Bush family.
However, Raymond Burr who played Perry Mason on TV WAS gay.
Peggy Noonan is interesting. I read What I saw at the Revolution. It's funny how the guys she championed in that book went on to serve in the Bush white house. Most of whom ended up being disasters.
YOU'RE a rank and file Republican Mr. Brigadier? LMFAO.
This is typical forum B.S. The usual idiots set up a bogus brinksmanship event they are bound to lose, and all the subsequently and grievously victimized blame the GOP, RINOs, Bush and the rest. Yawn.
This Specter thing is just an early opportunity for the losers, Third Party mutants and chronic Bush-bashing trolls to retake the forum after four or five months of positive winning energy. Same old sheyatt.
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks for the ping!
Did Specter say that? How horrible. It sounds like a case of "projection."
You do understand that this "rape & incest" cause is less than 2% of arbortions?
Of the 40 million abortioned citizens and taxpayers and workers and consumers and mothers and fathers in the US since 1973, 98% were aborted because the "mother" didn't want satretch marks to interfere with her next date.
There is no middle ground on abortion. There is only pro-life and pro-abortion and Arlen is pro-abortion.
Nice way to characterize 95% of FReepers, Arne.
Yes Ma'am.
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