Posted on 11/12/2004 2:27:51 PM PST by swilhelm73
A conservative member of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he could support Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) as chairman of the committee if Specter issued a public statement saying he would not try to block a Supreme Court nominee who opposes abortion rights.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said Specter assured him in a conversation Tuesday he would push for swift up-or-down votes on nominees without regard to their positions on abortion. Cornyn indicated he was satisfied by Specter's comments but wanted them expressed in an official statement.
Asked if he thought Specter would get the chairmanship, Cornyn said, "Today, yes, I do."
Cornyn also said Specter is seeking a meeting with Republicans on the judiciary panel next week to resolve doubts prompted by his comments last week suggesting that the Senate was unlikely to confirm nominees who would overturn the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide. Conservatives have flooded the Senate with protests, urging Republicans to reject Specter as chairman.
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Lol, very good.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) One of my Senators!! I already sent him and Hutchison emails about this.
Spector has been on Fox a lot lately trying to 'reassure'!!
That about sums it up.
Great work, Liberty.
What does this say about Senator Specter?
It's about time someone sent Specter a clear message:
YOU ARE NOT THE KING. YOU ARE MERELY A PUBLIC SERVANT, HIRED BY CITIZENS, YOUR ELECTORATE. YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, NOT THE DEMS, NOT SOCIALISTS, NOT ELITISTS, SO CLIMB OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE AND BACK OFF.
We worked long and hard to get President Bush a second term and we're NOT going to sit around and watch you shoot his candidates down.
NOW SHUT UP AND PLAY NICE!
Devolve, your scavenger hunts are always fascinating.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics/einhorn/
Ch. 2 explains what this is doing on a Specter thread.
REPUBLICANS!... blow in their ear, they'll follow you ANYWHERE..
I remember all of that so well from the movie and was so glad when they finally got him!
I don't remember GWB "promising"us. I do remember hearing him say a number of times,that he wanted to put on the bench men likeScalia and Thomas.
My thought is that Arlen Spector guided Ira Einhorn into a situation that allowed Einhorn to escape to Europe.
Same thing on Alex Kelly, a young serial rapist that was accompanied by a tall slim blonde former girlfriend at his trial after the FBI found the Kelly family in Darien had been sending Alex money in Europe to live like Marc Rich.
Another *"young fugitive" took off to Europe after killing a man for insurance.
*No more clues on that one; he was on AMW and finally caught and brought back to the US.
Here's the liberal game plan: As chairman, Specter will meet with the Democrats in the back room and by subterfuge find a way to block the conservative nominees. If he can’t bottle up pro-life candidates in committee, Specter will invite in the liberal groups that are expert at character assassination, and they are legion!
Will the Republicans then remove him as chairman? Not likely. They will continue to play the game the way they have in the past. Few Republicans have the killer instinct that Democrats do. Republicans always play nice. Democrats go for the throat.
Even though it was unheard of for alleged murderers awaiting trial to be granted a release on bail, Ira Einhorn was granted bail. His attorney, former district attorney and soon-to-be U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, had engineered a miracle. Says Lopez, "Bail was set at a staggeringly low $40,000, only $4,000 of it needed to walk free. It was paid by Barbara Bronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into the Seagram distillery family and met Einhorn through a common interest in the paranormal."
I replied earlier that I remembered that movie so well. So well that I didn't read into the second chapter where it mentions Specter as The Unicorn Killers attorney!!
Devolve, you have an unbelievable memory for facts!!
There is a Bronfman-Kennedy-Kerry connection.
How about the third case?
Involves a sports clothing business, a doctor, a ringer, flight to Europe by a young playboy like Alex Kelly did.
It was also on AMW.
Also a TV movie.
A mystery about a mystery -
RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHT
AND A VOW from Spectre
would be worth about as much as . . .
as used toilet paper.
Specter, God hath given you one face and you make yourself another............Hamlet
YUP!
GIVEN HIS CHEEKY-NESS . . .
HE'S beginning to look like nothing but
CHEEKS . . . flapping arses all over his body.
Are you assuming once Specter is made chairman he can never be removed until his term limit is up? I don't assume that. If he pulls what you suggest, he will be removed by the leadership; the committee will break down and all come to a screeching halt until Specter is dealt with.
The best course, I agree, is to get a really top conservative as chairman and not to bother with Specter. However, I don't know what the Senate and/or national political implications are of that. So I have to let them hash it out there.
Of course we let them know how we feel. Laura Ingraham said our protests have already put Specter in a bind; she seems to think he is stuck with making these vows and following through on them - OR ELSE. You might think he can make them, then violate them, and nothing will happen to stop him. I believe if he violates them, he will be stopped.
One thing we agree on, Specter is the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Oh, Arlen won't try, he'll do it. And his word isn't worth a tinker's dam. So if they take it, on their heads be it.
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