Specter adds more fuel to the fire

The Hill ^ | 1-26-05 | Alexander Bolton

[Piquaboy]

I trust him as much as I would a rabid dog.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...The fact that Republican money is being used to hire hardcore leftists to work on the Judiciary Committee is just a travesty...

[snowman1]

Real screwup giving the chair to Spector

[Antoninus]

Senate Democrats have asked for new hearings on the resubmitted nominees, something conservatives criticize as an unnecessary delaying tactic. For his part, Specter has not taken a position on whether he will hold new hearings for the recycled nominees.

If nothing is done about this scoundrel, I'm going to have to assume that the GOP approves of his traitorous actions and is just paying lip-service the social conservatives in this country.

Specter needs to be forced out NOW!

[PeterFinn]

And here's to all those hacks who said we could trust Specter: ppppphhhbbbbbbttttt!!!

[Just mythoughts]

Spector - an enemy to the people.

[Liberty Valance]

Specter needs to be urged to change party affiliation immediately. We really don't want him in the GOP.

[Lazamataz]

In less than a month, new Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has already exasperated social conservatives and frightened members of the business community with controversial staff hires, statements and policy positions. The start of Specter’s tenure as chairman, following a blow-up last year over public comments he made questioning the confirmation of anti-abortion-rights judicial nominees, may augur a rocky future for Specter, whom many conservatives dislike for being too centrist.

Specter is a LIDAR.

Liberal In Disguise As a Republican.

[leprechaun9]

The Spectre of this senator is frightening!

[7.62 x 51mm]

Arlie Sphincter (LIBERAL-PA) is a scumbag. I voted for Toomey in the primary. I'm ashamed Sphincter's from my state.

[Cicero]

What I said before. It would have been a lot easier to keep him out of the chairmanship than it will be to remove him from the chairmanship. The longer they wait, the harder it will be. Bush will now have to expend considerable political capital to remove him, capital that would have been better used on the judicial appointments themselves.

Moreover, Karl Rove and G. W. Bush are responsible for Specter being there. Without their intervention in Ohio, he never would have won the primary. Nor would the senate leadership have given him this post without Bush's tacit agreement.

Even if Specter does nothing but delay judicial appointments, that will be critical. We have only four years to push them through. Or, if he screws up badly enough, only two years, because Sp;ecter is now in a position to bring down the whole Bush presidency if he chooses. Bush will get the blame, and rightly so, for whatever damage Specter does.

I said at the time they had better have him on a very tight leash. Obviously they don't.

[garyhope]

I'll always remember and resent Spector as Ira Einhorn's defense lawyer after Eihhorn murdered Holly Maddux and stuffed her body in a trunk. Einhorn then spent 20+ years living off women and swilling wine and cheese in the French countryside as a protected guest.

[Malesherbes]

Oh, now I understand, the problem with Snarlin' Arlen is that he is "too centrist."

[kingattax]

Despite thousands and thousands of phone calls to his office and emails, Sen Frist refused to act to prevent Specter from chairing the judiciary committee.

I imagine many people like the good doctor, but as far as I'm concerned Frist is a worse version of Lott and i find any talk of Frist running for president extremely laughable.

[big bad easter bunny]

Under Irish law I think we are allowed to give him a good flogging!

[bigjoesaddle]

My first band was named "Spectre"! Yeaaa...ROCK-N-ROLL!

[Marysecretary]

Yeah, me too!