Specter adds more fuel to the fire

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

[Psalm 73]

"....many conservatives dislike for being too centrist."

We only WISH he was too centrist - Flaming Leftist is more like it, (even under "Scottish Law").

[freedomfiter2]

I'm ashamed Sphincter's from my state.

No he's not. He's just another carpetbager.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Its an outrage ! But it was predicted on this page months ago.

[Hank Rearden]

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.

You're just figuring this out now?

[America's Resolve]

ppppphhhbbbbbbttttt!!!

Very Eloquent! I agree wholeheartedly!

I can't believe the leadership let him have that chairmanship. They thought that he would be far left on abortion but far right on everything else??? They're morons then. We knew he wouldn't be.

Why bother to have a R majority in the Senate if we're just going to populate the leadership and chairmanships with leftys or SPINELESS, SQUISHY MODERATES??? I WANT FOAMING AT THE MOUTH RABID, RADICAL CONSERVATIVES IN THE LEADERSHIP!!!

Now they're going to require several bundles of dynamite to blast him out of that chairmanship. I could have told them THAT as well!

What a cluster****

[Spirited]

I doubt these posts are from people who are just figuring anything out. They have known, feared and even predicted this.

It means that they have been duped by the Party and more by W, Rove and the leadership who intend to keep the judiciary messed up and really are not going to take any of the lost tenets of the Constitution back.

Those of us who did not subscribe to the view of the opposition that W is stupid or inept now must recognize that what is happening is what was quite deliberately intended to happen, perhaps even planned.

[swheats]

I've read over and over how much of a scoundrel Spectre is. Can anybody tell me what will the GOP do about him? This is way over the line.

Dissappointment was the first thought when I heard Bush and Santoram was backing Spectre. But this is the ultimate stab in the back, hiring the 'architects' of a strategy to delay confirmation of judges.

This stinks and looks really bad.

[GrannyAnnie]

Whatever, God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Amen

[penowa]

"Spector - an enemy to the people."

He's no enemy of the Democrats. When he realized he was in trouble for re-election, he sold out to the Democrats. He had unions instruct their members to re-register as Republicans so they could vote for him in the primary against Toomey, made a deal with Rendell and the Senate Democrats to starve hapless Hoeffel of campaign funds, made a deal with the left-wing papers in Philly and P'burgh to get their endorsements, etc. in exchange for carrying the Democrat water after he was re-elected and installed by the stupid party as the chairman of Judiciary. Now we can sit back and watch Arlen repay the Democrats what he promised to deliver.

If I have figured this out, what does that say for the Republican senators or the White House? Looks to me like they are only too willing to go along to get along and just maybe Arlen is carrying water for them as well as the Democrats.

[Once-Ler]

“The fact that Republican money is being used to hire hardcore leftists to work on the Judiciary Committee is just a travesty,” a GOP aide said.

Oh! That explains this whole mess. Conservatives think it is their money, not the people's money. Not one Republican Senator or party spokesman has come out and voiced their "anger" at Specter. The story is diaper fill. It is scary to see how easy it is to push the buttons of the right fringe without actual quotes or attributions.

What will the right fringe do when Dubya's judges sail through? Moveon.org to another fake story...just like when their sky-is-falling-Dubya-wants-to-extend-the-AWB ranting was proven to be diaper fill. They conveniently forget that they are always wrong and turn up the volume of their screeching.

[hosepipe]

Spectre is a problem CAUSED by Frist..
Frist needs the heat and flames.. not Specter..
SPectre is and was a known quantity.. it is Frist that is the incompetent..
We need an actual "conservative" as majority leader..
Frist is NOW Spectre's proverbial "bitch"..

[Seadog Bytes]

[princess leah]

Well, I was all for MY senator, Jon Kyl, heading up the senate judiciary committee - but NOOOOO, somebody cut a deal way back in the primaries to keep this lOSER onboard...I was really hoping the democrat in PA would win over Spector! Atleast, he'd been out on his can and not doing THIS stuff to us...

[pointsal]

Heck Arlen is one !

[norton]

"And many conservatives view the NAACP as overtly partisan...."

HAH!
Snort!
snort again...

Gag.

Whoa, that hurt...

[demkicker]

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

I've got an idea. Let's fill in the blank as in:

I trust Arlen Specter as much as I would a __________

I've got two to add:
1. rattlesnake
2. hungry crocodile

[Seadog Bytes]

I'm with YOU, Princess.

[Zack Nguyen]

I hope that President Bush, Karl Rove and Rick Santorum are pleased with themselves. "Putting a moderate Republican" on the ticket in Pennsylvania was supposed to be the "only way" that President Bush "had a chance" to win Pennsylvania.

Well, they cut the legs out from under Toomey, lost Pennsylvania by five points, and now everyone in D.C is apparently outraged that Specter is doing what leftists do - making life difficult for anyone remotely pro-life and pro-family.

And when Specter causes more trouble and booby traps Bush's nominees, Bush and Rove will have no one to blame but themselves.

Sorry if I sound bitter (really I'm not) but the GOP continually, repeatedly, makes the same mistakes over and over again.

[Tench_Coxe]

Well, one wonders if the Republicans will be scratching their heads in 2008 when a large number of the constituency they're supposed to represent say, " Maybe we'll just sit this one out. "

[Zack Nguyen]

Specter is a centrist only to the media. To us, he's a radical leftist.