How many times can the delay tactic be used? Specter says it was already used when the hearings were rescheduled from January 2nd to January 9th.
There's a courtesy week. But Specter is not obligated to give these brain dead slugs anything else.
Specter says it was already used when the hearings were rescheduled from January 2nd to January 9th.
No, Specter agreed that they would begin a week later than's he'd intended (naively thinking that the democrats would be honest and concliliatory to him).
It is and has been obvious what the democrats were going to do. They're going to claim that Alito's answers have been "troubling" and that they need more time to read over the record further.
Translation: We want to get our game plan together to defeat this guy on the floor.
That was a gentleman's agreement and understanding. Specter does not have a written waiver of the right to the week delay from the members of the Committee was being consumed by shifting the start of hearings from the 2nd to the 9th.