Posted on 10/29/2004 3:06:03 PM PDT by zzen01
Yes, that is my thought also. As you can probably tell by my lack of memory, he made quite an impression.
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Spinchter is the dasshole of Pennsylvania.
So did Santoru,..it's an unwritten rule, I guess..I wrote here months ago, during the primary, that in return for the support of Bush and Santorum, Spector had agreed NOT to take the SJC chair..Look..we're gonnahave 2-3 SC jnominations..bloody committee and floor fights...the Senate GOP may go nuclear, and Spector is NOT the guy to lead that.. There is NO way that Frist and other GOP senators would allow that..so, loom for Arlen to step aside..
Many of us are voting for Clymer, but big labor is also backing Specter (even over the Democrat, Hoeffel). No matter what the outcome, the Republican leadership needs to take the rare--but not unprecedented--step of telling Specter he will not be appointed chairman of the Judiciary Committee. If he jumps parties as a result, so be it.
Specter is the Republican most responsible for blocking Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court. If not for him, many decisions buttressed by the genuinely incoherent Anthony Kennedy would never have seen the light of day.
My guess is that Specter has already been told that he would not get the chairmanship of the judiciary committee that he was in line for. This threat is pay back, most likely.
What I remember of this guy, is that he is self-centered and in it only for himself.
Isn't there an indepedent running???
This line of thinking worked in reverse in New Jersey in 2002. When the state Democratic machine pulled its stunt to replace Torricelli with Lautenberg after the ballot deadline, the national GOP party was strangely silent about it -- in a year when control of the Senate was up in the air, no less!
With two Democratic senators in New Jersey and two GOP senators in Pennsylvania, it becomes very easy for the national Republican leadership to really screw one state in the Federal appropriations process while heaping all sorts of financial largesse on the other. For example . . . I can practically guarantee you that New Jersey will get the shaft when it comes to the next round of military base closings; the state's two Democratic senators won't have a single friend in Washington for them to influence in the process.
This is precisely why there weren't too many tears shed in the "Red States" when Rick Lazio lost to Hillary Clinton in the 2000 New York senate race.
What he needs is a "magic bullet."
there's gratitude for ya!
Heck with it. I'm voting Clymer.
Apparently the wise Karl Rove didn't know he shouldn't trust this lying creep.
In practical terms, did he ever really change parties? His lifetime ACU rating is 43. That puts him behind some Democrats (for example John Breaux). That lifetime rating has actually been increased by his ratings in 2002 (50) and 2003 (63), because, as he is want to do, Specter always cleans up his act in the contract renewal year.
Belonged to the Dems every since he signed off on magic bullet.
"Before the Post-Gazette editorial board, he promised that no extremists would be approved for the bench."
Hoeffel is an idiot. Not saying Specter is anything but electing Hoeffel is electing an empty chair. Remember what counts in the senate.
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