Posted on 11/03/2004 3:10:39 PM PST by CrosscutSaw
The Republican expected to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee next year bluntly warned newly re-elected President Bush on Wednesday against putting forth Supreme Court nominees who would seek to overturn abortion rights or are otherwise too conservative to win confirmation.
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We won the election by a massive turnout of the Republican base. We must not let a RINO thwart our victory.
RINO alert!
Frist can just circumvent the committee and bring a nominee to the floor.
It's his right under Scottish Law, you know...
Email Frist.
How can we help prevent Specter from doing this?
He has to go.
Yeah, that can ruin your day.
go ahead--we'll take your Senate seat, too...
Presumptive little son of a bitch, isn't he?
This election is NOT DONE. At least we FReepers are not done yet. We must - absolutely must - ensure that Specter is not appointed Senate Judiciary Chairman.
I lack the kind of information needed to get something rolling. If anyone is knowledgeable about the appointment process and what we might be able to do to stop it, please post here.
Ok How do we stop snarlin arlen??????I am ready for the fight............
A worthy cause. Any ideas on how we can help that along?
This guy has got to get his mind right.
LOL - would he understand after the stab? I know it's not funny.
he can do whatver he wants, the senate judiciary committee chair did not win the EV and PV
Lock,stock, and barrel belongs to democrats since Warren Commission.
OH no ya dont Sen. Specter......not now not ever again! Your scum bag friends are gone and conservatives are not going to sit by any longer....
What an arroagant SOB- if it weren't for GWB- he wouldn't have held his seat in PA. Ya know- if it meant we lost a RINO- I wouldn't mind if he went over to the Democrats. He IS one in deed and mind.
No kidding! Specter needs a trip to the woodshed behind the White House with Bush & Frist.
I figured Specter would try to make a power play.
How can somebody else become chairman?
Even if he tries to pull some crap, Dubya would be the real Senate Judiciary Comm chairman and would pretty much overpower him.
With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?
According to "The Peter Principle", it might be possible to move him sideways to another committee where he could do less damage.
Frist makes committee assignments... I suggest writing to Frist and suggesting that Spector be assigned to the Underwater Basketweaving Committee, and nothing else.
Too late....he's lost his mind.....
Trent Lott just on John Gibson, saying that they are going to have to bring up a test of this "cloture" crap early next session before we get a real battle over a SCOTUS judge. Trent seemed determine not to let this stuff continue.
If its not one thing its another.
Under Scottish law, can't we throw his worthless rear end of the the judiciary committee room?
Spectre (Like Bond) did nothting to help Bush. I would tell him to pound the sands of allah!
Yes, but should we also include a suggestion as to who we would like to see?
I am inspired by Bush's mandate.
FREEPERS:
Stop SPECTER!!!
I will raise hell. I for one WILL NOT be cowed into a liberal agenda after such a big win. We need to tap into the Delay's of the Republican party to call on the president and all conservatives to give them hell up there on the hill. UNBELIEVABLE!!
Uhhh...take him to Disneyland and get him stuck in some of the lines on the day the position is to be filled?
O.K. Here's an analysis that I'd like to see. During President Bush's first term, a small proportion of his judicial nominees were turned back because they were portrayed as having extreme viewpoints. Much was made of this for a while.
Of those Senators that opposed the President in this matter that were up for re-election, how many of them won or lost? And for how many of them was this an election issue?
Regardless of Senator Spector's motives on this, what kind of political traction does this issue provide? If President Bush pushes a nominee that becomes portrayed (fairly or not) as having extreme views, and the issue comes down to a cloture vote, is it likely to hurt or help him? Is it likely to hurt or help the Senators involved (since some of them will be facing election 2 years from now)? Can we draw any conclusions on these questions based on the Senatorial elections that have just occurred?
Is this not the same man who almost lost his seat last night? Thought so.
Can honestly say we would have been better off taking our chances with a democrat on that one. Now he is safe for another 4 years. Makes me want to puke.
A former district attorney, Specter also bemoaned what he called the lack of any current justices comparable to legal heavyweights like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo and Thurgood Marshall, "who were giants of the Supreme Court." "With all due respect to the (current) U.S. Supreme Court, we don't have one," he said.GAG!
LOL re: coathanger.
I can afford to do that thanks to the Bush tax cut.
As I recall, this chucklehead voted AGAINST impeachment for Clinton.
That did it, warning the President on anything should cost this SOB his chairmanship.
Senator Bill Frist
461 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3344
FAX: (202)228-1264
Web Contact Form - he doesn't have an email address. Also, he may only pay attention to your message if he thinks it is from Tennessee. It is up to you what you want to put in your contact information box.
. . . or just suck his brains out.
Didn't somebody already do that?
Senawhore Sphincter is an idiot.
I seem to recall a point of Scottish law (yes! really! -- at least in the eighteenth century) mentioned by Samuel Johnson -- that if the state will not, e.g., punish the murderer of your daughter, you are entitled to do it yourself.
Hey, Arlen's the one who's so crazy about Scottish law.
"likely?" Means he doesn't have the job now? Then why would anyone give it to him? Too bad more support wasn't thrown to the Republican who opposed him in the primary. I think he's a Dem in sheeps clothing.
Wasn't it spector who got some interventionist support from bush when he was running against a conservative in the primary?
Brains? Spector? Please, not in the same sentence.
Who the hell does Spector think he is, trying to ruin the most magical moment thusfar of this century?
Ditch him!
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