Posted on 11/09/2004 10:24:04 PM PST by churchillbuff
From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
"The best argument for his staying on is his seniority, which puts him in line to be the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In that capacity, he would be in a position to block some of the ideologically extreme federal judges likely to be nominated by President Bush in a second term, some of them for the Supreme Court. Before the Post-Gazette editorial board, he promised that no extremists would be approved for the bench."
The harder we campaign against Specter the better chance we have of keeping him out of the chairmans seat.
* Motivational Ping *
extremist = Liberalspeak for a judge that doesn't "create" law by judicial fiat.
My husband bought a Newsweek with a picture of George thinking it would be a present for me.
I tried to read it, but *gag* it just made me sick.
And now this news about Spectre.
I need a shower.
What does it tell you when Rush says that the Specter flap is "much ado about nothing" and not to worry about it because Specter can do no harm in that position...
It tells me Rush is now a...RINO.
Kind of curious why you keep reposting this old story?
He led the charge against Bork. What does that tell you?
No big bucks there though!
You should live by your own tag line
Ignorance of the truth is no excuse for stupidity.)
before posting this sort of inane comment
"It tells me Rush is now a...RINO."
No he's not a "republican in name only" -- he's a "republican right or wrong"; whatever the party bigwigs do or decide, he's on the radio the next day flaking for them, even if it means defending a senator who trashed Reagan's finest nominee for the Supreme Court (Bork). I don't listen to Rush. If I want the press releases from Republican headquarters, I can get them online and read them quickly and be about my business. Spending three hours listening to him give his own, elongated version of those press releases, is a waste of my time.
I quit listening to Rush about a year before he lost his hearing.
What do you mean, "keep reposting"? It's the first time I've posted it. And if you can see why it's relevant to the debate over specter's fitness to be a republican chairman of the judiciary committee, I can't do anything for you.
Rush is the eternal optimist. He speaks to a crowd with a breadth of ideology covering the full spectrum. I am confident he will be happy with the result of our efforts, whatever they are. That's the kind of person Rush is.
Oh please .. get real
Dear Senator Frist,
Since you are Senate Majority leader, I am sending this request to you as well as to my Senators.
Please follow the Constitution and introduce a new rule which would require a floor vote for all presidential nominations within a reasonable period for debate. A filibuster on a nomination is contrary to the Constitution. The duty of the Senate is to advise and consent(or non-consent) to presidential nominations. If a filibuster is a non-consent it is certainly against the Constitution since only treaties require a super-majority in the advice and consent role of the Senate. If it is not a non-consent, it is either a lack of performance of the Senate of its duties or by logic is a consent by default. Filibusters on other matters of the Senate would seem to be perfectly acceptable, since that action would not appear to negate provisions of the Constitution.
Since it is not sufficient for a qualified presidential nominee to receive the consent of the Senate to that nominee's final appointment, I can hardly see the justification for any Senator to expect assignment to critical positions in Senate committees routinely. Please consider the voters expectations in the choice of the chairman of the Judiciary committee.
Thank you,
Andrew C
All the Rush-trashers on FR seem to forget that Rush was quite critical of Bush when he passed the Medicare crap and all that...
Kind of curious why you keep reposting this old story?"
What do you mean, "keep reposting"? It's the first time I've posted it. And if you can see why it's relevant to the debate over specter's fitness to be a republican chairman of the judiciary committee, I can't do anything for you
Actually this is the second or third time you posted connecting via different websites back to this week old original article. Rather the posting and reposting the same old crap why don't you join some of the NEW threads where people are ACTUALLY doing something about Specter?
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