Posted on 11/12/2004 3:42:20 AM PST by Always Right
Thanks for your work. MRN
Thanks so much for your continued hard work with this thread.
And everyone, your efforts are great!
The birth canal is dialated and Specter's abortion is well under way... poetic justice.
I made my calls to Frist, Santorum, and the Judiciary Committee. Details to follow.
I saw that you left me a couple of posts on yesterday's board. When I return, I'll respond here.
I need a break. I've been on the computer for most of the day.
Bumping
Just the fact that Soros donated money to help re-elect Arlen Specter should be enough to convince everyone that Arlen should NOT be Chairman.
Soros is anti-conservative and anti-Republican. Yet he supports Arlen.
How much clearer a picture of Arlen can you get?
Mr. Specter, It's About Leadership
Arlen Specter is making the rounds on TV and radio as he remains in a fierce fight for chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The senator claims the whole question about his place on the committee is about abortion. Mr. Specter fails to understand that the public outcry is about much more than his aggressive pro-abortion position. It is about trust and judicial philosophy. The battle that is sure to engulf a nomination to the Supreme Court will require a chairman committed to the judicial philosophy of President Bush, who sees the role of the courts as simply applying the law. Sen. Specter wants judges who will interpret law to defend their own policy preferences.
The senator's activist philosophy perhaps would open the door to the redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples. A couple Republican senators have hinted that they might support Sen. Specter as chairman if he promises to support the president's nominees. That is untenable. The chairman hires almost all staff on the committee, and staff members reflect the views of the boss. Republicans can turn back a Specter chairmanship and choose someone more suitable if they have the will to do so. It will take political courage, but with the opportunities before us, we need leaders with courage, now more than ever! Call the Capitol switchboard--202-224-3131--and ask to speak to your Republican senator if you have one, or to Majority Leader Bill Frist if you do not.
Very good comments from FRCouncil.
You're right. This would definitely affect ALL issues that would go before the Supreme Court, and also the lower Federal Courts.
This is a very important fight that we must win...let's keep it before the Senators and all Republicans.
Dear Friend:
Thank you for contacting me regarding judicial nominations in the newly-elected session of Congress. It is an honor to serve in the United States Senate.
The Constitution's "advice and consent" clause clearly gives the Senate the prerogative to accept or reject any of the President's judicial nominations. Unfortunately, a minority of Senators have been using Senate rules to stop the confirmation of many of these nominees and thwart the will of the majority. Their unwise and dangerous efforts are unprecedented and must not be allowed to succeed. That is why I have taken several steps to address this attack on our Constitution and judicial system.
On June 5, 2003, I proposed a narrow change to Senate rules that would prohibit long term filibustering of judicial nominees. On November 12 - 14, 2003, I held the Senate in session for almost forty straight hours — the longest continuous debate in over 10 years — to force the minority to defend their actions.
I believe that the American voters sent a very clear and stunning message in the November 2, 2004, elections. That is why, as I begin work as Majority Leader in the 109th Congress, I will continue to work to ensure that President Bush's judicial nominees receive fair treatment. I am sure the President will continue to nominate judges who believe in protecting the rule of law, and I am confident that the Senate will be able to confirm these judges in the 109th Congress. Activist judges who make law instead of interpreting law undermine the rule of law. It is imperative that the Judiciary Committee approve the President’s judicial nominees and send them to the Senate floor for an up-or-down vote.
Rest assured, I will continue to fight for fair treatment of the President's judicial nominations. Anything less is unfair to the nominees, the President, the integrity of the judicial system and the American people.
Sincerely,
William H. Frist, M.D.
Majority Leader
United States Senate
Yeah, I got the same reply from Frist a couple of days ago.
If Sen. Frist really means business, he will greatly encourage the Repub members to select Senator Kyl as Chairman.
The proof will be in the end results.
Personally, I think Frist can be trusted more on this than BUSH. Bush has said nothing to allow himself wiggle room.
Whatever, we have to keep banging on doors. I have never felt this close to doing what we are all working on! Let's roll!
Specter is a shark. Sharks attack those that cannot defend themselves. At least, that is how I view Specter. As far as him being chair, I hope it is Specter.
Just had to add these comments by "Vicomte13" to this thread--please read the following:
"We believe that abortion is infanticide, and that a holocaust of infants is taking place. We do not believe that there is any other issue on earth that compares with this one is moral import. And therefore, there is no policy or combination of policies, including perfect tax policies, tort reform, and every other thing that is near and dear to Republican hearts, that matters a damn if abortion is overlooked and slid by.
We know that this issue has to be settled in the Supreme Court, nowhere else. And we know that the opportunity to put new justices on the court comes once a decade, maybe, and that the current opportunity to alter the complexion of the court is not going to come for a generation. Therefore, the real possibility exists that abortion can finally be seriously curtailed, by the Supreme Court changing Roe v. Wade or eliminating it.
IF, and ONLY IF, we can get pro-life judges on that court.
To do that, we have trusted the Republicans for years.
We just came out and voted for you again this time, in unprecedented numbers, because we are not stupid and we know what is at stake. Not just evangelicals either. The religious CATHOLIC vote went Republican this time, and they didn't do it because of trade policy or even gay marriage. The issue is abortion.
And the overriding issue is abortion.
So, if the Republicans allow Specter on the committee and he blocks pro-life nominees. Or if the Republicans do not use the nuclear option to override Democrat filibusters of pro-life nominees, THIS TIME there is no place for Republicans to hide. WE KNOW that you have the power, now, because WE just voted to give it to you. We understand that you can block Specter. And we understand the nuclear option.
And therefore, we most certainly will understand that if you allow the pro-life judges to be blocked, that it will be by you political CHOICE to do so. You CAN put them on, if you expend a lot of political capital. This will offend some people. A lot of people. And that is the price you HAVE to pay to get our votes next time. You have to be willing to bet the whole house to end infanticide.
If not, we will not vote for you.
We won't go running to vote for the Democrats: they're pro-abortion.
We won't go out and form a third party: we're not stupid and know that won't work.
We'll just stay home, just like we did in 2000.
Except that in 2000 it was out of frustration and neglect, and the lack of belief that anything will change.
This time, it's different. We understand the system, and we know that you have the power. And we demand that you use the power straight down the line to fill the high court and the appellate courts with judges who will protect the lives of babies.
Period.
This is not negotiable. At all. This is why we voted for you.
You have nothing to bargain with with us, and if you screw us, we will stay organized and we will stay home purposely to destroy the Republican party. Because if you do not protect the babies when you have the power to do it, you are no better than the Democrats...and worse, you will have lied to us.
This means, in effect, that all of those things YOU care about: taxation, immigration, trade and business policy, deregulation - all of those core issues that come as a package, are held hostage to our issue: babies. If you will not protect the babies, we will stay home and let the Democrats destroy everything else that YOU believe in.
This is called "Chicken".
It is called a "Mexican Standoff".
And since we are fired up by the certitude that we are doing God's work in defending babies, we cannot be bought, and you cannot win so much as an election for dog catcher in this country without us.
Therefore, the solution is simple and obvious: give us what we voted for you for. Give us pro-life judges. Use all of your power to do it. Sweep Specter out of the way: is he worth losing all the rest of your issues - because we really will stay home and throw the country to the Democrats if you're no better than they are on abortion, just to punish YOU for having betrayed us.
When the filibusters come, and they will come, use the nuclear option to override them. That will poison the Senate, yes. So what? We are talking about babies here. And with our votes, militantly mobilized because we are winning, alongside of yours, in 2006 and 2008 and beyond, even if the Senate is poisoned, you will be able to replace it.
That there is even a debate going on as to what to do with Specter is alarming, but we have had our hearts broken before, so we'll sit and pray and trust President Bush and Senator Frist and the Republicans to do the right thing.
Screw us, though, and we will turn on you and your whole agenda will go down the drain with the blood of the babies you wouldn't put your power on the line to save.
The easy solution, the win-win solution, is to BE as pro-life as you campaigned as being.
Just do it.
I apologize for the length of this post.
But it needed to be said.
The Republicans do not seem to get it.
They need to understand that we are more committed to saving babies than we are to the fortunes of the Republican Party.
That Specter is still in play demonstrates that too many of them do not take this seriously.
Rather than test us, what you guys should do is simply cave, now, and give us what we want.
Do that, and you wont hear from us again, because this is about the only religious issue that Catholics and Orthodox and Evangelicals AGREE on."
87 posted on 11/12/2004 6:41:26 PM CST by Vicomte13 (Auta i Lome!)
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