Posted on 11/14/2004 9:24:50 PM PST by Former Military Chick
ASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - Senator Bill Frist, the Republican majority leader, said Sunday that he was troubled by Senator Arlen Specter's recent remarks about potential judicial nominees and that Mr. Specter needed to convince his fellow Republicans that he deserved to be chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"Arlen made some statements the day after the election," Dr. Frist, of Tennessee, said on "Fox News Sunday" in an interview with Chris Wallace. "They were disheartening to me; they were disheartening to a lot of people."
Mr. Specter said just after he won re-election that Supreme Court nominees who wanted to undo abortion rights would face tough confirmation fights in the Senate. Those remarks, in keeping with Mr. Specter's support of abortion rights and with his maverick personality, put him at odds with conservative Republicans and annoyed the White House.
Mr. Specter tried Sunday to ease the concerns of his party, saying in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News program "This Week" that he had never required "a litmus test" for Supreme Court nominees. "The record is conclusive that I have never done that," he said.
Mr. Specter wants and is in line for the Judiciary post when Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah steps down because of Republican rules limiting the terms of chairmen.
Dr. Frist pointedly declined to endorse Mr. Specter for the post on Sunday, saying the Pennsylvania senator should lobby his Republican colleagues in the Senate's lame-duck session this week. "The case needs to be made to the leadership of the United States Senate," Dr. Frist said, "and also to the existing members of the Judiciary Committee."
Mr. Specter did pick up some support on Sunday. Senator Richard G. Lugar, Republican of Indiana, said he backed Mr. Specter but mainly because of Senate rules. "If Republicans decide they want to change of all them, that's a different situation," Mr. Lugar said in an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN. "But they haven't, and therefore Specter ought to be the chairman."
Another Republican, Senator John McCain of Arizona, said on "This Week" that he backed Mr. Specter without reservation. "I believe that Arlen has done a good job," Mr. McCain said. "I think he'll be confirmed."
I did not oppose him in his reelection, he needs to watch what he says, cuz he is pissing me off in more ways than one.
Ain't it funny how the Leftists refer to whackjobs on their side as a "maverick personality," but those who stand up for morality are "crazed, angry ultra-conservatives"?
FMC, I've been waiting to bang Specter like a cheap gong ever since he cited Scottish law in his vote against nailing Clinton. I wish I could be there to see the look on his face when he's denied the post on the judicial committee he thought he had sealed up.
GRASSROOTSPA CALL TO ACTION
STOP SPECTER FROM BLOCKING BUSH'S JUDGES
Contact Senator Frist
202-224-3135
Contact Senator Santorum
202-224-6324
Tell them in no uncertain terms that Specter cannot be made Senate Judiciary Chairman
Do NOT take "no" for an answer!
Bush has no Mandate?
Just say "NO" To Specter's Games!
Senate Judiciary Committee GOP Members
Contact Senator Orrin Hatch
202-224-5251
Contact Senator Charles Grassley
202-224-3744
Contact Senator Jon Kyl
202-224-4521
Contact Senator Mike DeWine
202-224-2315
Contact Senator Jeff Sessions
202-224-4124
Contact Senator Lindsey Graham
202-224-5972
Contact Senator Larry Craig
202-224-2752
Contact Senator Saxby Chambliss
202-224-3521
Contact Senator John Cornyn
202-224-2934
If you need to keep re-posting that, please post it to "All" instead of me. I've got three copies of it in my pings already. I support the cause, but getting repeatedly spammed with this stuff is annoying.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
Frist is wrong. Specter could swear on a stack and I don't happen to know anyone who would believe him.
Since the election we have already gained a pro-abort AG.
I'm beginning to wonder whether by "born again" Bush meant the experience by that name through which both he and Kerry went in the Bones rites.
A stack of what? Aborted babies? Trial lawyer cash? Scottish Haggis?
The accusation is a steaming pile. He upheld the law, exactly what conservatives are demanding an Attorney General do.
Specter, Lugar, McCain...
What a sorry-azz trio.
Bush won. Get over it.
As good a proof as anything else that Specter plans on screwing us is that liberals like McCain and Lugar stood up for him. Maybe next he'll trot out a Clinton endorsment...
Vote NO!!!! for Arlen Sphincter!!!!.....
Want to bang another gong?
In an article last week, Arlen took 100% credit for being the main proponent and "author" of the idiotic, moronic, implausible; Single Bullet Theory of the Warren Commission.
Yep it was Arlen who invented new laws of physics to explain that pristine bullet found on the gurney in the hall of Parkland Hospital.
And to think, for all these years Gerald Ford was taking the heat for that idiotic conclusion. Boy do 'we' owe him an apology :-)
As another senior Republican who criticizes other Republicans, the MSM will make Arlen a star as they did with "maverick" McCain.
But they completely ignored Zell Miller's years of criticism of the Democrats.
When you're a Republican who criticizes Republicans, the MSM labels you a maverick and makes you a star. When you're a Democrat who criticizes Democrats, the MSM pretends you don't exist.
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