Posted on 01/24/2005 7:31:36 AM PST by AliVeritas
On Friday Republican staffers in a number of Senate offices were holding meetings to discuss how to proceed with Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter and his recent hire, Hannibal G. Williams II Kemerer, who until recently was the NAACP's assistant general counsel. Kemerer was hired by Specter against the advice of senior Republican Judiciary staff and was to serve as a key vetter of Bush Administration judicial nominations. As word of Specter's hiring decision leaked off Capitol Hill, Specter is said to have shifted Kemerer into a job that would not deal with judicial nominations.
"That is not true," says a Judiciary Committee staffer. "Kemerer may have a different stated responsibility, but we've been told he will be working with Specter on judicial nomination issues regardless of what his stated role is supposed to be."
More disturbing than the hiring itself was Specter's willful behavior in hiring the left-wing litigator. "I wish I could say this was a one time, freak event," says another Judiciary Committee aide. "But I don't think I can. We got the distinct impression that Specter is going to continue to hire people like this. If conservatives care, they need to mobilize now. Because it's largely out of our hands."
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As a former Santorum voter and contributor, I hope he loses.
Furthermore, Specter cut a backroom deal with the editorial board of the Philadelphia Inquirer that in exchange for their endorsement of his reelection, he would do everything possible to keep pro-life judicial nominees from being approved, and I believe he has every intention of keeping his end of this Faustian bargain. He's out for himself and doesn't care a whit about President Bush or the at-large Republican party.
Pre-Toomey, I have suggested that Santorum or McConnell be Majority Leader instead of Frist who is as spineless as Trent Lott - now Post-Toomey, I would not support Santorum for anything (except maybe re-election against a Rendell, etc.) He went for political convenience instead of the principles he heretofore promoted.
Hiring anybody named Hannibal gives me the buckwheats, anyway.
"Casey is a pro life Democrat and he will carry the state..........big time"
Didn't Casey support John Kerry?
Santorum supported Specter.
What's the difference?
I doubt very much whether the Repub aids are going to remain silent on this one.
Regarding #40, please watch your language.
Last time I was in Scotland, I had haggis. With a little catsup it ain't all that bad. So please, no more be-rating haggis by comparing it to Arlen Specter!!
Wasn't it his father (now deceased) who was banned from speaking at the Dem convention?
Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize he had passed. Is the Son similar to the Father?
Also President Bush and so called Republican leadership chose the Oklahoma City mayor over the more conservative senate winner TOM COBURN.
Don't know much about either, except for the pro-life Democrat part. I did see an interview with the father years ago; he seemed like a reasonable sort, and I suspect (he was a devout and traditional Catholic) he would reject at least some of the loonier left positions required by Dems today.
(Is there a reason for your capitalization of "Father" and "Son" -- it makes me feel like I'm at the Nicene Council LOL!)
bttt
Bush and the republican party are anything but conservative.
Simply put...they are party republicans. Appears the republican isn't a place for conservatives these days.
Santorum brought this on himself by supporting a liberal over a conseravtive.
I have little sympathy for him.
Big frickin' deal. He also voted against impeaching The Bent One.
Yeah, and if we all start blackmailing our own, before we even know it, the Democrats are back in power.
Start supporting your fringe candidate. Stop waiting until the last minute.
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