Posted on 11/04/2004 3:56:03 AM PST by joesbucks
And the house cleaning battle continues.
Deserves repeating!
Two threads, about 300 replies. I will add you to the ping list.
Saw your posts on the other Specter thread. Thought you'd be interested in this.
CONTACT BILL FRIST
Say NO to Spectre for committee chairman!
Frist, Bill - (R - TN)
461 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-3344
Web Form (email):
frist.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenatorFrist.ContactForm
BTTT!!!!!!
I still think he will be able to thats why I voted for him......Spectre is a Spinchter....phucm !
With Republicans like him who needs democrats.
We could hope that the public statements don't quite match the behind the scenes deal. Specter's public approval of a future nominee could provide the media evidence that the nominee is moderate enough to overcome a filibuster or help change the Senate rules in order to gain approval.
No, we have to turn our guns on Frist. Specter, by his failure to deliver Pennsylvania and his capriciousness toward the President, has earned being focibly removed from his post. Rove made a big mistake in not supporting Toomey.
My guess is that Specter is hedging his bets. Now that the GOP has the whole ball of wax, they have no more excuses if we go into 2006 with a weak economy, a continuing mess in Iraq, etc. The result could be like 1994 in reverse (the Democrats come roaring back in the midterms).
If that comes to pass, Specter wants to be positioned to call in some favors from across the aisle.
What a great campaign slogan to say that their partisanship has damaged the Court...
exactly.I'm in pa and i voted for hoffel just to try to oust specter. Now i get flamed. lol
I voted for Clymer.
Interesting..There's a lot to digest there..but U are so right as to the the 2 Maine Rino's...Im ready to unite with the Dems to get opposition against them...Id rather elect an honest Dem then a dishonest Pub...(time for the hash slinger and milk maid to go back to their regular occupations)
Maybe someone needs to remind him about what happened to Daschle.
These people just don't get it. People like myself are tired of electing Senators and Reps. and getting shafted by them.
The only problem with doing that is it wasn't likly to oust Specter.
I am in the DC environs right now on a bike trip with a girlfriend -- we are planning to bike the C&O Canal Towpath, through West Virginia/Virginia/Maryland/DC in the early Spring, and came down here this weekend to do a partial practice run, and to unwind from election stuff. Shes as early-to-bed gal, so I am left with no companionship but my trusty laptop. :)
More than half a million Pennsylvanians foresaw the current major crisis that is facing us regarding the potential appointment of Arlen Specter as chair of the senate Judiciary Committee. Thats why, despite big money/strong-arm tactics/profligate lies/temporary democrat primary registration crossovers (all committed by the Specter forces alone), Pat Toomey, a virtual unknown, came within 1.5% of winning the Pennsylvania Republican senate nomination in April. The four-term incumbent Specter won by a mere 16,000 votes, with more than one million votes cast. And Toomey would have won by a comfortable margin, had the President and our junior senator placed principle before political protocol and endorsed him rather than his unworthy opponent, who sports a long history of deceit and betrayal.
I am also certain that Toomey would have won the senate seat handily on Tuesday, and not only would we not be faced with the specter of a Specter chairmanship of Judiciary, but we would have a junior senator with major Reagan-esque leanings sitting in one of Pennsylvanias senate seats. But, as they say, thats water under the bridge. I simply hope that President Bush now has a new, and exquisitely personal, understanding of the phrase biting the hand that feeds you. Arlen Specter has one mean and powerful bite.
To those Pennsylvanians who have followed Specters infamous four-term career, it reads like an immutable script: (1) enter, stage right, having counted on moderates and conservatives to return you to the stage to begin with; (2) spend about five and a half years moving consistently stage left, while arrogantly defending yourself against those who, dutifully and sincerely, remind you that you are not playing the role you were cast to play; and then (3) half-heartedly meander back toward the right for the six months preceding your next re-election bid, hoping that the move right will eclipse the previous five and a half years of leftist role-playing. It always worked until Pat Toomey shined a spotlight on the shenanigans. Were wise to you now, Arlen. And its a good thing for you this is most likely your last term. Toomey would defeat you resoundingly in 2010.
Specters duplicity dates back to the mid-1960s, when he sat on the Warren Commission and formulated the single-bullet theory to explain Oswalds assassination of JFK. There are many right-minded people who believe he is responsible for a major cover-up of that crime, and its ramifications.
Around twenty years later, when Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions (who now providentially/coincidentally sits on the Judiciary Committee with Arlen) for a federal judgeship, Specter betrayed his constituents by voting with the democrats in killing the nomination. This betrayal marked the beginning of the now-common act of killing the nominations of those with whom you dont share a political ideology and the Constitution be damned. Before Sessions defeat, a federal judicial nominee had only been turned down once in the four decades since the Roosevelt administration. So Arlen Specter effectively set the stage for politicized judicial confirmations a mighty arrogant, and toxic, unconstitutional precedent that laid the groundwork for the awarding of judgeships based on leftist political ideology.
And Arlen continued wielding his leftist-agenda-driven power the following year, when Reagan nominated Robert Bork to sit on the Supreme Court. Bork had a sterling resume as a judge, and a Yale law professor (one needs only read his Slouching Towards Gomorrah to comprehend the sheer genius, judicial purity, and uncompromising allegiance to the Constitution that this giant of a man represents). Specter played a major role in Borks defeat, and I, for one, will never forgive him for his vicious character assassination of a man whose shoes he isnt fit to shine.
Some believe that Specter regained his principles (although its difficult to regain that which one never possessed to begin with) when he defended Clarence Thomas against the lefts attacks in 1991. But one only needs to look at the timing of the Thomas hearings to understand Specters newfound fairness. The hearings occurred less than a year before Specters next re-election bid. Too little time to erase from the memory of conservative Pennsylvanians yet another betrayal. So he was forced to do what was right simply because of the timing of the hearings.
Specters final betrayal occurred during the Clinton senate impeachment trial in 1998, during which he could have played a major role in ridding us of the most immoral, treasonous, criminal President we have ever known. Instead, he effectively ignored the US Constitution, and instead relied on (purported) Scottish Law to allow the President to continue his reign of horror. He asserted that under the venerable Scottish Law (which appears to trump the American Constitution), there are three possible verdicts in an impeachment trial: guilty, not guilty, and not proven. Voting not proven (and enjoying the dubious distinction of being the only senator to do so) allowed him a cowardly retreat from alienating either his genuine leftist base, or the conservative/moderate supporters he needed to fool, yet again.
Chief Justice Rehnquist was so taken aback by the stupidity of Specters argument that he ordered Specters verdict to be recorded as not guilty.
Arlen Specters crimes against our republic have been many. But I believe the four above are the most grievous. He should not even be sitting in the US Senate, much less chairing the committee that will have enormous impact on the seating of federal judges, in an era in which activist judges have assumed the arrogant role of declaring the Constitution irrelevant when it comes to matters of leftist societal engineering.
As I see it, the two most uplifting results of Tuesdays election are (1) that we can now hope to enjoy four more years of effective national leadership, where the war on terror -- the most important issue of our, or any, time -- is concerned, and (2) that we also have a President in office who will nominate conservative judges to the Supreme Court, so that the court will take a much needed turn to the right, and place the Constitution back on the lofty pedestal where it rightly belongs.
I urge every American to call (letters, petitions, and e-mails are not as effective) your own state senators, Majority Leader Frist, and the President, and share your gnawing concerns about the long-term disastrous effect that a Specter chairmanship would have on the moral/societal fabric of our republic during a time when we should be rebuilding, not further dismantling.
~ joanie
We can always hope that he dies soon ;^)
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