Arlen just slammed the door on The Swimmer and left him impotent.
There went the morale of all the libs on the committee.....their great hero and icon, the venerable Teddy-boy, was reduced to a mound of evaporating blubber.
IMO, this incident is a turning point, and Specter is responsible for it. I have to hand it to the guy. This exchange is the one that will be shown tonight.....and all of Teddy's bloviating points against the judge will be lost in space.
Memo to the DC Sandwich King......don't mess with that long-time, experienced, wily old prosecutor/defense attorney, Arlen Specter.
You won't win. Plus, he holds the gavel, heheh.
Leni
It should be interesting to see how the MSM tries to spin this exchange.
It's times like these when I almost understand why the president supported Specter's re-election.
Specter was saving face, IMHO, he couldn't look like an impotent chairman. Therefore, it had no choice but to slap him down.
For a minute there, I thought Senator "I'll Have a Doddwich to Go!" was about to pop his brain cell.
We just witnessed a DC-dick-waving contest -- something rarely if ever done in public, something we're not likely to witness again very often, or very soon.
It takes a lot for one A/H to provoke another with the cameras rolling live.