Frist: Specter Must Prove Himself for Judiciary Post

They're not through with Arlen Specter yet. Senator Frist made that comment on Fox News Sunday only yesterday (November 14, 2004). Obviously Frist has been feeling the heat, not just from Tennessee but from all over the country, or he never would have appeared on any Sunday talk show. Typically (for a politician generally) he refused to say whether he would recommend for or against Specter as the next Chairman at Judiciary--only that Specter must make a good case to the Republican Senate caucus. (Actually, he must make it to his fellow members of the Judiciary Committee, and that means those who will serve on that Committee next term--and the Senate hasn't even decided yet how many Republicans and how many Democrats will sit on it.)

Neither has Frist forgotten his more important mission: to gain cloture on President Bush's judicial nominations.