WorldNetDaily: Movement arises to block Specter
What did I tell everybody? The movement to stop Arlen Specter from becoming chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary is gathering more steam by the minute, it would seem. WorldNetDaily's excellent article even has a link to Arlen Specter's admission of why he became a Republican to begin with: because the Republicans offered him better support than did the Democrats back in 1965, when first he ran for District Attorney in his county. (I used to live in Pennsylvania in those days, and I remember this slogan: "Vote straight Republican, for the Specter Team!" Those Republicans pulled out all the stops for this man, and he has played them for suckers for nigh on forty years.) Most importantly is this link to a petition to the powers-that-be to find a better Judiciary chairman than Specter.
For everyone's information, petitioning the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee--or FAXing them, which will cost you nine bucks--is definitely the right idea. As the WND article points out, "seniority" is not, strictly speaking, an automatic "in" for someone to be Chairman. Rather, the members of each party on any Standing Committee of the Senate choose their respective chairman or ranking member by secret ballot, and then the question goes to the full caucus.
And now my comments: I'm not buying Arlen Specter's denials that he warned the President not to send him any judge candidates opposed to abortion. The overwhelming evidence, from NewsMax.com's archives, is that Specter never intended to support the President in anything. See here, and here. And Rick Santorum hasn't improved matters by constantly sticking up for Specter. Sorry, Rick, but friendship has to take a back seat to the truth sometimes. Jesus Christ Himself once said that even family relationships have to take a back seat to the Truth.
I'll say it bluntly: Senator Arlen Specter is a liar, a cheat, and a taker of bribes. These are not the traditional black-briefcase-handcuffed-to-the-wrist bribes, but are bribes of another kind: who will support him this week? Too bad he's done nothing that merits throwing him out of the Senate, as at least one commentator--whose name escapes me at the moment--has called for. But he not only shouldn't be chairman of Judiciary, but if I were the floor leader, I would yank him off that committee entirely. Don't believe any of his denials. He will say anything, do anything to protect whatever spot he wants to gain or keep, and he has betrayed Republicans too often to count. Senator Hugh Scott (R-PA), back in 1965, should never have supported him in that DA's race--and that "Specter Team" slogan of his, back in the late Sixties, now stands as the height of hypocrisy today.
UPDATE: Now James Dobson is getting into the act--and high time!
FURTHER UPDATE: Cassandra is on board, and likewise The Spoons Experience and Captain's Quarters. Let's get this rolling!
For everyone's information, petitioning the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee--or FAXing them, which will cost you nine bucks--is definitely the right idea. As the WND article points out, "seniority" is not, strictly speaking, an automatic "in" for someone to be Chairman. Rather, the members of each party on any Standing Committee of the Senate choose their respective chairman or ranking member by secret ballot, and then the question goes to the full caucus.
And now my comments: I'm not buying Arlen Specter's denials that he warned the President not to send him any judge candidates opposed to abortion. The overwhelming evidence, from NewsMax.com's archives, is that Specter never intended to support the President in anything. See here, and here. And Rick Santorum hasn't improved matters by constantly sticking up for Specter. Sorry, Rick, but friendship has to take a back seat to the truth sometimes. Jesus Christ Himself once said that even family relationships have to take a back seat to the Truth.
I'll say it bluntly: Senator Arlen Specter is a liar, a cheat, and a taker of bribes. These are not the traditional black-briefcase-handcuffed-to-the-wrist bribes, but are bribes of another kind: who will support him this week? Too bad he's done nothing that merits throwing him out of the Senate, as at least one commentator--whose name escapes me at the moment--has called for. But he not only shouldn't be chairman of Judiciary, but if I were the floor leader, I would yank him off that committee entirely. Don't believe any of his denials. He will say anything, do anything to protect whatever spot he wants to gain or keep, and he has betrayed Republicans too often to count. Senator Hugh Scott (R-PA), back in 1965, should never have supported him in that DA's race--and that "Specter Team" slogan of his, back in the late Sixties, now stands as the height of hypocrisy today.
UPDATE: Now James Dobson is getting into the act--and high time!
FURTHER UPDATE: Cassandra is on board, and likewise The Spoons Experience and Captain's Quarters. Let's get this rolling!
posted by Temlakos at 7:46 AM
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