How Times Have Changed
Strange Bedfellows On The Starboard Side! I Repeat: Strange Bedfellows On The Starboard Side!
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in 2006 | Featured Stories — Comments (16) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Look who's making sense on the issue of judicial nominations that might be sent to the upcoming Democratic Congress:
"The last time I read the Constitution, the president has the power to nominate whomever he wants," . . . "The Democrats don't have to vote for those people, but I don't see it as a sign of truculence or defiance if he nominates people they won't vote for."
Quite so. Exactly correct. Couldn't agree more. And the person stating this must clearly be a rock-ribbed conservative Republican, right?
Wrong. It's Arlen Specter. Thanks to the incoming new crowd, he just looks more conservative nowadays.
Quite an achievement, that.
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Bear in mind that Arlen is now the conservative senator from PA. Maybe he's trying to play the part?
"I'm kind of old-fashioned. I like to engage my brain before my mouth." Donald Rumsfeld
I wouldn't take too much stock in what ol' Snarlin' Arlen says. This is the same guy who asserted that the GOP needs to move leftward based on election 2006 results.
people say things that make sense. Most times, they do not come from Arlen Spector
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What i have in my heart , I'll take to my grave - Hatebreed
I hear from credible sources that Justice Stevens will announce his retirement by years end. Hope Senator Specter can help shepherd through the nominee.
the GOP controlled congress and the WH.
At this point he can at least hope his replacement is more like an O'Conner or Kennedy (although I suspect the democrats would even label them too conservative for the American people-Ginsberg or nothing) than another Scalia.
Although he may try to hold out for two years in case the dems take the WH too, but that may be too much of a gamble, since the senate is a slim majority at that.
I assume that he had the ability to state whatever he wishes but this is just totally wrong (Unfortunately, as he always is). Formally known as deagle.
Sorry, can not believe that people still listen to him... Oh well, all to their own (Disgusting as it is).
Formally known as deagle.
The first thing Arlen did when appointed to the judiciary in 04 was tell Bush not to put through anyone who Spector did not agree with(aginst aortion on demand , yu know the abortion right in the constitution, What you did not see it? For Arlen it is right next to the gay marriage admendent). Now that he is loosing his chair he is looking for kudos form idiots who forget what a looser the guy is.
Spector is part of the reason the Repblicans go whooped this election. Along with MCCain, Graham, Chafee, DeWine, Burnes, luckily some of these looserd the GOP refused to kick to the curb the electorate did for them
Even though Arlen Specter really isn't a conservative, the incoming majority makes him look like one. That was the point of my post and it was clear as day
Do you understand that? No, of course you don't.
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." --Friedrich Nietzsche
it was a good attempt anyway... I guess everybody hate him so bad that they can't form any other opinion. Put me in that group...Heh.
Formally known as deagle.
Arlen wants to hold NSA hearings, give GITMO detainees habeas corpus rights, have open borders, gay marriage, abortion on demand, against gun rights, he is maybe to the right of Lincoln Chafee but that is about all. He is in know way right leaning. He is a committed lefty, but PA is a blue state.
No Arlen Spector looks like Harry Reid, Kenendy, McCain, Hagel, Schumer, Clinton, DeWine ....
Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., had wasted no time in grilling Roberts on one of the big issues of the day _ abortion
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/13/D8CJENHO1.html
But the panel's chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, said President Bush "doesn't have a blank check" to bypass a special court set up to approve secret wiretaps under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
Specter said no "fair, realistic reading" of the 2001 resolution gives the administration the power to conduct electronic surveillance of people inside the United States without a warrant.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/06/nsa.gonzales/index.html
Sen. Specter preparing bill to sue Bush
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14020234/
“We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free." President Ronald Reagan -- Normandy, France, June 6, 1984
by any stretch of the immigination...so, anything he is for is a prolem...!
Formally known as deagle.
why his name should always be written "Arlen Specter (R-WhyYesItReallyIsAllAboutMe)"
(w/t: jsteele).
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Evil men hide from the truth, but good men stand upon it.
If the president wanted to nominate someone who would tie his opponents up in knots, he'd offer them someone they might find more than acceptable on some grounds and absolutely unacceptable on others. In fact, both sides might have to ask which issue was more important, abortion, or the war on terror? So chew on this phrase for a moment and see how it tastes: Justice Rudolph Giuliani. A pick guaranteed to make more than a few heads explode.
he doesn't like making it out of the committee, the democrats will be more effective than the GOP was during the Clinton years of holding up appointments.