Conservatives Celebrate Election Triumphs

[Moloch]

WASHINGTON - The winners are claiming their postelection trophies quickly in Congress. Emboldened conservatives are working to box in an abortion-rights Republican who will chair a key committee chairmanship, while a grateful House GOP decides that not even an indictment should automatically strip Majority Leader Tom DeLay of his power.

Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), a moderate in a party of conservatives, "is entitled to be chairman" of the Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites), with jurisdiction over President Bush (news - web sites)'s judicial nominees, Sen. Orrin Hatch (news, bio, voting record) of Utah said last week, joining other members of the panel in a choreographed display of party unity.

Seniority, which counts for much in Congress, had said so all along. Besides, as the four-term Pennsylvanian kept pointing out, he voted for all of Bush's first-term appointments to the bench and has never applied an abortion-related litmus test in a Senate career that spans 24 years.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. But Specter's record won't be enough

he has to come out foaming at the mouth, spouting all the 'right to life' propaganda and half-truths. I predict he'll be purged, just before the Constitution is overturned and this country is turned into a theocracy.

[ixion]

2. ya know, for conservatives, they sure celebrate liberally...

I mean, it seems like all they do is talk about how powerful they are, crowing at the top of their lungs from the top of the dunghill, while all around them is chaos.

Rather than say, "okay, we have a lot of work to do, let's dig in and do it", all they do is sit around talking about how great it is to be a rethug.

Sounds like a cult, to me.

[trotsky]

3. And with a stranglehold on the ENTIRE federal government...

they will STILL complain about the "liberal elite."