A message for Arlen Specter (flip flopper of the day)

[No Mandate Here.]

Here is a copy of an email I have just sent to Specter, who is now denying he ever said anything about standing up to * on his judgeships. If he is a puppet- Bye bye, Roe. Lets hammer him on this.


Mr. Specter,

I was very heartened to see the press coverage this morning of your statements about protecting our civil rights that Mr. Bush and his 'base' want very much to remove through the appointment of hyper-conservative judges. This was reported in The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, on NPR and elsewhere. See the AP story here: http://www.postgazette.com/pg/04309/406471.stm

Your statement today , which basically says that these press reports were false, and that you never said any of these things is amazing to me. All through the past year, nearly every Republican in the country railed against Mr. Kerry for having differing opinions about issue, and he was derided as a flip flopper. How is this different? His differing opinions were NOT on consecutive days.

Mr Bush may claim a mandate for his hyper-conservative "family values", but I remind you that more people voted against him in this election than voted for him in 2000. Most people want progressive courts and have much more moderate values than Mr. Bush. After hearing of your position yesterday, I even sort of laughed when I heard a rumor that Mr. Bush was going to recess appoint Miguel Estrada for the Supreme Court. No, I said, our friend Mr. Specter will speak against such extremism. He will protect us.

Your words against the Democratic "obstructionism" mask the fact that 94% of Mr. Bush's appointments were confirmed and we have the lowest vacancy rate in generations on the Federal Courts.

I am convinced that this turnaround is due to the support that Mr. Bush gave you against Mr. Toomey, and am aghast at the transparency in your duplicitous word. In several outgoing emails this day, I had been supportive of your moderate words. I was wrong. We were duped.

This country was formed by dreams that were born from idealism and dissent. Don't let these concepts die.

[davidinalameda]

1. great letter

let us know if he responds

[Bjornsdotter]

2. Gee...what a surprise

This was also the genius that gave the "magic bullet" theory to the Warren Commission.....the man has NO credibility with me.

Also wasn't too fond of him during the whole Clarence Thomas hearings.

Cheers,
Kim :toast: