Specter says Dems broke their promise

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/specter-says-dems-broke-their-promise-2007-07-12.html

Specter says Dems broke their promise
By Alexander Bolton
July 12, 2007

Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has fired an early volley in what Senate Republicans and conservative activists predict will escalate into another pitched battle with Democrats on judicial nominees.

Specter has accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) of breaking promises they made regarding Leslie Southwick, President Bush’s pick for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Specter aired his grievance with Reid and Leahy during a private meeting with leading conservative activists late Tuesday afternoon. Specter told those assembled that he was prepared to battle Democrats and asked if they also had an appetite for a fight, according to several people who attended the meeting. The activists assured Specter that they were eager to confront the Democrats on Southwick.

Building conservative grassroots support for Southwick would give Senate Republican leaders leverage to unify their caucus and oppose Democrats on the issue. Specter said in an interview yesterday that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) “has talked about some Republican action to put pressure on the Democrats to move the process forward.”

Recently, Specter and Leahy have had collegial encounters on judges, especially when measured by the partisan standard set by the committee in recent years. By faulting Democrats for ignoring assurances they made in private negotiations,
Specter has cast aside the drape of politesse that often hides behind-the-scenes Senate skirmishes.

Republican discontent over the progress of Southwick’s nomination reached a boiling point Tuesday because early in the day Reid told Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), Southwick’s chief advocate in the Senate, that the nomination had no hope of confirmation, according to GOP sources.

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[Bunny]

1. Go fuck yourself, Arlen.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

8. Hear hear! nt

[w8liftinglady]

19. LOL>..that's exactly what I was going to say!

[PA Democrat]

21. And then go fuck yourself again, Arlen.

Arlen broke his oath to uphold the Constitution while he was chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He looked the other way while the Bush administration systematically shredded our civil liberties, ignored the Geneva Convention, and stole our votes.

[dsc]

2. until the white house cooperates on the investigations

there should be no judges confirmed to any bench.

[malaise]

4. No senate appointments period n/t

[rusty_parts2001]

11. Absolutely positively NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[blondeatlast]

29. Exactly. nt

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

9. Exactly, dsc.

I hope Harry Reid tells ole "Magic Bullet" Specter to go and "Cheney" himself.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Broken promises? How about a broken country?

The repulics deserve NOTHING. Reid and Pelosi and Conyers and all should block EVERYTHING. It is time to take out that dry powder and blow it in their eyes.

[Vincardog]

6. Roger that and the last three posts.

[bdamomma]

5. Southwick is another crony of *'s and has a shitty record also.

[R_M]

7. And Spector is supposed to be a "moderate"?

:wtf:

He has his head up the reich wing's ass just like EVERY OTHER REPUBLIKAN!

[PA Democrat]

23. Arlen occasionally talks like a moderate, but he almost always scurries back to vote

with the Republicans. I never get excited when he starts sounding like a moderate because I know that disappointment is sure to follow.

[Warren Stupidity]

10. What the fuck?

I mean really, is it possible that after how many fillibuster now, 10? 20? that our side is still eagerly working 'together' with these fucking clowns, that Specter actually was making deals with Reid on moving even more fascists into permanent federal judgeships, that we were doing our same old same old bipartisan business as usual game? What the flying fuck? When if ever will our leaders get a goddamn clue?

[EFerrari]

12. Cry me a fake river, Arlen. n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

13. Tough shit...

Republicans have broken America!

[opihimoimoi]

15. HUBERT....Am I Glad to see you say tough Shit...beat me to it...

:toast:

[Hubert Flottz]

17. I'm tired of the GOPers trickle down morality and patriotism.

Brother Arlen is owned and operated 100%, by Bush Inc. He only fools the fools. :toast:

I'll bet Arleen has a kinky GOPer dirty didee on too if the truth be knowed!

[opihimoimoi]

28. Arleeen wears diapers...he is so full of shit....

[AlCzervik]

14. yeah Arlen and i'm not a fan of Clarence Thomas and since you helped him out big time

i say---boofuckinghoo to you.

[SoonerPride]

16. Declare "Congressional Privilege" and don't act the nomination.

Don't do a damn thing.

[VP505]

18. While he was whining about that

they confirmed four District court Judges today: Janet T. Neff, of Michigan, Liam O'Grady, of Virginia, Richard Sullivan, of New York, Benjamin Hale Settle.

[WCGreen]

20. Whaaaaaaa.... Whaaaaa....

Make them stop, dadddy...

Make them stop playing politics...

It, it it it is soooooo hard when I don't get my way....

Whaaaaaa.....

[mod mom]

22. REPUBLICANS TORE UP THE CONSTITUTION, and turned the DoJ into an arm of the RNC for God's sake!

[TommyO]

24. Specter broke his oath to support the Constitution

I didn't vote for the fucker, and you can bet his office will hear from me tomorrow.

[Oilwellian]

25. Poor Arlen

Historians won't be kind to him.

[PA Democrat]

27. Ha! Ha! That's what I regularly tell his staffers when I call his office.

[mmonk]

26. Spector. What a joke he is.