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1.24.05 @ 12:01AM

FIGHTIN' ARLEN
Re: The Washington Prowler's Specter in New Trouble:

The GOP should be ashamed of itself for supporting this man for Senator in the last election. The photographs he has locked away must be very graphic.
-- Anthony Mastroserio
Princeton, New Jersey

It amazes me how smart Senators make the stupidest of mistakes. We dumb folks from the Red States know that if a fox tells you to leave the chicken house door open, because he says he will leave the chickens alone, don't believe him. Take Rick Santorum off the 2008 Presidential candidate list. He ain't smart.
-- David Shoup
Dublin, Georgia

So Arlen Specter has already p*ssed off the Judiciary Committee Staff, the GOP Caucus and the White House? One doesn't know whether to laugh or scream at the report. On the one hand, Arlen Specter has made a career of p*ssing off the GOP and pandering to the unions and trial lawyers who fund his re-election campaigns. The President and most GOP voters, on the other hand, have placed a very high priority on ending judicial legislation by activist judges. So the elevation of Specter to Judiciary Chair, the ideal position from which to ambush the President's "strict construction" judicial nominees, was an astonishing political non sequitur, even by Washington standards. One result is that Rick Santorum and Bill Frist, to name just two of the Senate GOP's supposed best and brightest, now find Snarlin' Arlen in charge of their political futures. Just incredible. It does make you wonder if the GOP is ready to lead.
-- Jim Willhite
West Chester, Pennsylvania

How many times did K-Lo, and dozens of other conservative/libertarian pundits, warn Bush and Santorum and the other Republican senators that they would face this very thing? I know hindsight is 20-20, and that there was a very real worry that the Republicans would need every last Senate win (who knew there'd be 55 GOP senators?), so I'm not going to say I told you so re Toomey. But Frist and caucus need to punish Specter and punish him now! Get him off the Judiciary Committee. So what if he pulls a Jeffords. In his current position, he's capable of doing more lasting damage re shaping the judiciary than any other person in the Senate. Better he became a Democrat.

If Bush and Frist don't do everything they can to oust this guy, they deserve all the heartaches he'll cause them. The only problem with that is, the 61 million people who voted Bush into office deserve better.
-- Tim Jones
Cordova Tennessee

What happens when all of us, the working mopes of this country, are found to be not doing our job right or are falsely doing our job? We're axed after we receive a severe verbal throttling. Why is it that Arlen Specter, is going to walk on this outrageous action he has just taken?

And you know he will, because no one in that fetid place called D.C. will call him on it.

Bill Frist has something to hang his hat on, with respect to Specter, and now is the time to unload this worthless hunk of flesh.

Mr. Frist are you listening?: Specter is as Specter does and he's about as genuine as John Conyers or other members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Oust Specter now, before it's too late.
-- Colin McCauley
Leominster, Massachusetts

It's time for Specter to resign. I read the last Spectatorgaffe with disgust.
-- Thomas Saunders

SWEET DREAMS
Re: Lawrence Henry's Naps:

Thanks to Lawrence Henry for his piece on one of life's sweet habits.

Many of my friends are actors and musicians with no children or familial commitments. They have the free time and luxury to take naps at will. I have four kids and two jobs so I've missed out on many siestas during the past 11 years.

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