The American Spectator

/p> p> 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. br> — Jim Willhite br> West Chester, Pennsylvania /p>

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.

p>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. br> — Tim Jones br> Cordova Tennessee /p>

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.