Sen. Specter Urges Caution on Bush Judicial Showdown

struggle4progress

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Thu Feb-24-05 08:25 PM
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Sen. Specter Urges Caution on Bush Judicial Showdown

Feb 24, 2005 � By Thomas Ferraro

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter warned on Thursday that an impending showdown over President Bush's judicial nominees could lead to turmoil in the Republican-led Senate.

Specter said if fellow Republicans invoke the "nuclear option" by changing the Senate's rules to ban procedural hurdles against the nominees, Democrats could as promised retaliate with other moves of their own to "screw things up."

"If we have a 'nuclear option,' the Senate will be in turmoil and the Judiciary Committee will be hell," Specter said. "We can take an extended foreign trip, all of us." <snip>

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=529113

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Zenlitened

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Thu Feb-24-05 08:30 PM
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1. Good. If the repukes use their charmingly-titled "nuclear option"...

... I want Democrats to do EVERYTHING in their power to just shut the whole Senate down. Just stop everything cold. Our country will weather that storm far more easily than we'll survive decades of Bush top court appointees.

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Thu Feb-24-05 08:58 PM
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2. I will believe it when I see it

very skeptical

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Zenlitened

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Thu Feb-24-05 09:15 PM
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3. True. We've earned our skepticism the hard way, haven't we?

LOL :D

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