Specter admits role in expanding WH powers.

[fooj]

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002357.php

Update: Specter Admits Role in Expanding WH Powers
By Paul Kiel - January 17, 2007, 3:33 PM
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) confirmed that as Judiciary Committee chairman last year he made a last-minute change to a bill that expanded the administration's power to install U.S. Attorneys without Senate approval.

Seizing upon the new authority granted by Congress last March, the White House has pushed out several U.S. Attorneys, and begun to replace them without the Senate's consent.

"I can confirm for you that yes, it was a Specter provision," a spokesperson for the senator wrote to me in an email earlier today, responding to repeated inquiries. Earlier we reported that Specter had been fingered for the last-minute change, made in a select Republicans-only meeting after the House and Senate had voted on earlier versions.
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SOB! :grr:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. Please go away, Arlen.

You've done plenty of damage in the last forty-five years.

Take a well-deserved break.

In hell, ya rat!

:evilfrown:

[Daylin Byak]

3. You know I have a huge amount of respect for my Senator

But what you did Arlen was wrong and unethical. Nuff said.

[Divine Discontent]

23. I agree...

I have some respect for him, and yet he blows what could be solid support from me if he didn't do such sleezy things like this... giving shrubco any additional secretive power is a huge mistake, he has to realize this...



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[ClassWarrior]

34. For ol' Magic Bullet?

:rofl:

NGU.

[Kikosexy2]

35. Let's undo ...

the damage and amend it back to its original language...Blow-hard Arlen needs to be remove...banished...jailed...

[sandnsea]

43. Warren Commission

and the 'single bullet theory'. Arlen Specter. That's the Republican Party.

[gratuitous]

2. Thanks again, Sen. Specter

Golly, this guy is just a gift that keeps on giving, isn't he? The toughest talk out of the Republican caucus time after time against the corrupt Bush administration, but the most reliable provider of congressional goodies to the crooks in the White House.

Don't listen to a word these liars say. Watch what they do, particularly when they think no one's looking. Specter's health may curtail his Senate career sooner rather than later, but Gordon Smith of Oregon seems prepared to assume the mantle of Master of Political Grandstanding.

[A Simple Game]

29. Say one thing to the voters, do the opposite for his masters.

I'm not surprised.

[zulchzulu]

4. Specter has always been a paper tiger

He's Mr. Tough Guy up until when voting time comes...then he bends over like a docile prisoner in the jailhouse shower...

[fooj]

5. yikes...

scary visual. lol

[dicknbush]

6. Yeah and he has let Bush ream him so many times...

He doesn't even need the K-Y Jelly any more.

[williesgirl]

7. 'then this Senate needs to turn around and amend it NOW. Look at the result.

recommended

[rusty charly]

20. oh, they'll turn it around, alright...

right when a dem gets the WH.

they 'pukes will thrash and gnash to reverse every WH power they gave *.

[peace13]

33. Regardless of who is in office it needs to be changed

back as soon as possible. It is the right thing to do! Peace, Kim

[enough]

8. K&r, while gnashing teeth again in Pennsylvania.

[tanyev]

9. "made in a select Republicans-only meeting after the House and Senate had voted on earlier versions"

How can it even be valid? It is time for this crap to stop. I hope Reid and Pelosi can clean up this cesspool.

[Disturbed]

10. Talks tough then bends over.

Yeah, a typical Rethug hypocrite.

[fooj]

11. I don't know how this piece of filth can show his face.

Seriously.

[johnnydrama]

12. this makes me thing

If you take the forced resignations of all the US attorney's we've heard about this week, plus this provision snuck in in the dead of night with only Republicans knowing about it, some much grander scheme must be out there.

They are planning something. It may be as simple as not allowing Republican corruption to be looked it, but something else could be on the horizon.

[fooj]

13. You've made a valid point.

God only knows what these treasonous, rat bastards have planned...

[nebenaube]

17. you may be right...

After all if a certain Tom Clancy novel were to play out, they would come out on top in a big-big way.

[orleans]

26. you ask how it can be valid. i'm wondering how the hell this can be legal.

i thought the cancer changed him a bit--gave him a better sense of values. (i was wrong)

i noticed he started acting like a shit again when his fucking hair grew back.

what an asshole.

[saltpoint]

14. In my living at this very hour, ladies and gentlemen, are

visitors from solar systems well beyond this one.

They are courteus to a fault, if a bit odd looking by our human standards, and for purposes of ease of communication, they speak immaculate English.

They ask if perhaps I could provide them with an earthling whom they wish to take to their far-distant lands and subject to unspeakable experimentation involving excruciating pain.

Does anyone object if I give them Senator Specter's name?

[Generic Brad]

15. I have never trusted Arlen Specter

And this tidbit is one more example of why I cannot trust him to do the right thing.

[nebenaube]

16. and that's not..

And doing that is not a crime? Inserting provisions after a vote is not subversion of the process? You tell me that is not a violation of his oath of office? I've never trusted that man.

[Marnieworld]

18. Thanks Senator asshole

It wasn't enough that you gave America "The Magic Bullet" theory. :grr:

[Zambero]

19. When's it time to put this idiot out to pasture?

Specter deserves the equivalent of a good old Pennsylvania de-Santorum-ization in the worst way. Is his term up next year?

[TechBear_Seattle]

21. How in the bloody hell was this constitutional?

And why shouldn't every damned Congresscritter who voted for this be charged with malfeasance, if not treason, for breaking his oath of office to protect and uphold the Constitution of the United States?

[marmar]

22. So you're admitting that you're a punk, Sen. Specter?

Good for you. Now fuck off.

[shance]

24. Can anyone expect less of someone who was complicit in JFK's coverup?

Arlen Spector of course was the author of the famed "magic bullet" theory.

Take the time to look it up. So much of where we are today dates back to JFK and frankly years before that.

History is information is power.

[The Wizard]

27. His reward for complicity

in the cover-up is a lifetime Senate seat. His connection to the Bush Crime Family goes way back. He and his buddy Lieberman should have their foreskins reattached. They have broken their sacred covenant with god and are actively working for a satanic cult, the GOP.
Thank Zeus I'm a Democrat.

[Judi Lynn]

25. Is it possible underhanded actions like this can be reversed? This is unpardonable. n/t

[orleans]

28. this was out at 3:33 wednesday. the "earlier" article was out at 11:48

where the hell is anyone else on this?

i'm googling and all i see is tpm

i'm trying to go to another source--and no one else is reporting this? what the fuck?

okay--i'm calling my senator's office thursday--he's on the judiciary committee (durbin)

check for your senator and make a call. this can't possibly be LEGAL!?!?

http://judiciary.senate.gov/members.cfm

[LeftishBrit]

30. Well, he'll probably regret this in a couple of years' time

When a Dem gets to be president and has all these powers!

[bonito]

31. He's a good actor though

:mad:

[No Exit]

32. That bastard! "made in a select, Republicans-only meeting"

"Select, Republicans-only meeting". Remember that phrase, because it describes much of what the repukes did during their occupation of the majority position of congress.

It reminds me of the comment made by Patrick Leahy after the Edwards-Cheney VP debate. There was a dispute as to whether Cheney and Edwards had ever met before the debate. (They had; Cheney had maintained they hadn't.) Leahy pointed out that Cheney certainly wouldn't have met Edwards when Cheney visited Capitol Hill--because when Cheney came to Capitol Hill, he always spoke only to republican lawmakers, completely ignoring the democrats.

And they now want "bipartisnship". How dare they. How fucking dare they.

[mcking]

36. A commenter to the TPMmuckraker article

said to remember: TNSTAAGR

There's No Such Thing As A Good Republican

That's what I've concluded over the past couple of years, as well.

[corporatemedia]

37. Cafferty: Arlen Specter: a "gutless Republican worm" VIDEO from '06

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYnhtxzu9Ds

Don't worry, America, in 4 years Arlen will be just another "former republican senator from PA."

[ooglymoogly]

38. please get back under your rock arlen

you have played us one too many times. the jig is up. you better just stick with that 30% of murkins who can be fooled all the time.

[Supersedeas]

39. then, he ought to show some outrage over its use to nixx corruption attorneys

[orleans]

40. this is really important. i'm kickin it! n/t

[diane in sf]

41. Are there any lawyers or constitutional scholars?

who know if this addendum is illegal?

[drm604]

42. Thank you so much Arlen!

It's so wonderful to have someone like you as my Senator. I apologize for not voting for you. :sarcasm:
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