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To: Sully- who wrote (9696)	5/10/2005 4:07:42 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

In Praise of Arlen Specter RedState.org "An offer to confirm any one of the those four nominees is an explicit concession that each is qualified for the court and that they are being held hostage as pawns in a convoluted chess game which has spiraled out of control. If the Democrats really believe each is unqualified, a "deal" for confirmation for anyone of them is repugnant to the basic democratic principle of individual, fair, and equitable treatment and violates Senators' oaths on the constitutional confirmation process." Sen. Specter's remarks on the Senate floor yesterday are worth reading - particularly the passages that Andrew Hyman has bolded. They provide an opportunity for me to voice a rare instance of praise for Arlen Specter, who I generally detest more than all other sources of great injustice and evil (with the possible exception of the Dallas Cowboys). Loyal RS readers will know that I harbor several doubts concerning the so-called "nuclear option." While it is true that the Democrats have engaged in activity that both breaks from history and flaunts the idea of majority rule, I'm reluctant to concede a tool that has served conservative values in the past and may again in the future. Senators are less ideological than you think, and I remain convinced that a well-organized majority leader who was willing to do what it takes could get every one of these nominees confirmed. Sen. Specter rightly acknowledges that the proposed compromises (both real and fictional) on this issue are a crock. They allow for irresponsible, short-term, selfishly motivated solutions that let the air out of the issue, instead of returning the Senate to tradition and letting the majority rule on an issue that they always have. They ignore principle in favor of politics. Specter concludes with a call for compromise. But we all have to recognize that this whole thing knocks up a notch when we start discussing the Supreme Court, and compromise will be a difficult thing at that level. Despite what Specter says, politicization of the process is not a bad thing in this sense - we all should remember that only three Senators voted against Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose views were well known at the time. Next time around, that sort of thing won't happen. redstate.org confirmthem.com

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