From HumanEvents.com (May 10, 2009: The Senate Judiciary Committee procedural rules state: "Eight Members of the Committee, including at least two Members of the minority, shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of transacting business... If there is objection to bring the matter to a vote without further debate, a roll call vote of the Committee shall be taken, and debate shall be terminated if the motion to bring the matter to a vote without further debate passes with ten votes in the affirmative, one of which must be cast by the minority." On April 29th, only one minority member attended the Hamilton hearings, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), whose tough questioning opposed Hamilton, so no vote was permissible. (David Hamilton is an extreme anti-Jesus, anti-Life liberal judge.)
When Specter had ruled Judiciary as GOP minority ranking member, he could likely be counted on by the Obama administration as "one soft vote" to promote liberal judges. But now since Specter is no longer Republican, he cannot help Obama. And in breaking news this week, solid conservative Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has assumed Specter's place of leadership as minority ranking Member, and all other Judiciary Republicans Hatch, Grassley, Kyl, Graham, Cornyn, Coburn, can generally be counted upon (with the possible exception of gang-of-14 member Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, 202-224-5972), to stand firm against abortion and religious censorship. Now Sen. Sessions says he agrees with Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), that we should oppose and filibuster Hamilton's nomination to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, the same court that reversed his liberal, activist, aggressive decisions for years.
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This is an excellent analysis, Dave. It's been obvious for a while (forever?) that conservatives had no respect for Specter. Now he's learning that his new brethren have nothing but contempt for him either. He has succeeded in totally marginalizing himself. I hope the voters in Pennsylvania reward him appropriately for effectively disenfranchising them.
How ironic. A little smidgen of justice in that septic tank.
Unfortunately, Bill, at least according to the polls, Specter's "popularity" seems to be holding up. The media did everything they could to get RINO Tom Ridge to run, short of taking him by the hand. (That way, the left could only have won.) And they treat conservative Pat Toomey with contempt.
The irate and tireless Conservative voices of Pennsylvania must set brushfire after brushfire until enough people start thinking right. If we allow the Republican bosses to control who runs, we will end up having no real choice. It will be a liberal vs a RINO.
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