This is the best story of the day:
"Concerned Women for America, a conservative group, issued a statement saying Specter had disqualified himself from the chairmanship and stuck by that statement even after Specter issued his clarification. 'He's a desperate man trying to pull himself out of a hole he dug himself into,' said Jan LaRue, the group's chief counsel."
Specter Denies Warning Bush Over Court Nominees
"James C. Dobson, head of the arch-conservative Focus on the Family lobbying organization, called Specter's comments 'the worst kind of political bullying.'"
Specter's tough talk angers GOP
Low comedy from the bottom feeders at lucianne.com:
Specter backtracks from advice on judges
They control the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives (and with them every Congressional committee), the Supreme Court, a substantial portion of the U.S. Courts of Appeal, and when one venerable Senator, one who probably knows more about the judicial selection process than anybody in Washington, D.C., speaks briefly out of turn, they call for his head.
Rush Limbaugh goes so far as to suggest the original story was a "trick" by the liberal media to present the GOP as a party in disarray:
"There's also the possibility that the press, on the president's first day after the election, would love a story showing how there's no unity in his own party. You know how the press loves that, when there's a riff in the Republican Party, oh, man it's front-page news, and you go to talk to Bill Kristol and anybody else who will comment on it inside the Beltway. * * *
"Everybody knows when I start predicting things I'm generally right. And so I'm giving you the benefit of my insight here. It does sound like something Specter would believe. But whether he would say it is another thing, but the press has him saying it, fills their template of, 'The Republicans really don't like each other and, look, here's a real Republican, Specter, he knows country, he knows, and he's challenging Bush. Bush doesn't have all this unity.' I mean, that's the underlying theme of this."
Someone's got it in for me / They're planting stories in the press