Specter Bothered By Mukasey's Answers On Waterboarding, But Will Vote For Him Anyway

AP:

The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he is bothered by Michael Mukasey's refusal to say whether waterboarding is torture but will support his nomination for attorney general anyway.

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., joins two key Senate Democrats in saying he will back Mukasey because the retired judge has said that if Congress passes a law banning waterboarding, "the president would have absolutely no legal authority to ignore such a law."

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Comments

[dax49]

i've said it before, spector is like the girl girl who constntly talks about being a virgin, then jumps into a gang bang. he thinks he can fool the voters by pretendinding not to be in bush's pocket. it ain't working

[sej100]

Business as usual Specter talks as if he has values and a conscience and then votes as if he has NONE at all.

This man really needs to be voted out of office. He pretends to fight and never does. He can be counted on for only one thing voting the wrong way.

[Honza]

Specter, Schumer, and Fienstien, are going to give Bush his last hurrah, Bush has been giving the Americans the finger since he learned the people knew he was a chronic alcholic liar son-of-a bitch.

[nofltwlt]

Why on earth would Specter do that?

It his responsibilty to me and us that he oppose Mukasey if he is trouble by Mukasey's answers. We deserve the best of the best AG and not the best of the worst.

I for one will be so glad to hear that Specter is unseated by a democrat during the next election cycle.

[breakfast]

Was there ever really any doubt about how Specter would vote?

[scooperss]

specter would vote for laura if bush said to.

[dr4Will]

specter is the coward on all issues--he voices concerns to satisfy pennsylvania independents then always votes with the repug bottom feeders-thy should be ready to kick him out!!

[mam]

What? Arlen Specter is going to overcome his personal scruples and commitment to the Constitution to toe the party line and confirm a sub-par nominee ? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked! Surely such a thing can never have happened before...oh wait, there was the Roberts confirmation. And the Alito confirmation. And can't forget his vigorous defense and confirmation of that shining example of sound judicial temperament, Clarence Thomas. Oh, and Specter's vote for the Military Commissions Act, eliminating habeas corpus after doing such a prolonged song and dance about how critical it was.

IOW, Arlen's confirming his wanker status. What else is new?

[americanwhocares]

Specter, like all republicans is just another rubber stamp for the Bush Junta. Hope 2008 elections throws every republican out of office.

[Counterglow]

A lot of prostitutes are bothered by having sex with people they don't care about, but they do it anyway. For the money, and because their pimp tells them to.

Forgive me if I seem angry, but I'm getting so sick and tired of all these politicians who try to have it both ways by saying they don't approve of something, but they'll vote for it anyway. Arlen Specter is one of the worst.

I wish a few more people in both parties would grow spines and quit sucking up to the far right. They've had it all their own way for the best part of a decade, and they're well on the way to destroying the United States.

[VOTER]

I understand his problem.

Is waterboarding REALLY TORTURE?

This is a tough one.

Asses all of them!

Man, Rove, really must have done his homework and collected blackmail on the majority of pols.

I wonder why the msm can't uncover it and shove it down their unpatriotic throats.

Tell them to start with the sacred monkey, Bush.

[LittleBrother]

Specter Bothered By Mukasey's Answers On Waterboarding, But Will Vote For Him Anyway
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What?????!!!!! Say it ain't so!!!

I haven't been this stunned and flabbergasted since I looked out the window a few hours ago and noticed this huge round fireball actually rise up over the eastern horizon! It was so bright that the sky actually turned from black to blue, and it illuminated the ground below as far as I could see!

But even that wasn't as shocking as THIS news! Well, I never!

[AntiFascistCanuck]

Isn't Arlen Specter the last of the Warren Commission? He believed a magic bullet killed JFK didn't he? How is that this fella is re-elected over and over?

[GeoNorth]

Just when I think that Specter is one of the good guys (in spite of his party affiliation), he backs another Bush criminal. I'm just thankful that I live in the land of Leahy, Sanders and Welch.

hey, Pat...Could you whack that moron behind the head? Knock some sense into him?

[escobar]

Too bad someone doesn't torture Spector to find out his opinions about magic bullets et all??
Heck while in the mood, why not ask Kissinger the same set of questions?
He orchestrated the Vietnam war. Perhaps he could lend some insights, if drowned in sewer water with his hands broken, soles of his feet pulverized, and face punched in with a rifle butt.
Would the information obtained this way qualify as, "Actionable Evidence" as defined by Obama?