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

[jaschrod]

This a is just normal for Specter, he talks a good game, but always sucks up to Bush or the party, to hell with the country. He is just a very weak, corrupt person.

[shockedNawed]

ARLEN SPECTER

aka: two-faced phony

[StillAmused]

"Because," Specter explains, "I figure -- what the fuck."

[eugenegerard]

Any Senator, Republican or Democrat that votes for this Fascist toady is un-American and should be ashamed of being responsible for putting this tool in office.

[AurigaRa]

THAT's the ticket!

You're not sure he's against waterboarding, but your gonna vote for him anyway.

Why do they bother to discuss? Why do we CARE what they say? Why do we bother to elect ANYONE at ALL?

What a supreme sack of shit Arlen Spector is.

[TheHandyman]

Specter reminds me of that guy on King of the Hill that always mutters and you can't understand what he says and in the end it doesn't matter because when you look at the record, as Molly Ivins always said you should do, you see Specter is as big a criminal as his roll models in the White House. "well, I spoke out against it before I voted for it Specter!"

And McCain says Mukasey wasn't exactly clear! No Senator, for those of us who understand Rhetoric and Logic he made himself exactly clear and we understand it. You, however, have shit for brains!

[KRANKY]

Specter is a SHITHEAD. A major SHITHEAD.
He is a stupid enabler of FASCISTS.
Patriots will know how to reason with collaborationists like Specter.

TODAY
Patriots work against Fascists.
They are weak, but have money and influence.
WE HAVE to overpower them.
NOW!

[Listen2me]

Arlen Specter is haunting Washington . . . and has been doing so, ever since he concocted the "magic bullet" theory and otherwise distorted the Warren Commission's examination of evidence in the assassination of JFK.

It was Specter's aide who slipped into law the abrogation of the right of habeas corpus---the foundation of our liberty under law.

As previously noted by everybody posting here, Specter follows Bush every single time. And enough chickenshit Democrats cave in to let Bush win EVERY SINGLE TIME. We really need to march on Washington AGAINST THE SELL OUT DEMS---and soon.

And Californians---can't you get a recall petition going against Feinstein? You could get enough signatures in a week.

[dr4Will]

spector always talks bold but he is a jewish coward and bottom feeder

[LastDaysCafe]

Regarding Oswald and JFK.
One piece of evidence was a slug from Oswald's rifle found apparently on Kennedy's hospital stretcher.This bullet investigators said,went first through Kennedy's neck and then through Gov.Connelly's wrist.This slug was not made of lead but of a much harder metal.It was not deformed very much by the impact and this was given as the reason why this bullet had been able to go as far as it did,passing unchanged through 2 bodies.But why then did the other Oswald bullet blow out a huge piece of Kennedy's skull?

[LastDaysCafe]

Why not? Specter like Schumer,Finestein and Mukasey is a Pro Israel Zionist and he like them will not miss out on any opportunity to get one of his brethren into the higher echelons of the US Govt...to of course lobby for Israel!

[TheQuestion]

That would be Specter - talk against it & vote for it. Ultimatly he would probably give George anything he wanted.

[olivia]

Feinstein: [phone]

Schumer: [phone]

Let's inundate them with calls Monday morning.

As for Specter, no surprise at this news.

[olivia]

Republicans are now officially Torture Supporters.

Are there none who will denounce barbarianism?

[HurryUp1212009]

WHAT'S NEW?

ARLEN "FLIP FLOP" SPECTER ALWAYS STARTS OUT SAYING ONE THING AND ENDS UP DOING THE OPPOSITE!

WHY HECK, HE'S MORE LIKE A DEMOCRAT THAN A REPUBLICAN; JUST LIKE LIEBERMAN IS MORE LIKE A REPUBLICAN THAN A DEMOCRAT.

TOO BAD THE BIG-C DIDN'T GET SPECTER A FEW YEARS AGO...

ALL IT DID IS TURN HIM INTO A TWO-FACED BS ARTIST AND PHONY HYPOCRITE...