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Republicans had their chance to stop Arlen Specter from becoming Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. We sure warned of the impending disaster once he got the gavel. Those who stood up and opposed Specter enjoyed a heaping share of criticism, even from our own.

Boy, it never felt so lousy to be so right.

Let's see what dear Arlen has actually done since he swore fealty to Republicans back in late November:

• He hired, for the purposes of managing nominations on the committee, Hannibal G. Williams II Kemerer the assistant general counsel of the NAACP. The NAACP on nominations...gee - that would be the same group that conspired with Teddy Kennedy to delay the confirmation of a nominee to a court before which the NAACP was arguing litigation, fearing that it might adversely affect their chances of success. (It should be pointed out that as soon as the hiring was announced, Specter backtracked and assigned Kemerer other duties - including tort reform)
• He declared that all candidates re-nominated to the bench must go through another round of confirmation hearings before the "Specter" Judiciary Committee - EVEN THOSE previously voted to the floor of the Senate. A magnificent waste of time and taxpayers' money that serves only two purposes - 1) to give committee Democrats another shot to tear down the nominees, and 2) to further increase the size of Arlen's cranium.
• Wait - there's another bad hiring decision to be made! How about choosing for your General Counsel the wife of a former Democratic Congressional Candidate? And as an extra-added bonus, let's make her a big fan of abortion and a donor to Hillary Clinton's campaign for the US Senate.

We're here to support the confirmation of the President's nominations to the federal bench. It's just too bad the Chairman seems to be doing all he can to put roadblocks in our way.