Specter to Ask Whether Rove Gave Assurances on Miers

[kentuck]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=avIE5l2P51sI

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Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said he wants to know whether presidential adviser Karl Rove privately assured a conservative activist about how Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would rule from the bench.

Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said he will would look into a statement by James Dobson, president of the Colorado Springs, Colorado-based advocacy group Focus on the Family, that Dobson has had ``conversations'' with Rove about the woman nominated to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and knows things about Miers ``that I probably shouldn't know.''

``The Senate Judiciary Committee is entitled to know whatever the White House knew,'' Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said on ABC's ``This Week'' program. ``If Dr. Dobson knows something that he shouldn't know or something that I ought to know, I'm going to find out.'' He stopped short of saying he would subpoena Dobson or Rove to appear.

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[Matariki]

1. wow, I thought they broke Specter's spine earlier this year?

[FreedomAngel82]

2. I guess he has enough here and there

Dangerous Spector. And it's so much fun watching them eat their own. Hehe! Harry Reid may have split the GOP and effected the elections for next year. This is such a great show. Although I really hope and pray she doesn't make it through. If the republicans want to be re-elected next year they'll have to go against Bush I think and do something to make up for her.

[jsamuel]

3. something happened to him with the whole Able Danger thing

[Matariki]

6. *that's* interesting

can you give me more on that?

[emulatorloo]

4. Kicked and Nominating n/t

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

5. Hey Senator Specter: SpongeDob refers to you as "Squishy"

A "squishy Republican" and attacks you and the other Northeast Republicans on a regular basis via his newsletters and website.

Dobson is a snake with an exaggerated sense of self importance and I hope you nail his ass.