Wonkette
- VENGEANCE IS BRIEF: Arlen Specter, the Senate’s littlest Democrat, has been promised the chairmanship of the Crime and Drugs Subcommittee after the 2010 election. Dick Durbin currently holds the position, which he’ll give up anyway to chair “a newly restored human rights subcommittee,” which was dissolved because everybody on it was too busy to ever go to meetings. The point is this: Specter, in a year and a half, will get to preside over a Judiciary subcommittee, in the hopes that he will not angrily sink President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee this summer. [Washington Post]
Jeebus on a license plate, it’s so obvs: Anita Hill for SCOTUS! And make her chief justice so she can put Clarence in his place!
You can make a deal with the Devil, but then the Devil owns you.
Barry and Harry must love irony to put Phil Spector as the Crime and Drugs Chair. Who else would know more about it than a whacko music producer who likes to shoot 40 year old B-movie actresses? I guess jail isn’t an impediment to being a senator.
What?!? Arlen? Oh. My bad.
Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) would give up the gavel of the prestigious post, which holds jurisdiction over most Justice Department activities.
It won’t be too prestigious after most drugs and crimes are legalized before 2010, will it?
Does anyone know what kind of snacks they serve at these committee meetings? I wouldn’t mind being on a crappy committee so much if they had delicious snacks.
Specter has to get reelected for this deal to ever be worth the paper it is not written on.
Wasn’t there room on the Chemotherapy and Face Make-up Subcomittee?
He could preside over the Senate Sub-Committee on Shut the Fuck Up.
News reading FAIL — Specter will get subcommittee chair now, not after midterms. He may get his committee seniority back after midterms, if he’s a good little boy.
I thought I was in charge of drugs and crime. Oh, capital letters, and a committee…
Poor Arlen don’t know if he’s coming or going.
Elect Joe the Plumber for PA Senator in ‘10.
V572625694: You are a genius.
Bristol Palin would abstain, even though they call him ‘Dick’ Durbin.
I would do just about anything to be even a junior member of a committee that had limitless drugs. Crimes however? Just the vice kind please, but I understand that’s not too unusual for DC