• February 14, 2012

judiciary committee

Arlen Specter has an editorial in USA Today today (today) telling the world that he will vote to confirm Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. The world, of course, does not care. Arlen Specter holds no power over Supreme Court nominations anymore, but even if he did, the news media has finally stopped covering Supreme [...]

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 [...]

Senator Arlen Specter, the newly minted Democrat from Pennsylvania, is officially one of the most junior members of the five Senate committees he sits on, even though he’s a million and a half years old and has spent a million of those years as a senator. The Senate voted unanimously to strip him of his [...]