Arlen Specter (R-PA) demonstrates his uselessness to stand up to Dubya

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Specter Won't Subpoena Telecom Executives

By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

(06-06) 15:20 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

Phone company executives won't be grilled by a Senate panel anytime soon about their roles in the Bush administration's eavesdropping program.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said Tuesday he will hold off subpoenaing the telecommunications chiefs while he works with the White House on his legislation that would ask a secretive federal court to review the constitutionality of Bush's surveillance operations.

Democrats accused Specter of abdicating Congress' oversight responsibilities.

"Why don't we just recess for the rest of the year?" the committee's top Democrat, Sen. Pat Leahy of Vermont, asked sarcastically. "Vice President Cheney will just tell the nation what laws we'll have."

Here's another PA senator that needs to go soon.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/06/06/national/w152043D54.DTL

 

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I love how Conservative talk show hosts attack Specter in an attempt to show that they don't just follow party lines and that they are willing attack people of either party.