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Originally Posted by smooth
But why did spectre retract?
why did he even speak?
he's poised to become the judicial appointment chair! and he's not going to let an anti-abortionist go on up the ladder.
what motive would they have to tell him to stuff it? seems to me that bush would kick him right out of the circle of friends (certainly has the power and mandate from his base to do it) for not playing along. that's not a minor infraction what he said.
but bush hushed him. doesn't want him to rile the 4 million people who just secured his victory? that's where my money's at.
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You are absolutely right. That's what I was trying to get across in my post. Spectre blabbed to the press about exopecting the president not to use litmus tests, etc (
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6405485/) (why, I have no idea. maybe he wanted to show his constituents he wasn't a patsy, maybe he felt emboldened by his win to try to push the party more to the middle, maybe he was drunk.)
The next day, like a robot he comes out with "I support my president's choices. I want the process to quickly approve his nominations."
Pretty clear that the White House smacked him down a notch (presumably by threatening either his judiciary committee position or a favorite bill or two). That's what I call enforcing party discipline