d-day.blogspot.com - 1/28/2009
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So let's get the timeline of events right. Arlen Specter slanders Barack Obama's nominee Eric Holder and leads the effort to question him in the media, perhaps at the behest of Karl Rove. Then Pat Toomey, the head of the Club for Growth, decides he won't run in a primary against Specter from the ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/28/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
My colleague Zack at TPMmuck just heard from
an aide to Attorney General nominee Eric Holder. The
aide definitively denied Sen. Kit Bond's (R-MO) claim that Holder had given him "assurances" of avoiding future prosecutions of Bush intelligence ...
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Talking Points Memo | Holder Aide: We Made No Special ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/27/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
It may be time to coin the phrase
"pulling a Specter," because Sen. Arlen Specter (PA), the
senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, just did it again . After making a huge fuss questioning the independence of Eric Holder, Specter just caved and ...
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Specter: Psych! I'll Back Holder
huffingtonpost.com - 1/28/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
An aide to Eric Holder rejected a report
Wednesday suggesting that the Attorney General nominee had pledged
not to prosecute members of the Bush administration officials who were complicit in illegal harsh interrogations or torture. "Eric Holder ...
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Aide: Holder Has Made No Decisions On Prosecuting Bush ...
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Hullabaloo —
... So after huffing and puffing for weeks, Arlen Specter got what he wanted out of the Eric Holder nomination hearings (his main potential primary opponent declined to run against him) and decided to back the Attorney General nominee. After all the talk of principle and judgment, it just took improved electoral prospects for Specter to have a change of heart. Funny how that goes. ...
Arlen Specter now backs Eric Holder
Crooks and Liars —
... to back Holder.
Eric Holder's confirmation as the first African-American attorney general was assured Tuesday when Sen. Arlen Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he will support confirmation.
"He will have significant Republican backing," the Pennsylvania senator told a news conference.
Specter's said he would not support any Republican filibuster to block the nomination.
d-day has an opinion on why he changed his mind and asks "Is there anyone more pathetic than Arlen Specter? ...
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