Specter ticked at Bush

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) is really taking his party's election loss personally.  Like many others, he questions why President Bush did not fire Donald Rumsfeld one day before the vote, as opposed to one day after?:

"If Rumsfeld had been out, you bet it would have made a difference," Sen. Arlen Specter  (R-Pa.) said on television. "I'd still be chairman of the Judiciary Committee."

It is still inconclusive as to whether firing Rumsfeld before the vote would have made any difference in the Virginia or Missouri Senate races.  But if you were in Specter's shoes, wouldn't you be mad too?  He lost his chairmanship position of one of the most powerful committees in all of Congress.

Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) now takes over as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.