Karl and Dobson’s pillow talk

Looks like Arlen Specter, chairman of the Judiciary Committee is very interested in what the White House, more specifically Karl Rove, told FOF frontman James (Squarepants) Dobson to allay his fears about supreme court nominee Harriet Miers and earn at least a lukewarm endorsement from Dobson.

Courtesy of the New York Times and as seen on “This Week” with George Stephanopolous, Dobson said in his radio address last week that he had been told things he probably shouldn’t know, but he couldn’t divulge them, and what he had been told convinced him to support the nomination of Harriet Miers to the SCOTUS.

Specter is quoted as saying:

“If Dr. Dobson knows something that he shouldn’t know or something that I ought to know, I’m going to find out,” Mr. Specter said Sunday in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News program “This Week.”

In response to a later question, Mr. Specter added, “If there are back-room assurances and if there are back-room deals and if there is something which bears upon a precondition as to how a nominee is going to vote, I think that’s a matter that ought to be known by the Judiciary Committee and the American people.”

Dobson acknowledged talking to Rove before making his statement.

It’s fun to see the growing chorus of suspicion surrounding this administration and Karl Rove in particular.  The president is clearly using code language to calm the fears of evangelical christians, and it certainly appears as if Rove crossed another ethical line in making Dobson privvy to information that the rest of us apparently don’t have the right to know.

Hopefully it will be a fun week watching Rove circle the drain.

Looks like Arlen Specter, chairman of the Judiciary Committee is very interested in what the White House, more specifically Karl Rove, told FOF frontman James (Squarepants) Dobson to allay his fears about supreme court nominee Harriet Miers and earn at least a lukewarm endorsement from Dobson.

Courtesy of the New York Times and as seen on “This Week” with George Stephanopolous, Dobson said in his radio address last week that he had been told things he probably shouldn’t know, but he couldn’t divulge them, and what he had been told convinced him to support the nomination of Harriet Miers to the SCOTUS.

Specter is quoted as saying:

“If Dr. Dobson knows something that he shouldn’t know or something that I ought to know, I’m going to find out,” Mr. Specter said Sunday in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News program “This Week.”

In response to a later question, Mr. Specter added, “If there are back-room assurances and if there are back-room deals and if there is something which bears upon a precondition as to how a nominee is going to vote, I think that’s a matter that ought to be known by the Judiciary Committee and the American people.”

Dobson acknowledged talking to Rove before making his statement.

It’s fun to see the growing chorus of suspicion surrounding this administration and Karl Rove in particular.  The president is clearly using code language to calm the fears of evangelical christians, and it certainly appears as if Rove crossed another ethical line in making Dobson privvy to information that the rest of us apparently don’t have the right to know.

Hopefully it will be a fun week watching Rove circle the drain.