Iowa state Rep. Dan Boddicker has launched a “Draft Grassley” drive to block Arlen Specter chairing the Judiciary Committee. But a Grassley aide says her boss, who has most seniority of panel members, “will be serving four more years as chairman of the Finance Committee.” BTW, the trump card Specter holds in this game is his Labor/HHS Appropriations subcommittee chairmanship. Any Senator who helps ditch Specter as Judiciary chairman knows he will eat daily of the dish of revenge the spiteful Pennsylvania solon will serve (“Sorry Chuck, but there’s just not enough money for that Des Moines hospital project …”).

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Jack Fowler is a contributing editor at National Review and a senior philanthropy consultant at American Philanthropic.
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