Reply #3: Specter didn't get the judiciary chair until AFTER the GOP had 55 [View All]

[Hippo_Tron]

With 55 Senate seats it didn't matter one way or the other whether he bolted. If Hatch's term had been up in 2003, you can bet that they wouldn't have even had second thoughts about giving Specter the chair because his bolting would've put them back to 50/50 and power sharing and might've caused Chafee to bolt as well which would've put them back to where they were before the midterms.