James Dobson, abortion foe and founder of the evangelical Christian group Focus on the Family,
is promising to discuss his conversations with White House aide Karl Rove regarding Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers.
Dr. James Dobson will devote his Wednesday and Thursday Focus on the
Family radio programs to answering critics who have dogged him over comments he made last week concerning Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers.
The founder and chairman of Focus on the Family spoke to listeners from his heart just days after Miers was nominated by President Bush, saying he supported her in part because of things he had been told by White House adviser Karl Rove.
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"Dr. Dobson is being deluged by requests from national media to talk about Harriet Miers and talk about what Karl Rove told him," said Focus on the Family Senior Vice President for Government and Public Policy Tom Minnery. "He'll be explaining that to everybody."
Oh, Dr. Dobson, you tease. Don't make us wait. Tell us today. Please.
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Dobson's promise comes as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, including chair Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), are
demanding to know what Rove might have said to Dobson, who believes the Supreme Court should overturn the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.
Specter and Vermont Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, the committee's ranking Democrat, said they intend to follow up on a comment by Focus on the Family founder and chairman James C. Dobson that, based on conversations with White House adviser Karl Rove, he believes she opposes abortion and would be a good justice.
"This is a lifetime appointment," Specter said. "If there are backroom assurances and there are backroom 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 proclaimed his support for Miers, the White House counsel with no experience as a judge and no paper trail on constitutional issues like abortion, shortly after President Bush announced the nomination on October 3.
On October 4, Dobson, referring to Miers's credentials, told Fox News: "I do know things that I am not prepared to talk about here."
On October 6, the New York Times reported:
Dr. Dobson acknowledged [on his October 5 radio program] conversations with Karl Rove, the president's top political adviser, about the selection but declined to disclose their contents. "You will have to trust me on this one," he said, adding that if he was wrong, "the blood of those babies" - aborted fetuses - "will be on my hands to some degree."