So what are we to make of Arlen Specter these days?Sure, he’s garnering all of the headlines for making noise as if he’s actually going to sue Dubya over the signing statements, but while this is going on, as Shayana Kadidal of The Huffington Post explains, he’s contemplating a truly Faustian bargain with Bushco by going along with Dubya’s nonsensical argument (advocated by this cretin) that the president’s wartime power supersedes Congressional oversight regarding FISA law (Christy at firedoglake has been all over this like “white on rice” also).
Of all of my issues with Arlen Specter, this could turn out to be the biggest. I would have thought that he, who has demonstrated lucid moments of sanity at times, would have recognized that preserving our government’s separation of powers always trumps political expediency. More fool me, I guess.
Aside from contacting Specter and telling him to knock this off (which I did a couple of days ago), we should contact ALL of our senators and tell them the same thing.
And to think that this guy actually called US out once for not protesting over Abu Gonzales and what this administration actually considers as torture.
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