Spectre of the Specter

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090428/ap_on_go_co/us_specter_switch

I’m sure there’s a down side to this, but for now, I say to thee, “hell yes.”
For the last few years that I have been actually paying attention to news, government, and legislation in my idle way, Arlen Specter’s name has been one of the first and few that I distinguished from the rest, the congress-person I actually remember other than my own from MD. This is mostly because the guy has a head on his shoulders and a conscience in his…uh, conscience-compartment. Pretty much every time I hear he’s done something or said something, I’m thinking, “THANK you. Somebody making some damned sense here,” or “Maybe there’s hope after all if this guy’s a veteran Republican.”

So, take that Tom Skerritt!
(Title pun/obscure film reference brought to you by the Roy H. Park School of Communications)