M.Ted, it's certainly true that Specter was a liberal in his younger days. (My first girlfriend's mother was active in his campaign in the late 60s, and she was a local Philadelphia politico and a card-carrying liberal.) But don't forget, so was Ronald Reagan!

I'm not all that sure that this episode, as heinous as it is, will "bring Bush down." After all, don't something like 70% of the American people still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11? And that's even after Bush and Rumsfeld said, "Oh, no, we never said that."

Aloha,
Mark