Specter Reads Writing on Wall:

And concludes his best route is to switch horses 'cause he ain't no longer in mid-stream. Sen. Arlen Specter, having once been a Democrat, returns to the fold, following his previous party's flirtation with the ultra right. What was a good Jewish boy doing with a bunch of Southern Baptists anyway. By-the-by, some 200,000 PA voters switched parties last year and joined the Democrats.
(Read the story and see the senator smile at NPR.org.)

Will the senate now be filibuster proof? (See The New York Times' story.) The question now is in the hands of the court. Minnesotans and the rest of the country are waiting to see if comedian Al Franken will be seated after having narrowly defeated his Republican opponent this past fall. However, we all remember how a Republican dominated court elected George W. Bush the first time in 2000 after Al Gore won the popular vote. Once things enter the legal system, it's a coin toss, which might explain why so many innocent victims remain in jail.