However, Specter is going through the motions of opposition. Astoundingly he is the only one doing even that. The analysis above indicates that a very strong case could be made before the Supreme Court that the present regime's actions are illegal.
Lame as he is Specter is the only one who even feels the need even to go through the motions. And he's a Republican.
The Democrats are not spineless, as some people like to complain they are. They are complicit with everything this regime does. In fact, via their conspicuous silence in every conceivable instance of outrage, they are the real backbone of this truly monstrous regime. Truth be known, an in academic circles it was also the Democrats that brought us McCarthyism.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."