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I used to like Arlen Specter and then I didn't like him but now, I think I like him again.

It is interesting that he has 'betrayed' the GOoPer right wing by suddenly swinging back left again (which means mildly right).

My personal theory is that he has gotten some spiritual strength from the onset of his Hodgkins Disease and realizes how foolish it is to piss away his life working for such assholes as Dobson et. al., the shits.

Here is Andrew Sullivan's comment today.

I cannot imagine that bush gave him a late night meeting. Weak weak weak.

Three months ago the President would have delighted in jamming an untra conservative like Janice Rogers Brown down the Senate's throat while invoking the nuclear option and spitting in each Democratic senator's eye. Fast forward to this week, when he was forced to accept a late night visit from Arlen Spector, who had the audacity to demand that Bush replace O'Conner with a "moderate justice" in order to "maintain the balance." This the same Spector who was on his knees vowing fealty to the President just last year.

The Roberts nomination is not a sign that Bush is finally getting "sensible" on judicial matters. It's an indication of just how politically weak he's become. Roberts is just conservative enough to squeeze by the Dobson crowd without howls of anger. He is arguably the least conservative of Bush's "short list" of nominees. Clearly, Bush and Rove were terrified about losing this battle to the Democrats and moderate Republican senators. Having lost already social security and with the Rove scandal boiling, such a loss would be too devastating to contemplate.