Let No Bad Deed Go Punished

Arlen Spector's concern over the President's illegal wiretapping is laughable. Specter, who currently has two bills in his Judiciary Committee to alter the law to make the President's actions legal, states his outrage in today's Washington Post. From the Post:

"They want to do just as they please, for as long as they can get away with it," Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I think what is going on now without congressional intervention or judicial intervention is just plain wrong."

Really, no kidding, but the bills Spector plans on rolling out to a full Senate vote don't do anything about that. They are, in fact, an application of oil to the slippery slope that our civil liberties balance upon. By simply making the President's actions legal, what's to deter him from grasping even more power away from the Congress in the future. I mean, come on.

Of course, if Spector really cared about the President's illegal activities, he probably shouldn't have pushed two yes-men for the President through his Judiciary Committee to the Supreme Court. Spector has helped shape the Court into one that is likely to rule for this administration over no matter what laws they violate.