Incidentally, if you live in the state of Pennsylvania, the most important thing you can do this entire year is go out tommorrow and vote for Pat Toomey in the Republican primary.

Arlen Specter has been a four term disaster, but a fifth term is simply too frightening to contemplate. If Specter were to serve a fifth term, he would be in line to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee, among other things. One shudders at the prospect.

Vote early and vote often, as they say in Chicago. This is the most important non-presidential election in the country this year.