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A CONSTITUTIONAL CORRECTION FOR SNARLIN? ARLEN SPECTER: Bleh. You just disagree with the call. I?

By Glenn Reynolds

A CONSTITUTIONAL CORRECTION FOR SNARLIN’ ARLEN SPECTER:

Bleh. You just disagree with the call. I hate this sort of political posturing. It’s not the massiveness of the congressional record that makes a statute constitutional. It’s fitting within the Constitution.

Specter is acting as if the question at the confirmation hearing was: If we put a really, really huge number of words into the record, do you promise to let us do anything we want? And the answer was: Yes, of course. When I see a lot of pages, I always think, wow, that must be true.

Specter is a rare creature. Most Senators only disgrace one party, but he’s managed to embarrass both.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on December 22, 2010 (boomark / email).