He's a Magic (Bullet) Man

Does anyone else get a creepy feeling when they see Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter sitting next to the senior Democratic member of the committee, Teddy Kennedy?

Every time I see them together it reminds me of Specter's invention of the "magic bullet" theory while a staff attorney on the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of JFK.

The postulated existence of a miraculous "magic bullet" is the only way that the events of November 22, 1963 would not have had to have been caused by more than one gunman.

It is the artifact upon which all conspiracy foes have long hung their hats.

Having the "moderate" Specter in charge of the Senate Judiciary Committee investigation of the extra-legal NSA warrantless eavesdropping gives me a similar uneasy feeling.

This doesn't help:


"During my stewardship here, I'm going to put everybody under oath when we have testimony, as we do on confirmation hearings."

Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, April 5, 2005


And from this Monday,

"It is my judgment that it is unnecessary to swear the witness."

Specter, declining to put Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales under oath, Feb. 6, 2006

Tree-effing-mendous