Gettysburg redux

Eleven score and ten years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Today, that experiment has ended, and government of the people, by the people, for the people, has now perished from the earth..

As Keith Olbermann said the other day, (I paraphrase) "Arlen Specter is the only thing standing between us and a dictatorship." Today Arlen Specter stepped aside to allow the dictatorship to assume full power.