And you thought Arlen Specter was just a selfish pol looking for the easiest way to keep his seat . . .

Well, he is, actually. But even so, on Face the Nation yesterday, he claimed "Jack Kemp would be alive today" had this country's federal government followed up on Richard Nixon's 1970 declaration of a "war on cancer". Seeing as how for most of those 38 years (26 of them, to be precise) Republicans were in charge of the White House--and even when Clinton was President, Republicans controlled Congress for 6 years--Specter's lamentation is a notable condemnation of his former party's venal lack of concern for our citizenry.
Way to go, Arlen?
Yikes!