Akkam’s Razor

…to the Honorable Senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter.  More over at PhillyFuture:

I ask you to reflect on your legacy, and to act as other patriots did in Philadelphia so many years ago, here in Philadelphia. Despite grave risks to their person and reputation, they stood up to a tyrant named George, and vowed that certain rights were inalienable, and offenses against those rights were grave enough to warrant extreme measures.

I urge you to review the documents that underpin our government, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution, and read them as a MAN and as an AMERICAN, not as a Republican, and ask yourself if you are being true to the word and the spirit of the founding fathers. Throughout your career, you have “spoke truth to power”, whether as a Republican District Attorney fighting corruption in Philadelphia, criticizing the conduct of your own party at the conclusion of the Clinton Impeachment, and your politically brazen warnings to the President over the future of the Supreme Court. I hope that you will once again answer the call now that your country needs you.