Arlen Specter: Psyche! By No Means Is Spygate Over

Arlen Specter is vigilant, I'll give him that. He may not be particularly well spoken -- just a few days ago the Pennsylvania senator told the Philadelphia Daily News' editorial board that "I've gone as far as I can" with Spygate, and suggested that he'd drop the matter some four months after the rest of us.

Yeah, forget that. As it turns out, his comments to the Daily News people "didn't really come out with the proper flavor." Translation: I'm nailing Bill Belichick's ass to the wall, no matter what it takes. Constituents be damned!

"My view on the overall situation is that we may well see the other shoe drop somewhere," Specter said. "We went about as far as we could go, given the public attitude today about the economy and gas prices and Iraq. We're always very careful about initiating a Congressional investigation.

"But that isn't to say, by any means, it's over."

Fantastic. My advice: Specter should hire Kenneth Starr to head up the investigation, and that way, in addition to occasionally unearthing a Spygate-related nugget, we'll get the gratuitous erotic tidbit tangentially having to do with football. Good times.

Despite a lack of support from, well, everyone, Specter trudges on. He admits to being "a little surprised more people weren't concerned" about Spygate, but because NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is trying to "minimize the impact" of the cheating allegations, the good senator will continue to fight the good fight. All by himself.