Arlen Spector

Here's the Onion's take on Arlen Specter's defection to the Democrats.

This highlights a fact that few considered during the presidential election. We weren't voting on John McCain's policies vs. Barack Obama's. We were voting on whether or not we wanted a check on a left wing Congress. With Democrats in firm control of both houses, John McCain wasn't going to get much of his agenda passed, but he could have stood in the way of the radical transformation of our country that is currently under way.