Arlen Specter goes over to the new Tsar. The senator has been warning on this maneuver at least since he challenged Dick Cheney and George Bush in 2007 on war-making powers (above). Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and John McCain are watching with cunning interest. The Grand Army retreat from Moscow 1812 was much colder and more ghastly than the Grand Old Party retreat from Washington 2009. Still at the end, the people did get to drive Bonaparte from the palace . He flared again; no matter. When do the Republican voters get to drive the disgraced and defeated Republican leaders from the Hill?  Do they go now or do we drive them out with laughter? Put a powdered wig and leg stockings on Mitch McConnell and Judd Gregg and Dick Shelby, and you have the world's most undead Tories waving their useless pistoles at the mob that's coming for them. Smell the tar! Get up those chicken feathers the old-fashioned way!