Specter to Bush: You aren't the only decider (that was just the case when the GOP controlled Congress)

Oh, now Arlen Specter gets a spine. Today, he challenged Bush's self-designation as the decider:

A Senate Republican on Tuesday directly challenged President Bush's declaration that "I am the decision-maker" on issues of war.

"I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider," Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said during a hearing on Congress' war powers amid an increasingly harsh debate over Iraq war policy. "The decider is a shared and joint responsibility," Specter said.

After six years of having GOPers on the Hill, like Specter, roll over for Bush, it's no wonder he thinks he's the sole decider. The GOP-led Congress was a rubber stamp for Bush. Never a challenge. Never a question.

Bush isn't the decider. But, it's not because Arlen Specter says it. Specter and his fellow Republicans had the chance to challenge Bush. They never did. The Democrats will.