The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it
-- Omar Khayyam (Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat)

For a more recent sample of the handwriting on the wall, the reader is referred to the BBC news here which notes that a US court has for the first time rejected the classification of a prisoner held in Guantanamo Bay as an "enemy combatant".

Looks like the game is up for the administration on this one.