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| Time to Hold Democratic House Leaders in Contempt | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 30 2008, 03:46 PM (33 Views) | |
| mynameis | Jan 30 2008, 03:46 PM Post #1 |
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It's Time to Hold Democratic House Leaders in Contempt By Naomi Wolf Posted January 25, 2008 | 05:19 PM (EST) Enough is enough. Like many of us, after having watched helplessly as the Bush administration trampled the Constitution and made a mockery of checks and balances over the course of five bitter years, I was hopeful when the American people elected a Democratic Congress in November of 2006. Finally, I imagined, we would have a whiff of legality and the hint of a restoration of the rule of law in the land. Perhaps we would even have congressional committees to oversee the administration's subversions of the rule of law and investigate the wide range of abuses that it had perpetrated since 2001. ... Remember this: each and every member of Congress took an oath -- and the oath was not to some abstract government, it was an oath TO YOU -- to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States." Unlike many good people across the political spectrum who are appalled at this dismantling of the three-part system the founders put in place and the besmirching of the rule of law, Congressional Republicans have clearly decided to place their allegiance to the president and their party over their allegiance to the Constitution. This is bad enough; this is, in fact, treason. But the Democrats do not even have that party allegiance as an excuse for their treachery. They would be standing up for their party, the institution of Congress, and the Constitution by passing the contempt resolutions. What more will it take to get them to act? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/its-time-to-hold-democra_b_83322.html Edited by mynameis, Jan 30 2008, 03:48 PM.
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