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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 08:41 AM
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Law or Lawlessness
Edited on Fri Aug-03-07 08:44 AM by Donnachaidh
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080307J.shtml

We are not a nation of laws, if law cannot be enforced at the highest levels of our government. It's that simple.

Noting the Constitution assigns both the right and the obligation to Congress to intercede when the executive branch violates the law is one thing, asking Congress to actually do it, is apparently, quite another. While it is agonizingly obvious the time has more than arrived for Congress to do what the Constitution mandates, namely rein in a rogue president, such action would be extraordinary nonetheless.

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Mounting a serious legal challenge to the executive branch is a daunting task for Congress under any circumstances. However, as the breadth and scope of this White House's transgressions are totally unprecedented, so too is the challenge Congress faces. Never in its history has America been confronted with an executive branch so determined to break every law designed to regulate its conduct. In the words of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "The American people don't know the half of it."

More at the link above --

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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 08:51 AM
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1. The scary thing is as Pelosi says if we don't know the half of it.
Do we really want to know the whole of it?
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 09:01 AM
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2. Wrong..
Actually, bringing the president to terms with his crimes
and flouting of the law and the Constitution is easy.

It's a matter of will.

That's where America has broken down.. the will to
do the right thing has disintegrated into a maniacal,
criminal whim of iron.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 09:32 AM
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3. If the Democratic Congress is not up to the task to take back our country
We should all call, call, call and tell them we will find congress people with spines. Who are not afraid to meet the challenge. There is no way in hell bush and his mysterious administration are going to give up the whitehouse. Some way some how he is going to find a way to extend his dictatorship. NO WAY WILL THEY GIVE UP ALL THIS POWER HE HAS STOLEN, INCLUDING THE PRESIDENCY TO BEGIN WITH, to a democrat. Think about it.
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