Brent Budowsky: Congress Caves, Bloggers Absent, Constitution Loses

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/9193

Congress Caves, Bloggers Absent, Constitution Loses
by Brent Budowsky | Aug 6 2007


All Democratic candidates for President should announce today that their administration will enforce the laws and fully prosecute any criminal offenses that might be committed today under the protection of the most corrupt Attorney General in the history of the nation.

The last 72 hours was a devastating time for the American constitution and neither our Democratic Leaders nor the blogging world at the Kos convention waged the fight that the occasion demanded.

The Congressional capitulation to a radical expansion of unilateral presidential powers over warrantless eavesdropping is one of the darkest hours in the history of the rule of law.

In this capitulation, which does not even bear the pretense of a compromise and was in fact a total surrender to the most extreme vision of unitary presidential power, it is the most incompetent and dishonest Attorney General in history who determines what is legal and what is "reasonable."

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Lets remember that FISA violations are crimes punishable by prison. If indeed it is ultimately determined that the law violated there are hundreds of thousands to millions of criminal violations, each punishable by imprisonment.

It is an outrage the President, Vice President and Attorney General sought to legalize what would otherwise be criminal.

It is an outrage the Democrats who control Congress lacked the steel to make this fight.

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The day must come now, today, when never again will a Democratic Congress capitulate on first principle matters of American law and principled conservatives will never again tolerate such abuses of power and disrespect for law by their party, or any party.
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