Leahy Could Open with a Teddy Roosevelt Quote: "No Man Is Above the Law"

"Whenever either corporation, labor union, or individual disregards the law or acts in a spirit of arbitrary and tyrannous interference with the rights of others, whether corporations or individuals, then where the Federal Government has jurisdiction, it will see to it that the misconduct is stopped, paying not the slightest heed to the position or power of the corporation, the union or the individual, but only to one vital fact--that is, the question whether or not the conduct of the individual or aggregate of individuals is in accordance with the law of the land. Every man must be guaranteed his liberty and his right to do as he likes with his property or his labor, so long as he does not infringe the rights of others. No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it.

Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor."

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt%27s_Third_State_of_the_Union_Address

That famous quote by a real war-time President (and genuine Republican) applies to Halliburton, to Vinson & Elkins law partners like Alberto Gonzales, and to the current occupant of the Oval.

- Dave

It deserves much wider circulation than it gets. No one ever said it better.

You never know, he just might use it.