Congress! Wake Up!! Yes you too, Republicans

if Bush prevails in this blatant grab of power you have made yourselves irrelevant. He doesn't need you anymore. The whole of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution are no longer any good. He can negate the whole thing by executive fiat and what are you going to do about it? He just told you he rules.

balances" (past time in my opinion) but glad to hear someone there calling for it.

from within; bush is an emotionally flat lunatic & dems have to protest to the heavens if need be

Lots of people swear an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic".

Bush is an admitted enemy of the Constitution out of his own mouth with this latest admission.

Cooperating with him or enabling him in any way is breaking that oath.

:thumbsup:

http://byrd.senate.gov/newsroom/news_dec/law_for_all.html

Here's a little snippet.

I continue to be shocked and astounded by the breadth with which the Administration undermines the constitutional protections afforded to the people, and the arrogance with which it rebukes the powers held by the Legislative and Judicial Branches. The President has cast off federal law, enacted by Congress, often bearing his own signature, as mere formality. He has rebuffed the rule of law, and he has trivialized and trampled upon the prohibitions against unreasonable search and seizures guaranteed to Americans by the United States Constitution.

We are supposed to accept these dirty little secrets. We are told that it is irresponsible to draw attention to President Bush’s gross abuse of power and Constitutional violations. But what is truly irresponsible is to neglect to uphold the rule of law. We listened to the President speak last night on the potential for democracy in Iraq. He claims to want to instill in the Iraqi people a tangible freedom and a working democracy, at the same time he violates our own U.S. laws and checks and balances? President Bush called the recent Iraqi election “a landmark day in the history of liberty.” I dare say in this country we may have reached our own sort of landmark. Never have the promises and protections of Liberty seemed so illusory. Never have the freedoms we cherish seemed so imperiled.

Read the whole speech, it will make you feel good. Even better, if C-Span shows it again, watch it. This man was up there trying to control body tremors while he gave this speech. It was incredible to watch.