via Avedon, I see that Lambert is on the same path I am regarding the necessity of the Dems running for president to make some real noise about their plans to undo the damage to the Constitution that BushCo has wrought:
Since I won’t be in Chicago, I thought I’d put the Constitutional Question now.
Is the replacement of Constitutional government by tyranny under Bush on anyone’s radar?
Last week I wrote:
I want all the presidential candidates to, at every opportunity, condemn specific steps this president has taken to undermine the Constitution and to pledge to reverse them ALL on his/her first day in office. I am vastly more concerned with their reluctance to do that than I am even with BushCo's persistence on his unconstitutional path. (from BushCo I worry that we'll get another 9/11) The damage he's done can be contained not only by impeachment (which would be my first choice in a reasonable world but is not in this one) but also by immediate repudiation of what he's done over the last two terms by whoever gets elected to succeed him.
That's a drum we should be beating. As I've noted, Chris Dodd is the only candidate making even the vaguest noises about making moves in this direction once he's president. Where is everyone else? That they aren't taking a stand on this issue should be a big problem for all of us who want to see the country put back on some sort of less-totalitarian course.
Has it occurred to anyone that maybe the Dems want access to some of those unConstitutional powers?
Posted by: mick arran | August 02, 2007 at 06:54 PM