Letters to the Editor
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In a way...
...scarily enough, I feel like there's enough imperial inertia to the ever-expanding Executive Branch that it feels like even if the Republicans are swept out in 2008 (again, assuming Bush/Cheney[Rove] let us have free and fair elections -- I feel like we need the UN to monitor our elections, although that would play up with the black helicopter crowd!) -- that we will still have an overly-powerful Executive Branch in dire need of serious pruning, regardless of who is in power.
Sigh. Now Republican James Sensenbrenner is saying it's an unnecessary provocation of a Constitutional crisis. So, along with Chris Cannon's appeasement stance, it looks like these are the talking points the GOP is using on this, the whole "if we push this fight, we will lose" angle instead of recognizing that it was Bush/Cheney(Rove) who initiated the wrongdoing to begin with, and that Congress needs to stop it. The GOP are deriding the Democrats for being partisan, but they're clearly revealing themselves to be the partisan faction in this whole enterprise, in their refusal to part sides with Bush/Cheney(Rove), even in the face of their illegality.
Party loyalty over loyalty to country, law, and government.
Christ, I dearly hope they pay for this in 2008.