The House Democratic "leadership" is caving in to the administration's demand for broad power to wiretap, and may even agree to give telecommunications companies broad immunity for past actions.
This is in the House remember--where Democrats have a clear, if not very large, majority.
Will they never find the backbone to stand up to Bush's assault on the Constitution? Will they ever stand for the nation that the Founders envisioned--a country that values law and liberty enough to accept the risks that an open society poses?
Up to now, I've been saying that the cure for inaction on Capitol Hill is to elect larger Democratic majorities that will keep the Repubs from hamstringing needed reforms. But the kind of pusillanimity that Democrats have shown on the war and national security leads me to question why we should even bother to work for, or contribute to Democratic candidates.
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Harold Meyerson of the Washington Post has an excellent piece on this subject today.
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