Dear Senator Schumer... We are in a constitutional crisis...

senator charles schumer writes in the huffpo...

Today marks the first day of the new Congress and hopefully a new era of working together on issues that help middle class families. From strengthening our homeland security to making college more affordable, this is what we're all here to do and must get done, starting right now.

Take, for example; the War in Iraq. It now seems that the President will move forward with sending more troops. An escalation in the war, particularly with no change in strategy, makes no sense. We are policing a civil war right now in Iraq. And whether the troops stay three months or three years, as soon as they leave the Sunnis and Shiites will resume fighting with one another and nothing will have been accomplished. The bottom line is we need a change in strategy. Both the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee will convene hearings next week to help cerate a change of strategy.

i am sure he has all the good intentions in the world, but...

Dear Senator Schumer,

With all due respect, while I agree that the issues you list ARE important to the American people, there is one that's considerably more important that you either do not recognize or that you choose not to address - the grave constitutional crisis that's facing our country under the president's insatiable drive for unfettered executive power. All of those other important issues, in my opinion and the opinion of many others, simply MUST take a back seat until that one is resolved. President Bush has been driving the United States pell-mell toward an authoritarian state, accumulating draconian powers, and essentially abdicating the founders' principle of three separate but equal branches of government. This must be stopped. Please take this to heart. January 2009 may be too late.

i don't believe i am understating when i say constitutional "crisis..." the revelation of yet another signing statement that gives the executive branch the power to open and read people's mail is yet another example of the egregious lengths to which this administration is going to accumulate raw power... this cannot be allowed to continue...

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