Chris Dodd seems to be the only one who gives a crap about the Constitution

why, when we are undergoing the most serious assault on the constitution in our nation's history, is it so damn hard for the candidates to step up to that issue...? the only one who's been regularly doing it, although, imho, not nearly strongly or comprehensively enough, has been chris dodd...

Today Senator Dodd released the following statement calling on Democratic Leadership to ensure that telecommunications companies that have violated the law and consumer privacy are not given immunity.

"Today's report that Verizon provided the Bush Administration with personal information of American citizens absent judicial authorization is deeply troubling. We must be told the full extent of Verizon's activities and what other private information they have provided to the Bush Administration.

"More troubling still is that the United States Senate would sanction those telecommunications companies that have violated the law and the privacy of our citizenry, enabling this Administration's assault on the Constitution."

in all fairness, just the other day, hillary made the first statement that i'm aware of regarding bush's illegal and unconstitutional abuse of executive power, although it's also interesting to note that she did not mention the u.s. constitution...

[Hillary Clinton] intends to roll back President Bush's expansion of executive authority, including his use of presidential signing statements to put his own interpretation on bills passed by Congress or to claim authority to disobey them entirely.

"I think you have to restore the checks and balances and the separation of powers, which means reining in the presidency," Clinton told the Boston Globe's editorial board.

Although Bush has issued hundreds of signing statements, declarations that accompany his signature on bills approved by Congress, Clinton said she would use the statements only to clarify bills that might be confusing or contradictory. She also said she did not subscribe to the "unitary executive" theory that argues the Constitution prevents Congress from passing laws limiting the president's power over executive branch operations. Adherents to the theory say any president who refuses to obey such laws is not really breaking the law.

after the past seven years of george w. bush and his fellow criminals, i am simply not ok with a candidate "crossing his/her heart, hoping to die, sticking a needle in the eye," PROMISING not to abuse executive power and to honor the constitution... without teeth, it's all just words, and, god knows, we've had plenty of those...

Submit To Propeller
Tweet