Give 'em hell Al!

[LuckyTheDog]

Gore to Address "Constitutional Crisis":

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060113/cm_thenation/149140

Bush's response will be:
"Why, there isn't any Constitutional crisis! And just for saying that, I'm sending you to GITMO without any due process!"

[leftstreet]

1. I believe CSPAN is covering it. Monday, Noon (9:00 am pt)

[dweller]

2. just a bit more, (recommended reading)

Indeed, his aides and allies are framing it as a "call to arms" in defense of the Bill of Rights and the rule of law in a time of executive excess.

The vice president will, according to the groups that have arranged for his appearance -- the bipartisan Liberty Coalition and the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy -- address "the threat posed by policies of the Bush Administration to the Constitution and the checks and balances it created. The speech will specifically point to domestic wiretapping and torture as examples of the administration's efforts to extend executive power beyond Congressional direction and judicial review."

Coming only a few weeks after U.S. Representative John Conyers (news, bio, voting record), the ranking Democrat on the
House Judiciary Committee, introduced resolutions to censure
President Bush and Vice President Cheney, and to explore the issue of impeachment, Gore in expected to "make the case that the country -- including the legislative and judicial branches and all Americans -- must act now to defend the systems put into place by the country's founders to curb executive power or risk permanent and irreversible damage to the Constitution."

Don't expect a direct call for impeachment from the former vice president. But do expect Gore to make reference to
Richard Nixon, whose abuses of executive authority led to calls for his impeachment -- a fate the 37th president avoided by resigning in 1974.

Gore's speech will add fuel to the fire that was ignited when it was revealed that Bush had secretly authorized National Security Agency to monitor communications in the United States without warrants. Gore will argue that the domestic wiretapping policy is only the latest example of the administration exceeding its authority under the Constitution.

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dp

[LuckyTheDog]

3. Kick!

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[LuckyTheDog]

4. dupe

dupe... sorry. I kept getting an error message

[LuckyTheDog]

7. Dupe

dupe... sorry. I kept getting an error message

[LuckyTheDog]

5. dupe

dupe... sorry. I kept getting an error message

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. I can't wait for this!

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