WH Relies On Congress To Change Laws Admin Has Already Broken-Shielding Them & Their Subordinates

[kpete]

Law or Lawlessness
By Marc Ash
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Friday 03 August 2007

We are not a nation of laws, if law cannot be enforced at the highest levels of our government. It's that simple.

Noting the Constitution assigns both the right and the obligation to Congress to intercede when the executive branch violates the law is one thing, asking Congress to actually do it, is apparently, quite another. While it is agonizingly obvious the time has more than arrived for Congress to do what the Constitution mandates, namely rein in a rogue president, such action would be extraordinary nonetheless.

Mr. Bush and his entourage have not only broken the law, they flaunt it. Moreover, this group that now controls the executive branch even assumes to take the power of law brazenly unto itself; in some cases, even relying on their allies in Congress to change laws the administration had already broken, to retroactively shield White House officials and their subordinates.

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This Congress has been saddled with an unenviable task: They are asked, scripted by the nation's founding fathers, to undertake a rather monumental stand in defense of the republic. The Constitution is clear. What will prevail, law or lawlessness?

more at:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080307J.shtml

[Dr.Phool]

1. With this spineless bunch, Lawlessness wins in a landslide.

[mmonk]

2. So true. Our challenge (as a people) is to find a way to stop it.

[Supersedeas]

3. when will the Corp/Network media outlets get a clue