Gore's Challenge

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Gore's Challenge

By David S. Broder

Thursday, January 19, 2006; Page A19

Former vice president Al Gore has turned himself into a one-man grand jury, ready to indict the Bush administration for any number of crimes against the Constitution. Whether you agree with Gore's conclusions or not, the speech that the 2000 Democratic nominee for president gave this week in Washington was as comprehensive a rundown of George W. Bush's ventures to the limits of executive authority as anyone could hope to find.

Gore is hardly an objective observer. Having outpolled Bush in the popular vote only to see his apparent victory taken from him by a divided Supreme Court, Gore cannot be expected to be dispassionate about the way Bush is operating as president. His speech is just an indictment. The proof of the charges can come only in congressional hearings and, ultimately, in the courts.

But even after discounting for political motivations, it seems to me that Gore has done a service by laying out the case as clearly and copiously as he has done. His overall charge is that Bush has systematically broken the laws and bent the Constitution by his actions in the areas of national security and domestic anti-terrorism. He is not the first to make that complaint. My e-mail has included many messages from people who have leaped far ahead of the evidence and concluded that Bush should be impeached and removed from office for actions they deem illegal.

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Gore is certainly right about one thing. When he challenged the members of Congress to "start acting like the independent and co-equal branch of government you're supposed to be," he was issuing a call of conscience that goes well beyond any partisan criticism.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/18/AR2006011801874.html

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1. I didn't know there was 2 people named David

S. Broder that wrote for the Washington Post!! Evidently, there is, because this could not possibly have been written by the same David Broder that I see on PBS! Maybe he's been kidnapped by some LIBRULS and forced to write this article against his will? :shrug:

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2. Wrote him a thank you.

We need to keep the heat on and not let this fade. We are truly at a turning point.
Al Gore may not be the Vice-President anymore but for me he is now and will always be the First Citizen!

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3. People should pay more attention to this forum. This is very important.

I read the post at my breakfast place today. This was amazing. He's the "Dean of the DC press corps."

A message here.