The great surrender

[struggle4progress]

By Bill Press, Syndicated columnist
GHS
Sun Aug 12, 2007, 12:22 AM EDT

Use it or lose it. That's the first lesson of political power - which Democrats still haven't learned ...

Clearly, any necessary corrections to FISA could have waited until September. If not - if there really were a terrorist threat that demanded immediate action (none was cited by the administration) - surely it would have been worth sacrificing a couple of days at the beach, rather than simply throwing the Fourth Amendment out the window and running out of town ...

Today, Democrats have the power. But if they don't start using their power to end the war in Iraq and stop Bush's outlaw presidency, they're going to lose it all.

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