If Senator Durbin is right, and the real goal of the U.S. war in Libya is to make an international diplomatic maneuver, then Barack Obama has no good excuse for not seeking a congressional resolution approving of war first.
Dennis Kucinich has begun crafting legislation to bring the Executive Branch back into accordance with the Constitution, in the form of a budgetary amendment that cuts off all funding to President Obama’s new war.
Dennis Kucinich was asking liberals and conservatives to come together around bedrock American values – the values of the Bill of Rights.
If Dutch Ruppersberger will be true to his word, he must oppose the renewal of the Patriot Act’s affront to American liberty. Join the protest March 12 in DC to remind him, and all members of Congress, that it is their responsibility to repeal the Patriot Act.
Lamar Smith is not beginning the Patriot Act investigations that were promised. That makes the March 12 protest against the Patriot Act in Washington D.C. especially important.
Judy Chu speaks out against roving wiretaps, and on March 12, protesters will meet outside the U.S. Capitol to demand repeal of the Patriot Act. For more info, see the Patriot Act Protest page on Facebook.
In spite of their promises to strictly honor the Constitution, congressional Republicans last week pushed through a renewal of clearly unconstitutional provisions of the Patriot Act.
For Tom McClintock, supporting the Patriot Act was expected, because he is a Republican. However, McClintock knew that extending the Patriot Act was not the conservative thing to do
More than just Michele Bachmann’s presidential ambitions may have been put at risk with the vote to renew the Patriot Act. The Republican majority in the House of Representatives may also have been sacrificed.
Most members of the House Tea Party Caucus voted in favor of big government and against constitutional rights in yesterday’s vote on extending the abusive Patriot Act.
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