I’m still not sure that Cindy Sheehan is making the right move in threatening to challenge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi next year, but she is right about the weakness of the Democrats.
They need some backbone — especially when it comes to defending the basic principles of our constitution.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in a farely pointed editorial today, calls the Democrats “gutless chumps” who “are worried about being cast as weak on terrorism” and “willing to cave before they fully understand how thoroughly they were hoodwinked by President Bush on other surveillance matters.”
Congress has only a scant notion of how contemptuously the White House has treated a 1978 law that requires special judicial review of surveillance in intelligence cases. And what are the Democrats poised to do? Give the executive branch anything it wants.
“Gutless chumps” might be an understatement.
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