Stand up to the president or get out of the way

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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Tide turning on Jamesburg library?

Check out tomorrow’s Cranbury Press for a story on what appears to be a change of heart about the proposed referendum to defund the Jamesburg Public Library. Mayor Tony Lamantia and council members Barbara Carpenter and Tom Bodall already want it tabled or killed — just one more council member and it dies.

Read the story and the editorial and then get out to next week’s meeting.

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A traffic fix that makes sense

This proposal for a revision of the traffic pattern at Route 522 and Route 1 (encompassing Stouts Lane, as well) may sound confusing, but it can only make a poor intersection function more logically.

As things stand now, you can’t get from northbound Route 1 to the section of Route 522 known as Promenade Boulevard — a huge issue for residents of Princeton Gate and Princeton Walk. Nor is there an easy and logical way to get into the new Target shopping centere — unless you know the side entrance.

So adding a new reverse jughandle heading north and realigning Stouts just makes sense. Plus it will help with what is becoming an annoying traffic backup from Route 1 heading west that blocks the left-turn access onto Stouts.

Let’s hope the state agrees.

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