Bob Barr: Picking the Wrong Fight

[kskiska]

Hear ye. Hear Ye. Congress has awakened from its constitutional slumber.

After years of allowing this president to walk all over them -- and in the midst of a still-unfolding constitutional crisis in which the U.S. Congress repeatedly and meekly has acceded to a president claiming unilateral power to ignore laws passed by that institution -- House and Senate leaders from both political parties have gathered up their courage, puffed up their chests, and bellowed that the administration of George W. Bush has gone too far.

What actions have thus roused this once-mighty institution to such indignation? The execution of a search warrant on the office of a Louisiana congressman already apparently caught on tape accepting a $100,000 bribe, and whose freezer in his Washington, D.C., home has already yielded $90,000 in ? literally -- cold cash.

Let's get this straight. The highest leaders of the Congress are upset, and gearing for a fight, not because they have been rendered essentially irrelevant by a power-hungry president, but because the Justice Department executed a search warrant over the weekend on the Capitol Hill office of New Orleans Rep. William Jefferson.

While perhaps this action by the congressional leadership is simply due to sincere, if misguided, late-night strategy session designed to find a way to lift their awful poll numbers -- hovering in the 20s and 30s (22 percent, according to a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll) -- the fact is, they have chosen their battle unwisely.

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http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20060527-111538-4062r.htm

[Vincardog]

1. IF not this WHAT? If not NOW WHEN? I am tired of keeping the damn powder

dry WFT do we need dry powder for?

[Acadia Blue]

2. They have let shub do anythng and now he is coming for them. lol