OK, so you attack the messenger and ignore the message. I can't say I'm surprised, nor are my expectations disappointed, but I'll point to another messenger you surely can't dismiss as a leftie.
americanfreedomagenda.org
Since 9/11, President Bush's repeated assaults on the Constitution and celebration of international lawlessness in confronting al Qaeda have needlessly made Americans less safe. The president, for example, has flouted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in intercepting the conversations and e-mails of American citizens on American soil on his say-so alone. He has claimed authority to break into and enter our homes, open our mail and commit torture in order to collect foreign intelligence.
He has insisted that the entire United States is a battlefield -- even pizza parlors -- where lethal military force may be employed to kill al Qaeda suspects with bombs or missiles. He has detained citizens and noncitizens alike as enemy combatants based on secret evidence. And he has insisted that he is constitutionally empowered to keep U.S. troops in Iraq indefinitely.
Here's the danger he thinks the constitution is in: remember those signing statements I was warning of?
prnewswire.com
... Declare that all signing statements issued by President George Bush or his predecessors that announce refusals to enforce provisions of laws that the President asserted were unconstitutional will be denied of all force and effect. Every law signed by any President must be fully enforced.
Fein insists these steps are essential to restoring constitutional government featuring checks and balances and suspicion of presidential wars. Fein's statement challenges both candidates to surrender powers usurped by the Bush Administration and its predecessors that have taken the nation dangerously close to one-branch government.
Here's another you might like.
acdalliance.org
Go on, leave them a comment calling them socialists.
Prefer this site?
libertycoalition.net
Mr. Fein reveals the dangers faced by our Constitution and our nation courtesy of the Bush Administration and a Congress asleep at the wheel. In blistering detail, he deconstructs the policies of Bush in the War on Terror--from the flouting of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to the crippling of the Great Writ of habeas corpus--and forecasts that the damage done is unlikely to be repaired by a kindhearted successor.
Fein's an obvious leftie? The opposite.
Under President Ronald Reagan, Fein served as an associate deputy attorney general from 1981 to 1982 and as general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission. In 1987, he served as the minority (minority party) research director of the committee in the United States House of Representatives that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair. ... He has also worked for the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation, both conservative think tanks, as an analyst and commentator.
In March 2007, he founded the American Freedom Agenda with Bob Barr, David Keene and Richard Viguerie.
What do Democrats think of Fein?
He admits he voted for Bush and Cheney twice, supported the appointments of John Roberts and Samuel Alito with no apparent regrets, proposes Robert Bork as a model justice, admires Rehnquist and Scalia, supported the impeachment of Bill Clinton and wanted him convicted, served as associate deputy attorney general to Ronald Reagan and general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission under Reagan (who -- you'll recall -- eliminated the Fairness Doctrine), worked as research director for Congressman Dick Cheney when they blocked investigation of Reagan's Iran-Contra crimes and prevented his impeachment, has been a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, opposes Roe v. Wade and affirmative action and any minimum wage, supports discrimination against homosexuals, and -- in an unfortunate bit of timing -- openly declares on page 20 that he "frowns on government regulation … to manipulate or distort free market choices."
Again:
conservablogs.com
Other sources quoted:
en.wikipedia.org
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