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To: redfish who wrote (30868)	10/20/2004 1:17:48 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 173976

Bush fails conservatives: Defending the Constitution If there's one thing that conservatives have been known to staunchly defend, it's the US Constitution. And this may be where Bush's betrayal is the most egregious. One glaring example of unconstitutional behavior overseas is the decision to spend $700 million on a "massive, covert public works program" in Kuwait in 2002, although Congress (which alone has constitutional power to decide where money is spent) had allocated that money for the Afghan campaign. Not only that, the Bush people neglected to inform Congress that they had decided to divert the money. This violated Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the US Constitution. Other examples are easy to find, varying from overt (illegal detentions) to more subtle but continual attempts to diminish the civil liberties that define our freedom. The natural repercussion of this behavior is, of course, impeachment, but why has that not happened? Only because the House, for the moment, is in the hands of Republicans, not traditional moderate or conservative Republicans but radicals who apparently have no interest in conserving the validity, the honor, of the US Constitution. washingtonfreepress.org