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Questions for Speaker Pelosi

Netroots Nation 2008

abra2345

	abra2345 Member since : Jul-07-2008 (Verified)
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Restoring the Constitution and the Balance of Power

Posted by abra2345 07/07/2008 12:00 AM PDT

The single most important task of Congress is to protect and defend the Constitution. A strong Constitution protects the Nation, and thus We The People and as such, is paramount for our national security. Congress is the voice, the will, the protector, and the conscious of We The People. Given the Congress' acquiescence to all measure of executive overreaching for the past 7-1/2 years, what will the Congress finally do to restore the balance of power by reigning in a near-unitary executive, by holding them to account for any crimes committed against the Constitution and against We The People, and by using punitive measures to prevent such crimes from ever happening again? Given the past 7-1/2 years, what assurances can you give us that crimes against the Constitution and the American people will not be swept under the rug to be repeated by a future administration, dangerously emboldened by history's precedent of getting away with it?

Comments (11)Category/Tags : Issues: Domestic (121) constitution checks and balances balance of power we the people

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abra2345

07/08/2008

I think you pose a great question. I don't understand why it is getting voted down. After all, should Congress not be concerned with great things that will confront the very biggest problems that we face - that people 1,000 years may look back on the way we look back on the Romans, the Greeks, and other great civilizations and ask what they did that changed the course of their history (and ours). Thumbs up from me!

abra2345

07/08/2008

Given the magnitude of the problems we face that threaten the very foundation of our nation and our ability to survive on this planet; from catastrophic environmental destruction to enabling a complete dismantling of the Constitution, to amassing trillions of dollars in debts, to sacrificing for decades our ability to have clean, affordable, renewable energy to the profit interests of polluting, non-renewable, conflict breeding, and cartel priced oil companies, what, if anything, are you working on now that future citizens will look back on and be thankful for?