Cap Times: Most Congressmen Have Abandoned Constitution
Posted Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 1:50:22 PM
In a scathing editorial directed at the Bush administration’s warantless wiretapping program, the Capital Times commends Madison’s Rep. Tammy Baldwin for standing up against what she called an attempt to “legislatively amend the 4th amendment.”
Furthermore, it contrasts her principle with the members who voted in favor of the program, asserting “most members abandoned their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution. And Americans would be well advised to remove the offenders from their positions.”
Although it is highly unusual for a newspaper to quote a politician at such length, the exception given to Baldwin’s eloquent speech against the abadonment of civil liberties, by Democrats and Republicans alike, was poignantly appropriate for the week of the 4th of July.
Posted by Jack Craver.
Dave St. Amant (July 4, 2008 @ 10:48am):
You are mistaken about Tammy and her stance on this issue. It isn't your fault, The Cap Times decided to scam their readers and you were taken in along with everyone else.
The facts are as follows: 1) John Nichols wrote a very stern opinion piece taking Tammy to task for ignoring this issue (along with most other issues of citizen rights). 2) Within an hour Tammy had signed on to the Kucinich bill. She was so frightened by it that she ran (not walked) over to Dennis' office to sign his bill.
This IS NOT COURAGE! This is blatant political cowardice.
I am running against Tammy this fall (as a democrat) in an attempt to push her to the left on issues that will decide what sort of country we live in for the remainder of our lives and our children's lives. John Nichols was able to move her with one article.
Perhaps I should be running to be John Nichols.
Here are the two versions of the same piece by John Nichols:
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/293146
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/293276
As I said earlier, The Cap Times has not kept the original article linked, so there is no way for anyone to know it was written. I happened to see it and noticed that less than an hour later it had been altered.
John should really insist that both versions remain linked so that the people of the second district would know what kind of a congresswoman they have representing them.
Thanks for the opportunity to present this to you.
Dave St. Amant
SeeDaveRun.com
Anonymous (July 6, 2008 @ 2:13pm):
Since when does the Cap Times care about "protecting and defending" the Constitution?
Those oaths didn't seem all too important a year and a half ago: http://www.madison.com/tct/archives/index.php?archAction=arch_read&a_from=search&a_file=%2Ftct%2F2007%2F01%2F15%2F0701150232.php&var_search=Search&keyword_field=oath&pub_code_field=tct&from_date_field=20070101&to_date_field=20070701&var_start_pos=0&var_articles_per_page=10
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