THE PERILS OF WASHINGTON TOTALITARIANISM

What will happen if the Dems win back at least one body of Congress?

THE PERILS OF WASHINGTON TOTALITARIANISM - Yahoo! News:

"The theoretician-turned-practitioner, a Democrat who represents the Chapel Hill-Durham area, answered in two words: 'Subpoena power!'

There was some applause, but I was not sure everyone there understood what he meant. This is it: The only way to restore constitutional checks and balances in Washington before 2008 is for the opposition to win one house of Congress and have the power to call witnesses at public hearings and ask, under oath:

'What the hell is going on here?'

What is going on in the White House? The Defense Department? The CIA and the NSA? With gasoline prices? Along the border between California and Mexico? In Baghdad? In New Orleans? With Jack Abramoff and the K Street Gang? In Congress itself?

Or, who is listening to your phone calls? Are your taxes being used to teach torture techniques to your sons and daughters? Are the glaciers melting?

We'll be the last to know."