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Sheep Make Strange Bedfellows

Suzanne Ito,
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August 21, 2007

Last week we launched a new ad campaign and spying oversight. Even FoxNews found it amusing, and covered it in the . Hardly the place we usually look for a shout-out.

Congress and the judiciary have the constitutional duty to put a check on the president's power. When Republicans controlled Congress, the president was able to pass some very nasty legislation (the Military Commissions Act and the reauthorization of the , just to name a couple). And when Democrats took control of Congress last year, we hoped America would finally see the legislature actually fulfill its duty to reign in executive power.

We were wrong. Earlier this month we watched too many Congressional Democrats roll over and play dead as the President rammed the FISA "modernization" bill through both chambers right before the August recess. Some . We agree.

We're not rolling over: We're calling them on their weak-kneed cave-in to the president's Patriot Act-style legislative tactics. We need lions, not , protecting the Constitution. And if you agree, you can help .

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