You wrote:
"People, THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION. None!!! Once we find an excuse to keep Jose Padilla in jail without trial, no one is safe from the same treatment. Bush deserves defeat and prison just for that one act."
There is also no excuse for flying jumbo jets full of
civilians into New York City skyscrapers. Bush is
trying to prevent that, or worse.
Nor is there an excuse for blowing off the head of a
woman standing with her child in her arms. Beslan?
No, Clinton's FBI in Ruby Ridge.
I didn't see or hear any dissent from the *LEFT*,
and not too much from the libertarians, after that.
If Ashcroft were half the dictator he is made out to be,
Michael Moore would already be in a concentration camp.
But you are right to be cautious about giving Democrats
that kind of power (see prior paragraph).
So what do you suggest? If Bush has the power than so will the next Democratic president. No matter how much you trust Bush not to misuse it, you must fight the precedent to prevent a future president Hillary from having that power.