We here at Progressive Patriots stand with Mr. Schwarz in criticizing the government’s program of undermining the authority of the Constitution in favor of the authority of individual political leaders in the Executive Branch. We engage in this criticism because we love the promise of America, and we want our liberty back.

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Under this law, all the Bush White House has to do is present a piece of paper to a court claiming the privilege of granting legal immunity to a corporation, and then the court has no choice but to grant that immunity. Thanks to John Dingell for sharing this unfortunate truth.

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Congressman Paul Broun from Georgia seems to hate the idea that all Americans are equal under the law. Representative Broun has proposed a new amendment to the Constitution to create a loophole around the 14th amendment. The new amendment aims to reduce the number of marriages in America by restricting marriage to only heterosexual couples.

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It’s not the job of the federal government to go around declaring which years are best to participate in religion or another. The President of the United States shouldn’t be issuing declarations that it’s a good year for Christianity in 2008, but not so much in 2009, and that 2010 is a good year to be Buddhist, while Zoroastrianism is just the thing for 2011.

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If Steve Pearce loves the oil corporations so much, why doesn’t he just go work for them? Oh, wait. That was a dumb question. Steve Pearce is working for the oil corporations already… as a member of the United States Congress.

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The FISA Amendments Act gives the government the power to send spies to search your home or office while you are gone, without any search warrant, without any judicial approval at all, and never tell you that they were there. Again, if the FISA Amendments Act becomes law you won’t have to even be suspected of a crime. The government will be able to search your home for no reason at all, or for political reasons, or because you’re gay, or because you’re African-American, or because you’re not a member of the right religion, or just because somewhere in the government there is somebody who doesn’t like you.

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Why should Democrats bother supporting Obama or Clinton when they won’t keep their promises to Democratic voters? Why should either Obama or Clinton be made President when they won’t do the job they have now as senators? If Clinton and Obama won’t act to defend our freedom from illegal government spying now, why should we believe that either one would defend our freedom as President?

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Virginia Foxx used to be against earmarks, but then she was for them, though she promises to be against them some time in the future. Typical Republican doubletalk.

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