Stand Up

Christy Hardin Smith has the full text of Chris Dodd's speech in the Senate yesterday. Read it. Pass it along. Make sure everyone you know sees it.

Dodd is shaping up into the only real leader running for president.

And as an echo of this, read this editorial by Scott Wilson from the Port Townsend and Jefferson County (WA) Leader:

The wisdom of the people who wrote our nation's basic legal code remains intact. Executive power, especially in a time of high passion, must be restrained. Even the powerful must live within the law. The fact that our institutions forget this from time to time is a pattern we have seen before. Ultimately it's up to the common people to remember that freedom and liberty are not nouns, but verbs. They require constant vigilance and constant effort. Eventually little wins by the common people will add up to something significant.