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Green Mountain Daily — As Senator Leahy bravely tightens the noose around the neck of the Bush “administration,” Vermont Democrats have lent him invaluable political backing in signaling their support for the remedy that ultimately gives him his power in his subpoena showdown — impeachment. The Vermont legislature now stands poised to lend its voice to the growing chorus joining Leahy’s charge.
\nIn her continuing opposition, however, the understandably cautious Speaker Gaye Symington clings ever more tenuously to the excuses she’s invented for herself not to act. With the nation’s eyes on the contest of resolve now being waged between Leahy and Bush, her expressions of concern become increasingly indistinguishable from willful protection of the Bush White House.<\/p>\n

Just as principled, anti-war Democrats in Washington were this week called upon to support an Iraq appropriations bill about which they had grave misgivings, so the time has come for Symington to reconsider the bottom line consequences of her trepidation. Senator Leahy, on behalf of Vermonters and all Americans, stands eyeball-to-eyeball with Bush in a high stakes staring contest in which even Republicans are backing away from the President. Gaye Symington, though, busies herself with watching the clock, insisting that the overwhelming weight of Vermont’s legislative agenda precludes an expression of support for Leahy’s brave stand in defense of the Constitution. (More)<\/p>\n

What can WE do?
\nContact Speaker of the VT House Gaye Symington, and tell her she’s failing to fulfill her oath to defend\/protect the Constitution.
\nGaye Symington
\n115 State Street
\nMontpelier, Vermont 05633-530
\n802-828-2231
\nSpeaker@leg.state.vt.us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Green Mountain Daily — As Senator Leahy bravely tightens the noose around the neck of the Bush “administration,” Vermont Democrats have lent him invaluable political backing in signaling their support for the remedy that ultimately gives him his power in his subpoena showdown — impeachment. 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