Where are the Democrats?

In a follow-up piece to its article over the weekend about how Bush is deliberately violating over 750 laws Congress has passed during his tenure, the Boston Globe notes that three Democratic senators have complained about this:

WASHINGTON -- Three leading Democratic senators blasted President Bush yesterday for having claimed he has the authority to defy more than 750 statutes enacted since he took office, saying that the president's legal theories are wrong and that he must obey the law.

''We're a government of laws, not men," Senate minority leader Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, said in a statement. ''It is not for George W. Bush to disregard the Constitution and decide that he is above the law."

Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, accused Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney of attempting to concentrate ever more government power in their own hands.

''The Bush-Cheney administration has cultivated an insidious brand of unilateralism that regularly crosses into an arrogance of power," Leahy said in a statement. ''The scope of the administration's assertions of power is stunning, and it is chilling."

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, also said that the Bush administration, abetted by ''a compliant Republican Congress," was undermining the checks and balances that ''guard against abuses of power by any single branch of government."

The opposition lawmakers were reacting to a report in Sunday's Boston Globe detailing the scope of Bush's assertions that he can ignore laws that conflict with his interpretation of the Constitution.

I'm sorry, but the fact that three Democrats have complained is not what's newsworthy about this. What's newsworthy about this is the disgusting fact that only three Democratic senators have complained. Why are they not unanimously screaming about this? Our country is being stolen, and the idiots inside the beltway sit on their hands, cashing their paychecks, raking in their bribes, and playing golf in Scotland with their favorite lobbyists.