We'll fix Bush abuses after he 'slinks off the sta

Are you holding your breath?

Very, very dangerous for you health, I say

Some Democrats -- frustrated at banging their heads against a wall much of these last eight years, as they've watched George W. Bush run roughshod over the Constitution and the rule of law -- are determined to return some semblance of order once the president leaves office next year.

It was this desire to dial back the executive power overreach that was Bush's primary governing philosophy that led Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) to call together nearly a dozen experts Tuesday morning for a Judiciary subcommittee hearing on "Restoring the Rule of Law."

Aside from Feingold, Rhode Island's Sheldon Whitehouse was the only Democrat who showed up to question the witnesses arrayed before him in the Capitol Hill hearing room. Republican Sam Brownback, the Subcommittee on the Constitution's ranking member also showed up to quibble with the hearing's implication that Bush had disregarded the law and complain about proposals to close Guantanamo because some have suggested moving the detainees to Fort
Leavenworth, in his home state of Kansas

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