Telling it like it is

Sen. Leahy:

'Why don't we just recess for the rest of the year, pass a resolution which a Republican-controlled Congress could easily pass, and just simply say: We'll have no more hearings and Vice President Cheney will just tell the nation what laws we'll have; he'll let us know what laws will be followed and which laws will not be followed,' Mr. Leahy said sarcastically. 'Now, of course, it would destroy even the last vestiges, the few remaining vestiges of a real check-and-balance democracy, but that's basically what we're saying.'