Fighting the president from your own party

My previous post mentions the fight the organics community had with the Clinton Administration over the rules that govern the federal organic label and it got me thinking about that fight. It was a huge fight that had my old boss, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) in a big battle with the president from his own party.

I worked on that issue for Peter and had the attorneys at the Ag Dept. yelling at me all the time and Peter took a lot of heat from the administration as well. The Ag Dept. wanted to have complete say over what would happen to the label in the future and Peter fought them on giving them that power. He could of looked the other way and listened to the Clinton team when they said, trust on this one, we are on your side. He knew that even if the Clinton team was with us 100% on the organic label now (they weren't) it didn't matter because Clinton wasn't going to be president forever.

And that fight was only about specialized food.

Somehow the Republicans can't muster up the courage to even question the president from their own party on something as important as the fourth amendment to the constitution. They won't even investigate whether or not the president's wiretapping program is following the law. When President Bush says trust me, they just say ok and look the other way.

There is one thing we can trust, history books will out this Congress for the cowards that they are.