Al Gets Ready to Gore Bush

According to John Nichols of The Nation, Al Gore is back with a vengeance: He is about to deliver, says Nichols, "what could be not just one of the more significant speeches of his political career but an essential challenge to the embattled presidency of George W. Bush."

Scheduled to deliver this major address Monday in Washington, Gore is anticipated to argue that BushCo has created a "Constitutional crisis" by spying on Americans and abusing their basic liberties without the authorization of Congress or the courts.

Utilizing a well known Rove tactic, the former vice president, who beat Bush by more than 500,000 votes in the 2000 election, will deliver his speech in "a symbolically powerful location: the historic Constitution Hall of the Daughters of the American Revolution."

Better yet, according to Nichols, Gore's speech is expected to fly in the face of the rather uninspired, cautious speeches for which he has often been criticized, and instead go for Bush's jugular, delivering what his aides term as a "'call to arms' in defense of the Bill of Rights and the rule of law in a time of executive excess."

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Gore to Address "Constitutional Crisis"
By John Nichols
The Nation

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Photo credit: In a photograph provided by Vanderbilt University, former Vice President Al Gore speaks on global climate change Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Vanderbilt University, Daniel Dubois)

Al Gores Bush--Transcript of Jan. 16, 2006 Constitutional Crisis Speech:

AL GORE: Constitutional Crisis Speech Transcript