CLINTON AND GORE, TOGETHER AGAIN. Al Gore and Hillary Clinton showed some spine yesterday in standing up to Republican abuses of power. Gore invoked memories of FBI wiretaps of Martin Luther King in arguing that President Bush's warrantless surveillance practices comprise a “dangerous overreach” of executive power. Clinton told an audience at Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church of Christ that "when you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation - and you know what I am talking about. It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary point of view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument." As regrettable (and headline-grabbing) as Hillary's hyperbole might be, she does have a point.

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