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Sunday, March 12, 2006

Memo to DNC: Nominate this man in 2008 , or I don't vote. Period.
Posted by Jill | 4:49 PM

While Hillary is canoodling with Joe Lieberman about video games, Russ Feingold is doing something to try to make this Administration accountable:

In an exclusive interview on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold called on the Senate to publicly admonish President Bush for approving domestic wiretaps on American citizens without first seeking a legally required court order.

"This conduct is right in the strike zone of the concept of high crimes and misdemeanors," said Feingold, D-Wis., a three-term senator and potential presidential contender.

He said President Bush had, "openly and almost thumbing his nose at the American people," continued the NSA domestic wiretap program.

President Bush has long asserted that the so-called 'warrantless wiretaps' are an essential tool in the war on terror.

But in a copy of the censure resolution obtained by ABC News, Feingold asserts the president, "repeatedly misled the public prior to the public disclosure of the National Security Agency surveillance program by indicating his administration was relying on court orders to wiretap suspected terrorists inside the United States."

Feingold cites three instances over a year-long period in which Bush outlined the necessity of a court order or a judge's permission prior to a domestic wiretap of a U.S. citizen.

[snip]

Censure, essentially a public disapproval by the Senate as a whole, has only been applied to one president, Andrew Jackson, in a politically-charged move the Senate historian's office describes as "unprecedented and never-repeated tactic."


Bill "Insider Trading Cat Killer" Frist, is predictably, playing the "traitor" card, demanding that Russ Feingold assume the proper prostrate position before the Almighty Fearless Leader, Captain Codpiece:

Frist called the censure attempt "political" and a "terrible, terrible signal" to enemies of the U.S. abroad.


Yes indeedy, holding leaders accountable sends a terrible message to enemies of the United States -- like "we practice what we preach." Mustn't have that now. God, Frist is a joke.
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