This series of headlines caught my interest.
Move to censure Bush will have political fallout
MSNBC - 22 hours ago
By Tom Curry. WASHINGTON – A short, but sharp partisan skirmish broke out on the Senate floor Monday when Majority Leader Bill Frist tried to schedule a vote for Monday night or Tuesday on Wisconsin Democrat Sen. …
Democrats Beat Quick Retreat on Call to Censure President New York Times
Feingold Draws Little Support for Censure ABC News
US Senator puts forward motion to censure Bush CBC News, Canada
So what is all this talk of censure about? Oh yeah, I know, Bush lied and he is spying on American illegally.
Senator Russell Feingold, a Democrat from Wisconsin, accused Bush on Monday of breaking the law and misleading the American public.
“A formal censure by Congress is an appropriate and responsible first step to assure the public that when the president thinks he can violate the law without consequences, Congress has the will to hold him accountable,” Feingold said on the floor of the Senate.
The resolution calls on the Senate to condemn Bush’s “unlawful authorization of wiretaps of Americans within the United States without obtaining the court orders required.”
Symbolic move
The move is considered largely symbolic since the Senate is controlled by the Republicans and the motion has no chance of passing.
CBC News – CBC News: U.S. Senator puts forward motion to censure Bush
I have only one question. I hear all this condemnation of the wiretaps, why has no one taken actions to make them go away? I mean the President has said that the wiretaps are legal because of POWERS GRANTED HIM THROUGH CONGRESS. Congress giveth Congress taketh away right?. Oh silly me, if they took that step then they (Feingold and company) would not have anything to bitch about and this is an election year. They would no longer have anything more to leak to the New York Times and the Moonbat Looney Left would not feel good because someone stood up to the BUSH CARTEL.
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1 Comment
March 14, 2006 at 9:32 pm
This “censure” talk is nothing more than a political maneuver on the part of the Dems. They know it won’t pass, but it’ll get them some good soundbites to use for “election season”…