Yes, folks, from half of the moron tag team that brought us McCain-Feingold, Russ is talking censure. Expect Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer, Hillary "Xenophobic Princess (but still takes their money)"Clinton, Dick WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A prominent Democratic senator said he plans to introduce Monday a resolution calling for President Bush to be censured for his domestic wiretapping program.
Sen. Russ Feingold, a potential presidential candidate, told CNN's "American Morning" the surveillance program is illegal and he will fight against the "intimidation campaign" that the Bush administration has launched to defend it.
Feingold, a member of the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence committees, said a censure would "send a clear signal" that Bush's actions were "wrong."
The administration, which insists the program is legal, defended what it said is a key way of tracking terrorists and preventing attacks in the United States.
"This is a critical program for national security," the White House said Monday.
"This program is about detecting and preventing attacks, and this is the president's responsibility. If al Qaeda is calling into or out of the United States, you bet we're going to want to know about it."
On Sunday, Feingold told ABC's "This Week" the resolution would not preempt discussions about changing the 1978 law governing a special court set up to approve wiretaps.
"It's an unusual step," he said. "It's a big step, but what the president did by consciously and intentionally violating the Constitution and laws of this country with this illegal wiretapping has to be answered."
The Wisconsin Democrat's move is expected to be largely symbolic. No Republicans are expected to support the resolution.
Where was Feingold during the "Echelon" program? Is Feingold one of the Senators who keep getting the Clintons' crimes redacted from the Bennett Report? Shouldn't Feingold be censured for putting forth an idiotic law like McCain-Feingold, which works against common folk getting support out but supports the moronic 527s and gives more weight to lib limosuine liberals like George Soros and the like? I think the ineptitude of that law being crafted deserves censure.
When is Feingold going to demand that we investigate Hillary using a detective known as the Pelican to investigate Bill's political enemies? When is Feingold going to demand that the Clintons pay for the use of tax returns against political enemies?
And another thing. Democrats get their cute little kudos from idiots like the gang over at the Today Show, you know the show that was afraid of their liberal guest getting b***hslapped around intellectually by a high school kid (the Bennish story), for these so-called symbolic steps, but Republicans who protest over the unconstitutional fillibustering of judicial nominees get labelled as slowing down the work of the federal government. Why is that? Why do democrats get a pass for slowing our government to an even more turtleific pace than it normally works?
And yet another thing. This article erroneously reports:
Bush authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans suspected of communicating with al Qaeda members overseas -- without obtaining a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court.
Um, sorry Turnerites, the truth is different. The taps were ordered on people who WERE KNOWN TO HAVE RECEIVED CALLS FROM KNOWN TERRORISTS OR PEOPLE WITH KNOWN TIES TO TERRORISTS. Quit trying to paint this and just report the facts. Take a cue from Rumsfeld, who refuses to call you guys out for being against this country, against our security, and blatantly pro-terror, when he says he is just reporting on the puffing up of problems faced by the coalition by the American media.
