Sunday, July 22, 2007
Feingold Proposes Censuring Bush and Cheney, Reprimand of Gonzales (11:15 am)
Liberal Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold said Sunday he wants Congress to censure President Bush for his management of the Iraq war and his “assault” against the Constitution.
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Feingold, a prominent war critic, said he soon plans to offer two censure resolutions — measures that would amount to a formal condemnation of the Republican president.
The first would seek to reprimand Bush for, as Feingold described it, getting the nation into war without adequate military preparation and for issuing misleading public statements. The resolution also would cite Vice President Dick Cheney and perhaps other administration officials.
The second measure would seek to censure Bush for what the Democrat called a continuous assault against the rule of law through such efforts as the warrantless surveillance program against suspected terrorists, Feingold said. It would also ask for a reprimand of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and maybe others.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Feingold’s proposals showed the nation’s frustration. But Reid said he would not go along with them and said the Senate needs to focus on finishing spending bills on defense and homeland security.
“We have a lot of work to do,” Reid said. “The president already has the mark of the American people — he’s the worst president we ever had. I don’t think we need a censure resolution in the Senate to prove that.”
posted by Brian Zick
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While I agree that the Shrub deserves censure among many other penalties, the real issue is, when are they going to get Shrub and the Shootist out of office.
Gotta do them together, else they will just pardon one another.
Then, once we are shut of them, the real work of governing this great country can begin, but only then.
Are the Dems keeping the Shrub in place, figuring the longer he is there, the better their chances are?
They had best consider the Emergency Powers he has granted himself.
It would be so easy to stage an incident, allowing Shrub to invoke those emergency powers, declare martial law and cancel all elections until he has finished protecting America by making his buds even richer than they dreamed they could be.
And that is all provided that the Shootist doesn’t have a plan of his own to implement a regime of his own.
Both of them show nothing but contempt and naked greed, especially the Shootist.
posted by Farmer on 7-22-07 at 5:30 PM