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Feingold Calls for Bush's Censure For Spying |
2006-03-12 |
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. and violator of political free speech. Censor and partisan incumbant protector 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. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., also appearing exclusively on "This Week," defended Bush. "Russ is just wrong, he is flat wrong, he is dead wrong," Frist said. he's an asshole too The most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll put the president's approval rating at 41 percent, nearly a career low. But that not necessarily mean Feingold's censure resolution will succeed. biased poll, biased results, and you can't get him below 41%? Well, where are the MSM in confidence ratings? 15%? 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." Frist called the censure attempt "political" and a "terrible, terrible signal" to enemies of the U.S. abroad. He assured Stephanopoulos that the resolution would never gain traction in the Republican-controlled Senate. Feingold, best known for his bipartisan fight for campaign finance reform with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., intends to introduce the resolution this week — insisting the move is not a Video of Feingold's and Frist's full interviews will be posted at www.thisweek.abcnews.com. |
Posted by:Frank G |
#11 I call for the censure of J-Rock for leaking ... |
Posted by: doc 2006-03-12 22:41 |
#10 Remember Feingold was the other half of the effort to eliminate the right to political free speech. |
Posted by: DMFD 2006-03-12 18:31 |
#9 It is downright funny that democrats have called for the impeachment of every republican president since Gerald Ford. Conyers for Reagan, Henry "Fozzie Bear" Gonzales for Bush I, and now this lot for Bush II. |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-03-12 18:25 |
#8 We've been trying to throw this 'populist' out of office since before he got in. Too many "dead people" registered and voted from the National DNC voter rolls though. It was close in '98 when a schoolteacher/contractor almost got him, but the City of Madison (moonbat central) support for our gay congresswoman (moonbat to the ultimate) carried him with the 'sympathy vote'. |
Posted by: Mullah Richard 2006-03-12 17:27 |
#7 I fart through silk, baby, lol. |
Posted by: Cloth Snatch4013 2006-03-12 17:16 |
#6 I hope the majority of people in Wisconsin grow a pair and throw this idiot out of his job. Between the "camapign finance reform" and all his mouthings since then, he's proven that he has no idea what the Constitution says or means. Now if Arizona can end the political career of the other loser, John McCain, that would be a real reason to celebrate. A dead fish would be preferable to either of these two "Senators". |
Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-03-12 17:02 |
#5 question- isn't a cloth snatch kinda....well...abrasive? |
Posted by: Frank G 2006-03-12 17:00 |
#4 Gen Honore has an apt description for the Feingolds of the world. |
Posted by: Cloth Snatch4013 2006-03-12 16:52 |
#3 well, he's supported by that icon of intellectual and ethical power, John Conyers (D-assholery) |
Posted by: Frank G 2006-03-12 16:51 |
#2 Brain fart in wind |
Posted by: Captain America 2006-03-12 16:49 |
#1 Feingold must have been away on vacation -- he sorta missed that the MSM gave up and moved on to ports. |
Posted by: Darrell 2006-03-12 16:12 |