BDS Still Afflicting Feingold
Russ Feingold, who fancies himself a Beltway powerhouse, is pushing a censure measure against President Bush in the Senate.
The five-page resolution to be introduced on Monday contends that Bush violated the law when, on his own, he set up the eavesdropping program within the National Security Agency in the months following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Bush claims that his authority as commander in chief as well as a September 2001 congressional authorization to use force in the fight against terrorism gave him the power to authorize the surveillance. The White House had no immediate response on Sunday.
When will this idiot learn that challenging President Bush on this issue is as productive as chasing parked cars? Does he think that the American people are more worried about civil liberties than they’re thinking that intercepting terrorist communications is a good thing. Does Feingold think that people will care that Democrats say they’re for the program as long as the President obtains a FISA warrant?
As Neal Boortz says, there just isn’t “much outrage in the heartland over eavesdropping on potential Islamic terrorists.”
“Congress has to reassert our system of government, and the cleanest and the most efficient way to do that is to censure the president,” Feingold said. “And, hopefully, he will acknowledge that he did something wrong.”
Fat chance. The reality is that President Bush is on the side of the angels on this issue and knows it.
Cross-post at LetFreedomRing
March 13th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Feingold’s posturing is amazingly similar to Kerry’s, when J(Frenchy)K contended that he actually voted against the war after he voted for the war.
The Congress authorized the bill it did. Now that the Prez is using it as intended, this yoyo wants to back up and say, “we authorized you to do this, but we didn’t think you’d actually DO that!”
What a maroon.
March 13th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
So you and Boortz think the “American Heartland” is made up of people too stupid to know the President is undermining the separation of powers set in the US Constitution?
Or are you saying they are too stupid to know what the Constitution says?
Either way, you don’t think much of the “American heartland”. Although that seems obvious by the way you avoid the real issues on your blog.
I’m just asking. After all, some people* say Bush got > 50% of the vote in the 2004 election.
*those that don’t think the Diebold voting machines are corrupted.
March 13th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
Feingold Seeks to Censure President Bush
If an NSA agent is listening in on Osama Bin Laden himself, and Bin Laden calls a citizen of the United States of America, should that NSA agent hang up the phone?
March 13th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
Robert seems imminently like the person who, when faced with the equation of 2 + 2 = 4, refuses to acknowledge that 2 + 2 = 4.
It seems to me that too many people are in too much of a hurry to damn anything GW does, all in the names of “freedom” and “rights”, but are too blinded by their own hate to see that, if left unchecked, those GW would catch and detain are the very ones who would take any “freedom” and “right” people of this country have left.
In other words, they howl at the puppy and ignore the wolf.
There are plenty of things to bash GW about. Surveillence and “wiretapping” aren’t amoung them.