Censure?
Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold has been mentioned as a possible Democrat contender for the presidency in 2008 -- if only for the fact that just about every senator looks in the mirror each morning and sees a future president. If that's the case, Feingold must've been attempting to woo the Bush Derangement Syndrome-suffering base of the Democrat Party when he went on TV yesterday and suggested censuring President Bush over the terrorist surveillance non-scandal.
"The president has broken the law and, in some way, he must be held accountable," Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., told The Associated Press in an interview.
Feingold's premise is, at the very least, debatable -- there are plenty of solid legal arguments that President Bush is well within his powers to collect signals intelligence on enemies of the United States without a court order, even if one-half of the conversation is held within the U.S.
It's often been said of the Palestinians that they never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity when it came to improving their lot in life vis a vis the Israelis -- the Democrat Party may be demonstrating similar aptitude.
Less than a week after Democrats were able to gain ground against the public perception that they are weak on National Security thanks to the Dubai Ports World debacle, Feingold goes on national television and proposed censuring the president for doing something that, no matter how pollsters characterize or phrase it (i.e. "domestic spying"), a solid majority of the American people support. Yet, Feingold, in his infinite wisdom, wants to once again bring to center stage something only helped Bush's poll numbers.
It's the "Animal House" effect on political parties: "I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part." Feingold's not up for re-election until 2010, so his "futile and stupid gesture" won't hurt him, but the Democrats can kiss goodbye any hopes they have of recapturing the House and Senate in 2006 if his fellow lemmings follow him off the cliff.
So, to Russ Feingold I leave him with these immortal words: "Bring it on!"
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What was intresting to me was that Feingold said that the spying was unconstutional, and that the president couldn't just decree otherwise. He then went on to say that if the president thought that "domestic spying" was important, he should have came to congress and gotten laws passed. Really???? Congress should be passing laws that, at least according to Feingold, are unconstutoinal? How does that make the president's subsequent actions legal? The spying was either constutional, or it wasn't, and no amount of congressional action will make it constutional if it wasn't already.