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Watch Feingold in 2008..
He is the best candidate the Dems have.
Sarah
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
AP via Truthout - Mar 14, 2006
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031506Z.shtml
Feingold Assails Dems on Bush Censure
by The Associated Press
Washington - Wisconsin Sen. Russell Feingold accused fellow
Democrats on Tuesday of cowering rather than joining him on trying
to censure President Bush over domestic spying.
"Democrats run and hide" when the administration invokes the
war on terrorism, Feingold told reporters.
Feingold introduced censure legislation Monday in the Senate
but not a single Democrat has embraced it. Several have said they
want to see the results of a Senate Intelligence Committee
investigation before supporting any punitive legislation.
Republicans dismissed the proposal Tuesday as being more about
Feingold's 2008 presidential aspirations than Bush's actions. On
and off the Senate floor, they have dared Democrats to vote for the
resolution.
"I'm amazed at Democrats ... cowering with this president's
numbers so low," Feingold said.
The latest AP-Ipsos poll on Bush, conducted last week, found
just 37 percent of the 1,000 people surveyed approving his overall
performance, the lowest of his presidency.
Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., tried to hold a vote
Monday on Feingold's resolution but was blocked by Democrats. He
said Tuesday that Feingold should withdraw the resolution because
it has no support.
"If the Democrats continue to say no to voting on their own
censure resolution, then they ought to drop it and focus on our
foreign policy in a positive way," Frist said in a statement.
Feingold's resolution condemns Bush's "unlawful authorization
of wiretaps of Americans within the United States without obtaining
the court orders required" by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act.
The only president ever censured by the Senate was Andrew
Jackson, in 1834, for removing the nation's money from a private
bank in defiance of the Whig-controlled Senate.
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