Russ Feingold to introduce legislation to censure the President

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) said he will introduce legislation to censure the President over the "domestic" spying program.


"The president has broken the law and, in some way, he must be held accountable."

Don't know what a censure is? Well that wouldn't surprise me since it's only been done once in US history! (against Andrew Jackson in 1834). Basically all a censure does is to scold the President (tsk tsk you bad bad man). May I ask, what's the point of this? I thought this type of thing was done away with after 5th grade. Is it really in the best interests of our taxpayer dollars to be pushing legislation giving the President a slap on the wrist? So, there must be something else going on here. Well, what could it be....hmmm.

I got it! Could Feingold be prepping himself for a White House run?! Yes, that's it! It's just ridiculous what some of these people *cough* Clinton *cough cough* are doing in preperation for 2008. Shouldn't they be focusing on making our country a better place to live instead of proposing meaningless legislation on a fight that's already been fought?

"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. The president's actions were "in the strike zone" in terms of being an impeachable offense, Feingold said, but he questioned whether impeaching Bush and removing him from office would be good for the country.

Oh, well, that's comforting to hear.

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