Aldpol in the diaries section of the Daily Kos is still looking for other Democratic Senators to sign on with Feingold and his call to censure President Bush. He writes: Tue Mar 14, 2006 at 08:48:43 AM PDT
“This is a Tuesday open thread for discussion of calls to Senators on censure. It's only been 18 hours since Senator Feingold stood on the Senate floor and called for the censure of the President. And now, with the exception of yesterday morning's diary by Russ himself, which is gallantly hanging on on the Recommended list, the issue has already virtually disappeared from DailyKos. (More in the extended section)
Contact info for your Senator is here: CONTACT YOUR SENATOR. Call, fax, email, call, fax, email -- every day until they understand that the consequences of standing down are worse than the consequences of standing up. Tell the Dems that their cowardice will cost them something; tell the Repubs that not everyone in their red states is OK with their abandonment of the Constitution.
In the face of the Bush Administration's admittedly illegal, and undeniably unconstitutional, domestic spying program, only one Senator (thank you, John Kerry) has had the political courage (or the political good sense) to support Senator Feingold in calling Bush out. All of "our" other Democratic Senators are, at best, hiding under their desks (where are you, Senator Reid?) or, at worst, running into the arms of the Republicans (no need to name names, but Lieberman Lieberman Lieberman).”
Aldpol like Feingold is wrong about this on so many levels the least of which, NO CRIME has been committed by President Bush in this matter as Confederate Yankee so succinctly details in his analysis of Feingold’s resolution:
“Feingold is correct only in that FISA does make it illegal to "wiretap Americans in the United States without a warrant or a court order." But the NSA surveillance of these suspected terrorist communications only intercepted communications, outside of the United States. Former NSA director General Michael V. Hayden implemented the surveillance program and states…”
Furthermore as Confederate Yankee reminds us later:
“Two Attorney's General, White House counsel, the top legal minds of the National Security Administration, and top Justice Department lawyers have maintained, and existing case law such as the FISA Court of Review's decision in In re: Sealed Case, Hamdi vs. Rumsfeld, and other evidence in this 42-page Dept. of Justice brief (PDF) strongly asserts that warrants are not required for this kind of international surveillance. FISA simply does not apply.”
I guess the comment left by Mass Southpaw this morning sums it up best:
“Ted Kennedy Undecided… Are we living in a parallel universe here or something?”
Well Mass Southpaw, yes you are living in a parallel universe, anybody with the belief structure that indicates that the President is a more worthy target than Islamic Terrorism is definitely living a parallel universe in my book. The problem is you haven’t figured that out yet, you are still convinced that your loving liberal Democratic Senators are being black mailed or are afraid of Rove that they won’t step forward and take up this obviously important issue.
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