Russ Feingold resurrects call to censure the President

He wanted to do it back in March of 2006, and now wants to try again:

WASHINGTON – Liberal Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold said Sunday he wants Congress to censure President Bush for his management of the Iraq war and his “assault” against the Constitution.

But Feingold’s own party leader in the Senate showed little interest in the idea. An attempt in 2006 by Feingold to censure Bush over the warrantless spying program attracted only three co-sponsors.

Feingold, a prominent war critic, said he soon plans to offer two censure resolutions — measures that would amount to a formal condemnation of the Republican president.

The first would seek to reprimand Bush for, as Feingold described it, getting the nation into war without adequate military preparation and for issuing misleading public statements. The resolution also would cite Vice President Dick Cheney and perhaps other administration officials.

The second measure would seek to censure Bush for what the Democrat called a continuous assault against the rule of law through such efforts as the warrantless surveillance program against suspected terrorists, Feingold said. It would also ask for a reprimand of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and maybe others.

“This is an opportunity for people to say, let’s at least reflect on the record that something terrible has happened here,” said Feingold, D-Wis. “This administration has weakened America in a way that is frightful.”

Feingold’s press release is here.

The people who have weakened America “in a way that is frightful” are Bush-hating Democrats like Russ Feingold and other clueless wonders in Congress who continue to treat the President as the enemy in the war on terror, rather than Al Qaeda, by using threats for impeachment or censure, along with issuing symbolic ‘votes’ against the President’s policies – votes which hold no weight other than appeasing their moonbat base – in an attempt to weaken the President’s ability to prosecute the war on terror with the tools he has at his disposal as Commander in Chief to do so. Why are they doing this? Not because they care about the ‘rights’ of Americans, but because they want to get re-elected, and they know the surest way to make this happen is to distort what the President has done the last 7 years not as measures used to try and protect this country from another terrorist attack, but instead as a way of becoming a dictator who wants to steal all your rights under the banner of ‘protecting’ you.

It’s pathetic, and shameful and any Democrat supporter who is on board with this line of thinking is just as pathetic and just as shameful for aiding and encouraging this type of demagoguery from their representatives. These types of Democrats love to use the quote “dissent is the highest form of patriotism” (which is NOT a quote from Thomas Jefferson, BTW)- maybe so, but dissent being patriotic is one thing … stupidity, however, is not patriotic.

Hat tip: Captain Ed