First President in ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY TWO YEARS to face rebuke...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060324/pl_nm/security_eavesdropping_dc

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee announced on Friday it would hold a hearing next week on a call by a Democratic lawmaker to censure President George W. Bush for his domestic spy program. In a one-sentence notice, the panel said the hearing would be held next Friday by the order of its chairman, Republican Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record) of Pennsylvania, who has opposed censure.

Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold (news, bio, voting record) of Wisconsin introduced a resolution last week calling for a Senate censure of the president, charging that Bush's warrantless domestic surveillance program was illegal. Revelation of the once-secret program has triggered a political uproar. Feingold, who has attracted little support from fellow Democrats for censure, said unless a hearing was held he would push for a vote by the full Senate on his resolution.

The White House and many Republicans in Congress have denounced Feingold's censure resolution as a political stunt. "Some Democrats in Congress have decided the president is the enemy and the terrorist surveillance program is grounds for censuring the president," Vice President Dick Cheney told a Republican fund-raiser in Orlando, Florida, on Friday, adding, "The American people have already made their decision. They agree with the president."

The Senate has censured a president, which amounts to a formal rebuke, only once before and that was Andrew Jackson in 1834 in a banking dispute.

[WhiteTara]

1. time to call and hammer all our

senators (both sides of the aisle) and make OUR wishes known. They may not do as they are told, but we can sure give them hell in the meantime.

find yours here:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

[DavidDvorkin]

2. But we know it's not going to happen

The hearings will be a brief formality, and nothing will come of them. So let's not get excited.