Russ Feingold to Appear on Fox this Sunday (notice)

[radio4progressives]

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Just wanted to make sure you knew that Russ will be appearing on "Fox News Sunday" this weekend (please check your local listings for times). Hope you can tune in to see Russ!

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[saltpoint]

1. I bet nobody in the Bush administration shows up for an interview

with THE NATION any time soon.

Feingold stands on his own two feet. The Bushies lie, run, and hide

[radio4progressives]

2. Apparently Lindsey Graham will also be appearing, but for Immigration

according to the webpage - but i can't tell if they will be on at the same time, or one after the other..

here's the link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,61653,00.html

[saltpoint]

4. Well I hope someone offers Senator Graham a Valium.

Make that 2 Valiums. He's been a bit hysterical lately.

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Nice to see you again on DU, radio4progressives.

[radio4progressives]

8. Nice to see you too.. where' ya been hiding lately?

:hi:

[saltpoint]

14. Just here and there. 'Am reading a bit and enjoying the

general trend rising against the president's disastrous policies.

Not so sure about the Senate, but am looking forward to a very close turn of fate for the House of Representatives in November. It's still early, but I'm optimistic.

[radio4progressives]

3. Fox News Link :

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,61653,00.html

[flpoljunkie]

5. I would like to point out there's a news blackout on these hearings by MSM

one word on the front page of the online New York Times or the Washington Post about the hearings--which have been over long enough for someone to write it up. Yahoo does have an AP story up, but this story is not on the WaPo AP headlines.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060331/ap_on_re_us/senate_censure;_ylt=AoB7.d.40r7mosLmOGakPJ6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-

John Dean Blasts Warrantless Eavesdropping

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer

Nixon White House counselor John Dean asserted Friday that President Bush's domestic spying exceeds the wrongdoing that toppled his former boss from power, and Sen. Orrin Hatch (news, bio, voting record) snapped that Democrats were trying to "score political points" with a motion to censure Bush.

"Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented," Dean told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it."

Testifying to a Senate committee on Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Russell Feingold's resolution to censure Bush, Dean said the president "needs to be told he cannot simply ignore a law with no consequences."

At issue is whether Bush's secretive domestic spying program violates the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

<>To me, this is not really and should not be a partisan question," Dean told the panel. "I think it's a question of institutional pride of this body, of the Congress of the United States."

Feingold told the panel that censure is not only an appropriate response, but Congress' duty. "If we in the Congress don't stand up for ourselves and the American people, we become complicit in the lawbreaking," Feingold said. "The resolution of censure is the appropriate response."

<>Privately, Democrats in the House and Senate have said that embracing a censure resolution before the facts are known would damage their credibility this election year.

[blm]

6. Typical of the proBush corporate media - attack or ignore any Dem who

stands to oppose the Bushboy.

[flpoljunkie]

7. The Senate hearings ought to have been LIVE on all the cable news channels

This is a huge story! Not one news channel--not CNN, not MSNBC, not FOX covered the hearing.

This is an obvious attempt by the main stream media to bury this. Would they fail to show a Senate Judiciary hearing to debate censuring a Democratic president? I think not!

[radio4progressives]

10. Who Owns the CM? The Repukes Own the CM.

That's why! I imagine they're waiting for the "heavy hitters" to spin it and twist and distort it into various shapes and angles for Wolfy and Tweety. The Dems will trot out the most mealy mouthed among them, Donna Brazile et al.

[blm]

11. If it were a Dem president the BIG3 networks would've pre-empted the soaps

to carry it in full.

[radio4progressives]

13. you got it.. i think that's what they did with Clinton, if memory serves..

:shrug:

[radio4progressives]

9. These Excerpts are good ones: here's a quote that DU needs to deal with

Privately, Democrats in the House and Senate have said that embracing a censure resolution before the facts are known would damage their credibility this election year.

It's incredible for anyone with a half a brain could make such a statement with a straight face, and expect it to be believed and NOT be damaged by refusing to embrace the Censure, particularly in this election year.

The way our campaign process works these days, every goddam year is an election year. The party has been campaigning for 2008 presidential elections the day after the 2004 presidential elections, or just about.

Here's one of my preferences:

[radio4progressives]

12. Just came across this article at tompaine.com

The GOP's Stake In Checking The President
Senator Russ Feingold
March 30, 2006

During the Watergate hearings, then-Senator Howard Baker, a Republican, showed tremendous courage, and a deep sense of Congress’s duty to hold President Nixon accountable, when he asked that now-famous question: “What did the President know and when did he know it?” Baker was one of a handful of Republicans during the scandal who stood up to their party, and to the President. Today, as the President admits, even flaunts, his program to wiretap Americans on American soil without the warrants required by law, we need more courageous Republicans to stand up and check the President’s power grab.

(snip)

A party that prides itself on limiting government, and supporting individual freedom and the rule of law, should think twice before it allows any President to ignore the laws that Congress passes. By supporting the President now, Republicans are making it tougher for members of their own party to challenge the power of future presidents and departing from their own values in the process. That’s a short-sighted strategy that won’t serve either party, or the nation, in the long run. What would serve the nation, and support the rule of law, is for a few courageous Republicans to follow the example set during the Watergate scandal by standing up to a President of their own party, asking tough questions, and holding the President accountable for his abuse of power.



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http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/30/the_gops_stake_in_checking_the_president.php