A purpose for this thread --- censure (not Kerry related)

[ProSense]

Fallout

Feingold Censure Move May Give Bush a Boost on Security Debate

March 15 (Bloomberg) -- A Democratic senator's attempt to censure President George W. Bush over his eavesdropping authorization is getting a warm welcome from unlikely sources: the Bush White House and the Republican Party.

After weeks of bad news on Iraq, defeat on the Dubai ports deal and plummeting approval ratings, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans seized on Senator Russell Feingold's resolution chastising the president for ordering government monitoring without warrants of calls and e-mails between people in the U.S. and terrorism suspects overseas.

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Democrats, who had been gaining ground in polls testing perceptions of which party would deal with terrorism better, backed away from the resolution, prompting Feingold to complain that his party was ``cowering'' before the president.

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Senator Mark Dayton, a Minnesota Democrat, was more direct. The resolution, he said yesterday, is ``premature, and over- reaching, which often involves losing more than gaining.''

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aOJLaCfJtuns

Dayton is leaving isn't he?

[wisteria]

1. I'm not sure, but his points are well taken.

I really hope this blows over. This may be premature, but I would hate to see the party lose ground and jeopardize our election chances just so that Senator Feingold got impatient. (I am being kind here)

[sandnsea]

2. It should have been a catalyst

so that Republicans couldn't avoid a full investigation of this spy program. By attacking Democrats, Feingold is turning this into a political football which means the legitimacy of the issue will always be questioned. Just like the WMD lies and vote on the war. I really thought he was smarter than to try to run as the next Howard Dean, I guess not. Too bad because I really liked him.