Huh? Feingold's the Careless, Reckless One?

[kentuck]

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0319-24.htm

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In Washington, crazy is normal, and normal is crazy.

President Bush and his people adopt a lunatic theory about preventive war, conjure out of Saddam Hussein's non-existent nuclear arsenal a paranoid vision of an imminent mushroom cloud over an American city, start a real war with make-believe planning (and disastrous consequences), keep giving the war rosy prognoses unhinged from the grim reality and suffer delusions of monarchism in which King George has inalienable rights to torture prisoners and wiretap citizens without court oversight, despite laws to the contrary.

A lone lawmaker has put forth a modest proposal to counter this last excess. Sen. Russ Feingold, the Wisconsin Democrat, has asked his colleagues to censure Bush - that is, to pass a resolution rebuking him for illegally spying on Americans.

Now, guess who's drawn the verbal brickbats, such as "out of line," "overreaching," "irresponsible," "outrageous," "crazy." Amazingly, Feingold has.

Were the administration a car, it would be careening through city streets at high speed, getting into crashes, often fatal, as it went. But the authorities would treat this crazy driving as normal and the sane lawman who wants to issue the motorist a ticket as crazy.

[Tom Joad]

1. The Careless and Reckless of the Dem Party are those who stood with

GW Bush in the resolution against Iraq leading to the carnage we see today.
They will go down in history as supporting this brutal and illegal war of aggression. A future tribunal should investigate their actions after dealing with bush/cheney.

[cornermouse]

2. What upsets me most is the reaction of the other democratic senators.

It makes me feel that they think the progressive wing of the party will have no other option to vote for them. To some extent, they're right. I don't agree with a lot of the independent parties agendas either; some of them are pretty far out somewhere in the ozone. On the other hand, that doesn't automatically translate into a vote for the democrats either if they keep trying to imitate the republicans. I didn't leave the real republican party during the Reagan era only to start voting for an imitation republican party in the year 2006.

[Rex]

3. Censuring Bush is symbolic, I can't believe what I'm seeing!

Wow, we are in SO much trouble in this country! I'm fucking scared. :scared: