Anyway, check out the brass balls on Russ Feingold:
In an exclusive interview on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold called on the Senate to publicly admonish President Bush for approving domestic wiretaps on American citizens without first seeking a legally required court order.
"This conduct is right in the strike zone of the concept of high crimes and misdemeanors," said Feingold, D-Wis., a three-term senator and potential presidential contender.
He said President Bush had, "openly and almost thumbing his nose at the American people," continued the NSA domestic wiretap program.
"High crimes and misdemeanors"? Why, that sounds downright impeachable. The Senate calling for censure of a president has only happned once before against Andrew Jackson. Bill Frist stepped up to defend Bush in a most predictable way, besides saying Russ was "wrong, flat wrong, and dead wrong" he said something else about Russ' remarks. Can you guess what it was? If you said:
... a "terrible, terrible signal" to enemies of the U.S. abroad.
You WIN!
Christ on toast, how many times will they trot that bullshit out? Russ smacks him aside like the fuckwit he is:
"We, as a Congress, have to stand up to a president who acts like the Bill of Rights and the Constitution were repealed on Sept 11, [2001]."
How long do you think it will take for other Dems to go running in the other direction? *sigh*
You can see the video of Russ at C&L and read the entire transcript here.
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