Posted on 08/06/2007 12:57:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Democrats have introduced resolutions in the House and Senate that would censure President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
Russ Feingold, D-Wis., introduced the censure resolutions in the Senate on Aug. 4; New York Democrat Maurice D. Hinchey introduced them in the House a day later.
One resolution (S Res 302, H Res. 625), would censure Bush and Cheney for “misleading the American people” about the need to invade and occupy Iraq, as well as for poor planning and conduct of the war.
The other measure (S Res 303, H Res. 626) would censure Bush and Gonzales for “undermining the rule of law and the separation of powers” by, among other things, authorizing the National Security Agency to conduct warrantless surveillance of American citizens and making “misleading” statements about the application of the a sweeping 2001 anti-terrorism law (PL 107-56).
“Congress cannot stay silent when the American people are demanding that this administration be held accountable for its blatant misconduct regarding Iraq and its attack on the rule of law,” Feingold said.
Neither the House nor the Senate is expected to take up the resolutions. Despite the clamor from the Democratic political base for the more drastic step of impeaching Bush, Cheney and Gonzales, Democratic congressional leaders have avoided making any moves that voters might see as a political vendetta.
Feingold introduced a resolution last year in a Republican-controlled Senate that would have censured Bush over the NSA surveillance program. Senate Republicans tried to schedule a floor vote on that resolution, but Democrats blocked the move.
The only president ever to be censured was Andrew Jackson in 1834. The Senate voted 26-20 to censure Jackson in his second term after he refused to turn over a document related to his decision to remove federal deposits from the Bank of the United States. Three years later, with its balance of power reversed, the Senate voted to expunge the censure text from the record.
This story originally appeared in CQ Today.
Isn’t congress on recess for a month now?
Blah, blah, blah. Once again the tratiorus Democrat party tries to satisfy its rabid, hateful base.
The Dems are unprincipled cowards. They should impeach them if they really think they did all the stuff they accuse them of.
McCain-Feingold. Says volumes, doesn’t it?
They did these babies on the 4th and 5th, not sure when they slammed the gavel and hit the road.
This is just a taste of things to come,, oh joy.. just a bunch of insolent bastards behind all this crap and it isn’t on the GOP side.
Bring it on, you treasonous bastards. While you’re all at it, introduce articles of impeachment as well, and let the whole country see how you and your ‘comrades’ (no pun intended) continue to put PARTY above country.
No wonder it is the LOWEST RATED Congress of all time! Please keep it up fools. It will make retaking Congress much easier.
McCain sure can pick his friends, eh?
Sheesh, Feingold is even less serious than that idiot Markey in the House.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Feingold is part of the base, no?
Congress is out of session, time for interim appointments.
Is this like the censure of so many Democrats? Gary Studds for instance?
How low do the “D’s” have to go? Equally, how can the truly conservative “R’s” become a Congressional majority?
You beat me to it. When are the bozos in Washington going to wake up and realize there are more important things to do than trying to make political hay. I pray the American public has the guts to vote all of them out of office. (Truthfully...if only Pelosi lost, I'd still be tickled.)
How lame is it that YOUR OWN PARTY won't support your resolution?
When are the rats going to be held accountable for their blatant misconduct?
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