I Used To Love Him, But It’s All Over Now

As I’ve mentioned previously, I was a big fan of Russ Feingold’s—-not because of his politics, but because I thought he was one of the few politicians of either party who not only HAD principles (besides winning at all cost) but stood by and was guided by them.

No more.

I don’t usually watch the Sunday morning news shows, but when I saw Feingold was going to be on Meet The Press, I had to watch.

I could hardly believe my eyes/ears—-Feingold said he was going to introduce a bill to censure George Bush. Jeez! The fact is that there is no basis in Constitutional Law or Rules of the House and Senate for censuring a POTUS. In fact, the last time a POTUS was censured was in 1834 and three years later it was ‘expunged”.

Congress has the power to show disapproval for the Executive Branch in two ways: by exercising legislative power (veto) and impeachment.

On MTP, Feingold blathered on about Bush’s “repeated assault on the rule of law” and how Bush was “responsible for some of the worst abuses of the law in American history”. Really? History must have started in 2001 for Feingold, because otherwise that statement is just unhinged partisan hyperbole. Needless to say, our very own special Senator Dick Durbin supports this piece of political theatre.

Feingold claims Bush has committed impeachable offenses but refuses to take action allowed by the Constitution. Feingold calls censure a “moderate course”. I call it more political bullsh*t.

Russ, put up or shut up. I can’t believe I actually thought Feingold was an honest liberal instead of just another partisan hack.

No wonder the approval ratings for Congress are at 14%—even lower than Bush’s or even the press.

Yeah Russ, you represent the “will of the American people”—-at least 14% of ‘em.

What a disappointment!