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Mar. 13th, 2006
It's kind of a baby step, but at least it's in the right direction:
Russ Feingold put himself on the line for progressives and the nation yesterday -- by announcing on This Week that he was going to introduce a Motion for Censure against President Bush for breaking the FISA laws.
Let's take a little time this morning, please, and phone your Senators. Let them know you were impressed by Russ Feingold -- and ask them to tell you what their position is on the censure proposal.
That's it -- just ask whether your Senators support the censure proposal, and then report back here when you get an answer. Use this thread to let us know. Jane and I will keep track of the responses, so we'll all have some idea of where everyone stands on this issue.
I'm asking everyone who reads this to please contact your senators today, I just did as neither Boxer nor Feinstein has taken a position on this yet. There is simply no reason for it, and I made it clear that I expected nothing less than full support to be announced publically soon.
Russ Feingold put himself on the line for progressives and the nation yesterday -- by announcing on This Week that he was going to introduce a Motion for Censure against President Bush for breaking the FISA laws.
Let's take a little time this morning, please, and phone your Senators. Let them know you were impressed by Russ Feingold -- and ask them to tell you what their position is on the censure proposal.
That's it -- just ask whether your Senators support the censure proposal, and then report back here when you get an answer. Use this thread to let us know. Jane and I will keep track of the responses, so we'll all have some idea of where everyone stands on this issue.
I'm asking everyone who reads this to please contact your senators today, I just did as neither Boxer nor Feinstein has taken a position on this yet. There is simply no reason for it, and I made it clear that I expected nothing less than full support to be announced publically soon.
Glenn is on fire
Mar. 13th, 2006 03:27 pmOnce again Glenn Greenwald sums it up:
Of all the dishonest and corrupt steps taken by this Administration, the worst, in my view, is that they have flamboyantly masqueraded as defenders of America while they have simultaneously sought to dismantle every political attribute and core principle that has defined who we are as a country for the last 225 years. Bush followers will undoubtedly seek to depict Feingold's effort as quixotic, radical, and even treasonous. And it faces obvious uphill battles, beginning with the frightened posture of Feingold's Democratic colleagues.
But sometimes, the act of a single person of this nature can change things dramatically. Just as Bush followers thought that they had swept this scandal under the rug and covered it up by ensuring that there would be no investigation, Sen. Feingold goes on national television and urges that the President be censured for breaking the law. And he's on the Judiciary Committee as well, and this should make it that much more difficult for Specter to simply shut down the hearings without following through on his promise to find out if there are other warrantless eavesdropping programs besides the one we know about.
Taking a strong and principled stand in defense of the rule of law and our country's principles is what we have been urging Democrats to do from the very beginning of this scandal, and it's what Sen. Feingold just did. I think the blogosphere as a whole ought to find the most effective ways for harnessing whatever influence and power we can muster in order to pressure as many Democrats as possible to support this resolution and to make it as clear as possible to the country why it is so warranted and urgently needed.
If you missed it earlier I point you to my post on the Feingold call to censure Bush, and what you can do about it. Please, please, please take a moment and find out where your senators stand on this issue, encourage them to support Russ and hold Bush accountable in some small way to the rule of law.
Of all the dishonest and corrupt steps taken by this Administration, the worst, in my view, is that they have flamboyantly masqueraded as defenders of America while they have simultaneously sought to dismantle every political attribute and core principle that has defined who we are as a country for the last 225 years. Bush followers will undoubtedly seek to depict Feingold's effort as quixotic, radical, and even treasonous. And it faces obvious uphill battles, beginning with the frightened posture of Feingold's Democratic colleagues.
But sometimes, the act of a single person of this nature can change things dramatically. Just as Bush followers thought that they had swept this scandal under the rug and covered it up by ensuring that there would be no investigation, Sen. Feingold goes on national television and urges that the President be censured for breaking the law. And he's on the Judiciary Committee as well, and this should make it that much more difficult for Specter to simply shut down the hearings without following through on his promise to find out if there are other warrantless eavesdropping programs besides the one we know about.
Taking a strong and principled stand in defense of the rule of law and our country's principles is what we have been urging Democrats to do from the very beginning of this scandal, and it's what Sen. Feingold just did. I think the blogosphere as a whole ought to find the most effective ways for harnessing whatever influence and power we can muster in order to pressure as many Democrats as possible to support this resolution and to make it as clear as possible to the country why it is so warranted and urgently needed.
If you missed it earlier I point you to my post on the Feingold call to censure Bush, and what you can do about it. Please, please, please take a moment and find out where your senators stand on this issue, encourage them to support Russ and hold Bush accountable in some small way to the rule of law.