Reply #10: AHH HE STODD ALONE TRYING TO GET A RESOLUTION FOR CENSURE OF BUSH

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AND GOT HIS NUTS CUT OFF *BY PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU..SO NOW WE HAVE DEMS (?) LIKE YOU , TRYING TO CUT HIS NUTS OFF..SAME SHIT JUST ANOTHER DAY!!

wtf did Obama ever do?? oh yeah he did a speech that wasn't recorded and he recreated THE SPEECH in a sound studio..and oh yeah, he said Bush did nothing impeachable..THEN HAD IT ERASED FROM HIS WEB SITE!!


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/13/opinion/lynch...

Will Russ Feingold Stand Alone Again?
Lynch: Senator Takes Heat For Resolution To Censure Bush

March 13, 2006 | by Bootie Cosgrove-Mather


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Russ Feingold is used to being alone. ** He is the one in the 99 to 1 vote in the Senate against the Patriot Act in 2001 and the lone Democrat to vote against dismissing impeachment charges against President Clinton in 1999.

On Monday Feingold introduced a resolution to censure President Bush for his “actions in authorizing the illegal wiretapping program and then misleading the country about the existence and legality of the program.” He says the resolution is “an appropriate and responsible step for Congress to take in response to the president’s undermining of the separation of powers and ignoring the rule of law.”

There was an immediate outcry from Republicans. The Republican National Committee called it “Feingold’s Folly” and accused the Democrats of “playing politics with the most important issue facing the American people” and sending “the wrong message to our enemies ....”

On Monday Vice President Cheney encouraged boos for Feingold at a fundraiser in Feingold’s home state of Wisconsin and dared other Democrats to support the resolution.

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EMPTYWHEEL HAS A GREAT ESSAY ON THIS..I WOULD SUGGEST YOU READ IT,.BUT I KNOW YOU WON'T BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN SPAMMING DU SMEARING RUSS FIENGOLD FOR DAYS NOW!!

FOR OTHERS... WHO DO GIVE A DAMN ABOUT RULE OF LAW..AND OUR CONSTITUTION..I WILL POST IT HERE..


Feingold’s Opposition to Indefinite Detention
By: emptywheel Sunday May 24, 2009 2:22 pm 6


Man, I love Russ Feingold. Here's the letter he sent Obama to lay out his opposition to the notion of indefinite detention. (h/t dday)

He perfectly explains why indefinite would be a dangerous precedent.

He leaves out just one thing here--the possibility that our own government will start rounding up Americans as terrorists and indefinitely detaining them. If animal rights activists can face prison for exercising their free speech under the Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act, after all, then it's not a stretch to envison PETA members indefinitely detained.

Feingold also issues a clever warning when discussing his opposition to Obama's suggested use of military commissions to try detainees:

Like you, I voted against the Military Commissions Act of 2006. I agree with you with regard to that statute's many flaws, but it is not clear to me that those flaws can be fixed, or that the other options in the current federal criminal justice and courts martial systems for bringing the detainees to justice are insufficient or unworkable. If Congress is to fully consider your proposal for military commissions, therefore, it will need access to the same information your administration is currently reviewing, including detailed, classified information on individual detainees and the extent to which other options are available.

SNIP:
I suggested yesterday that Obama's consideration of indefinite detention (and I'd say the same about military commissions) is an attempt to bury evidence of our own crimes. I'm guessing maybe Feingold agrees. He seems to be suggesting that Congress can only legislate new military commissions if the Administration shares the evidence--all the evidence--with all of Congress.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/feingolds-opposition-to-indefinite-detention/#more-4201

thank you Marcy Wheeler.