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Senator Proposes Censure for President

From the AP:

WASHINGTON - A liberal Democrat and potential White House contender is proposing censuring President Bush for authorizing domestic eavesdropping, saying the White House misled Americans about its legality.

"The president has broken the law and, in some way, he must be held accountable," Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., told The Associated Press in an interview.

A censure resolution, which simply would scold the president, has been used just once in U.S. history — against Andrew Jackson in 1834.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., called the proposal "a crazy political move" that would weaken the U.S. during wartime.

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OK, the leader of the Senate who is also a member of the president's own party, who has his own troubles (investigation of possible insider trading) and wants someday to be president himself calls the idea of a censure of a president who has admitted to the wrongdoing (except it isn't wrong because he says it isn't wrong) "crazy". Oh yeah, this same leader of the Senate, who is a heart surgeon, is the same person who diagnosed a woman in a persistent vegetative state and said diagnosis turned out to be totally wrong. And he expects the American people to listen to him?