(2006-03-13) — Sen. Russ Feingold today introduced a measure in the Senate to censure President George Bush for his conduct surrounding what the Wisconsin Democrat calls an “illegal” eavesdropping program run by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Sen. Feingold’s bill calls for the president to receive a verbal reprimand from the Senate for violating the U.S. Constitution, as well as a period of “time out” in which Mr. Bush will be required to sit in the corner of the Oval Office and to think about what he has done.
According to the text of the legislation, the president will have one minute of time out for each patriotic American whose civil rights were violated when the NSA tapped terrorist communications.
Sen. Feingold, a likely 2008 presidential candidate who co-sponsored the landmark Campaign Finance Reform Act, said he’s taking this aggressive step so that “in the future Americans will be able to say ‘Feingold’ without saying ‘McCain’ first.”
The McCain-Feingold measure eliminated the corrupting influence of big money from political campaigns.
A rival version of the censure bill, backed by moderate Republicans, calls for a one-week disciplinary period during which Air Force One, the president’s plane, would be grounded.
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1 Balanced News Blog » Blog Archive » Senator Proposes Censuring President Bush // Mar 13, 2006 at 10:04 am
[...] But Senator Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican and the majority leader, called the censure proposal “a crazy political move.” And Senator John W. Warner, a Virginia Republican and chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said it was “the worst type of political grandstanding.” [...]
2 Don Surber // Mar 13, 2006 at 11:19 am
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3 Small Town Veteran // Mar 13, 2006 at 6:59 pm
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Don Feingold de la Madison censures Bush *** Michelle Malkin has thought on the matter here, with an update here. Curt at Flopping Aces has two excellent posts on the subject here and here. Jay at Stop The ACLU comments
4 The Median Sib // Mar 13, 2006 at 11:08 pm
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