[AGL] Dim, Dimmer, & Dimmest

[Harry Edwards]

It's time to excommunicate some Washington Dimmercrats. Feingold has 
balls; mebbe Dean; certainly John Murtha. What would Diogenes think?    
              twisty

"I'm amazed at Democrats ... cowering with this president's numbers so 
low," Feingold said.

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Feingold Assails Dems on Bush Censure

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer

Wisconsin Sen. Russell Feingold accused fellow Democrats on Tuesday of 
cowering rather than joining him on trying to censure President Bush 
over domestic spying.

"Democrats run and hide" when the administration invokes the war on 
terrorism, Feingold told reporters.

Feingold introduced censure legislation Monday in the Senate but not a 
single Democrat has embraced it. Several have said they want to see the 
results of a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation before 
supporting any punitive legislation.

Republicans dismissed the proposal Tuesday as being more about 
Feingold's 2008 presidential aspirations than Bush's actions. On and 
off the Senate floor, they have dared Democrats to vote for the 
resolution.

"I'm amazed at Democrats ... cowering with this president's numbers so 
low," Feingold said.

The latest AP-Ipsos poll on Bush, conducted last week, found just 37 
percent of the 1,000 people surveyed approving his overall performance, 
the lowest of his presidency.

Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., tried to hold a vote Monday on 
Feingold's resolution but was blocked by Democrats. He said Tuesday 
that Feingold should withdraw the resolution because it has no support.

"If the Democrats continue to say no to voting on their own censure 
resolution, then they ought to drop it and focus on our foreign policy 
in a positive way," Frist said in a statement.

Feingold's resolution condemns Bush's "unlawful authorization of 
wiretaps of Americans within the United States without obtaining the 
court orders required" by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance 
Act.

The only president ever censured by the Senate was Andrew Jackson, in 
1834, for removing the nation's money from a private bank in defiance 
of the Whig-controlled Senate.