Continuing To Support Feingold

An update to my last entry on the status of the censure resolution...

Well the conservative pundits spent a good deal of time pummelling Sen. Feingold yesterday and are already smirking and considering the move dead. Certainly, it's a long shot, with most Democrats cowering and avoiding the issue. With the President at record low approval and with a string of massive failures on his hands, you wouldn't imagine it would be so hard for Sen. Feingold to find more support on this. After all, there was little to no hesitation to take down Clinton in 1998/1999. But listening to the debate on the Senate floor yesterday, most seem to really believe that in a time of war, holding the President accountable would be tanamount to treason. Sen. Feingold, luckily, has a higher opinion of the American people's intelligence and is pressing forward. Sen. Frist failed to force a vote last night and so the topic remains open.

Here are some videos to see what happened yesterday...

See the video of Sen. Feingold introducing the resolution to the Senate.

Then see this video of Sen. Frist desperate to force an immediate vote.

See also this video of Sen. Durbin and Sen. Specter debating the resolution, in which Durbin tries his best to get Specter to acknowledge his own stated misgivings about the President's legal behavior... This didn't end well. As Talking Point Memo's Josh Marshall noted-

Responding to Sen. Feingold, Sen. Specter is now arguing on the floor of the senate that FISA is unconstitutional. Ergo, President Bush couldn't have been violating the law becuase it's not valid law.

Quite a way for Specter to end his career.

To quote Charlie Brown, "good grief".

[PS- I will be calling my Senators' offices again today, and every day, until this comes to vote.]

[PPS- Al Gore has strong words of warning for the country.]