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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:04 PM
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Dems, support Feingold's censure resolution! Let R's justify a NO vote!
Edited on Mon Mar-13-06 06:51 PM by flpoljunkie
Let the Republicans go on record in support of a President who feels he is above the rule of law and is contemptous of the oversight role of Congress, as well.
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OrangeCountyDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:06 PM
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1. I Got A Bulletin For Ya....
Not all dems are going to support the censure. We'll be lucky if half of them support it. Sorry to break the news to you, but that's the way things are these days.
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:10 PM
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2. spineless sissies....what is wrong with Dems nowadays? n/t
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:12 PM
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4. List the fuckers and let's flood their offices with calls and faxes.
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:13 PM
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6. Contact information for all Senators. Link below.
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:28 PM
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11. Roger that. I'm going to the hotel put on the PJs & order room service
and I'm going to start emailing east coast and callin the west coast. HOT DAMN!
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:14 PM
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7. Then let them justify their NO votes, along with the Republicans.
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lillilbigone Donating Member (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:15 PM
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8. I don't really consider your uninformed opinion a 'bulletin'
have any Dems come out against it? Or are you just doing the knee-jerk bash Dems thing?
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enlightenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:26 PM
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9. Yes. Lieberman, Pelosi, and Reid among them.
The nice thing about liberals is that they believe in the diversity of opinion.
Unfortunately, it makes trying to get them all to agree on anything harder than herding cats.
Peace.
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OzarkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:27 PM
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10. Opinion has nothing to do with it
upholding the laws and the Constitution are the issue. Do they support the Constitution or not?
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enlightenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:48 PM
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16. Ozark, I'm not agreeing with those Dems.
Hell, Reid is my senator and I've gotten to where I cringe every time he opens his mouth.
I believe * broke the law -- I believe we have ample evidence to have him impeached; that's MY opinion.
However --
I also believe the Constitution was written to be interpreted (I disagree with Antonin Scalia). I believe that the founders wrote it in a way to ensure its usefulness and relevancy for all generations of Americans.

As such, there is no ONE answer encoded in the Constitution or in the laws that have come from the various interpretations of it. That's what the Supreme Court does -- interpret the existing law within their (personal) understanding of the Constitution. Majority "opinion" wins. Sometimes we like their opinions and sometimes we don't.

Do those Dem senators support the Constitution? Depends on how they interpret it, I suppose. I'd like to think that they feel the same way I do, but it sure doesn't seem that way.

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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:50 PM
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17. Of course Reid would decline support, if he has not read the resolution.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:11 PM
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3. Well, it might not happen but it would be quite a sight.
No way the commercial media could ignore that.
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SongOfTheRayne Donating Member (248 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:13 PM
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5. I hardly dared to hope for impeachment....but this would be the next-best
thing. For too long the Democrats have been labled as 'soft on crime', and this is their chance to prove otherwise. To prove that they will oppose any and ALL crimes against America as a free nation.

Too bad that swing voters wouldn't support congresmen who express opinions different than those of a doormat.
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hvn_nbr_2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:39 PM
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12. Source for this information? nt
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rainy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:44 PM
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13. Feingold Draws Little Support for Censure
Feingold Draws Little Support for Censure

Staff and agencies
By LAURIE KELLMAN

03/13/06 " Local News Leader" -- -- WASHINGTON - Democrats distanced themselves Monday from Wisconsin Sen. Russell Feingold‘s effort to censure President Bush over domestic spying. Vice President Dick Cheney , visiting Feingold‘s state, called the resolution an "outrageous proposition."

"Don‘t hold back," Cheney said.

Asked at a press conference whether he would vote for the censure resolution, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada declined to endorse it and said he hadn‘t read it.

Sen. Joe Lieberman , D-Conn., said he had not read it either and wasn‘t inclined simply to scold the president.

Feingold, a possible contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, released a five-page censure resolution that accuses Bush of violating the Constitution and the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

The resolution says censuring Bush also is warranted by "his failure to inform the full congressional intelligence committees as required by law, and his efforts to mislead the American people about the authorities relied upon by his administration to conduct wiretaps and about the legality of the program."

In 1999, Senate Republicans tried but failed to bring a censure resolution against President Clinton after he was acquitted by the Senate on House impeachment charges that he committed perjury and obstructed justice in the Monica Lewinsky affair.

"The outrageous proposition that we ought to protect our enemies‘ ability to communicate as it plots against America poses a key test of our Democratic leaders," he said. "Do they support the extreme and counterproductive antics of a few or do they support a lawful program vital to the security of this nation?

Feingold was the lone senator to oppose the 2001 Patriot Act. Two weeks ago, he was joined by only three other senators in opposing a renewal of the law with some new curbs on police powers. Feingold called the curbs meaningless



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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:45 PM
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15. Holy Joe Lieberman only scolds Democratic presidents!
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:44 PM
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14.  Am urging ALL Dems vote to censure Bush,or justify NO vote, along with
the Republicans.
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bluedog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:52 PM
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18. any member who votes NO.........is as corrupt as *
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:53 PM
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19. Let the spineless Dems justify a NO vote, along with the Republicans.
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AzDar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 07:33 PM
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20. Feingold is a HERO....and history will view this lone patriot as such,
imho.
The Dems (and Republicans) who don't support his courageous stand should be remembered for what THEY failed to do:
call the criminals OUT!!!
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 08:52 PM
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21. I'm with you, AzDar!
Just wrote to my 2 dem senators.

Told them we are BEGGING for leadership.
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 08:18 AM
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22. Have you contacted your Senator? Vote may be today, if Dems cannot
postpone--which may well enable Feingold to get more support.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 08:26 AM
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23. All who vote against censure are aiding and abetting a criminal
That's the way I see it, and they are just as guilty as * himself if they don't support this resolution. To not support it is to support * and his illegal activities against Americans, which are in violation of the Constitution.

All who do not support should be VOTED OUT OF OFFICE - THEY ARE ALSO CRIMINALS, AND THEY ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOBS PROTECTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

To know a crime is taking place, and to do nothing about it and to allow it to continue is a crime in and of itself.
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