Wakeup Call
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Sunday April 2, 2006
The Senate Judiciary Committee convened on Friday to consider Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold’s censure resolution against the Smirking POTUS for his “unlawful authorization of wiretaps of Americans within the United States without obtaining the court orders required.”
Presented with a historic perspective on how the Smirking POTUS’ actions stack up against the illegal transgressions of Richard Milhouse Nixon, former White House legal counsel John Dean, who himself spent four months in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal, offered poignant testimony before the bi-partisan committee.
Imploring the Congress to not fail in their duty to the country, and to exercise the very governmental oversight that they are charged with, Dean asserted that President Bush may have even exceeded former President Nixon in terms of his wrongdoing and scope of his actions.
“Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented,” Dean told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it.”
Fiengold, so far only joined by two fellow Democrats, Senators Tom Harkin of Iowa and Barbara Boxer of California, implored his colleagues to look beyond partisanship and to recognize that there is more at stake than simple party politics.
“If we in the Congress don’t stand up for ourselves and the American people, we become complicit in the lawbreaking,” Feingold, D-Wis., told the panel. “The resolution of censure is the appropriate response.”
The Republicans on the committee were quick to cast the proceedings as nothing more than election year grandstanding, refusing to follow either Fiengold or Dean down their respective roads. But this Leftwing Nutjob finds it more disturbing that Senate Democrats, some with presidential aspirations, would find it so difficult to join their colleague and support his censure resolution.
Playing politics merely for the here and now, and actively abdicating their Constitutional responsibilities, does nothing to protect either the dignity or the sanctity of the office that they ascribe to. If anything at all, the political careers of these hand-wringers should be flushed down the toilet alongside of the very U.S. Constitution that they refuse to protect.
That means you, John Kerry.
Source:
John Dean appears at hearing on whether Bush should be censured – CNN.com
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Podcast #117
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Tuesday April 15, 2008
Leftwing Nutjob Podcast, Episode 117, for Sunday, April 13, 2008
Penn hits the bricks, Iran in the spotlight again, the Obama money machine, al Qaeda’s rising star and more!