This is not a matter of politics but is a matter of principle. You can be critical of the politics but there is much at stake here. With the Bush administration's habitual need to manipulate the American people with fear and use that fear to suspend part of the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights through enactment of a "Patriot" Act, expansive growth of intrusive surveillance of the populace and preference for an epidemic of government secrecy and a chronic belief the chief executive can operate above the law on the backdrop of leading the nation into war on false premises resulting in thousands upon thousands of deaths U.S. and foreign he not only needs to be censured, he and his entire PNAC administration, if it were possible, need to be impeached. We will see how the "law and order party" handle breaking of the law. Breaking of the law is key. If the American people believe Bush broke the law they will favor censure.
As for the notion of this backfiring on Feingold and the Democrats it can certainly be done if the corporate owned, republican based media intend on portraying it that way but censure is more of a slap on the hand than anything drastic and the people have been if anything frustrated that the Democrats have not been doing more so this will likely be absorbed as filling in for lack of political action rather than extremism. Many Democrats see this as a threat to keep them out of party dominance in 2006 when, if regaining congress, they can then actually begin investigations and even pursue impeachment but the Demo's better begin to stand up for something now if they want any real support in the fall.
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