March 13, 2006
Mr. President, when the President of the United States breaks the law, he must be held accountable. That is why today I am introducing a resolution to censure President George W. Bush...
...The facts are straightforward: Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as “FISA”, nearly 30 years ago to ensure that as we wiretap suspected terrorists and spies, we also protect innocent Americans from unjustified government intrusion. FISA makes it a crime to wiretap Americans on U.S. soil without the requisite warrants, and the President has ordered warrantless wiretaps of Americans on U.S. soil. The President has broken that law, and that alone is unacceptable. But the President did much more than that.
Not only did the President break the law, he also actively misled Congress and the American people about his actions, and then, when the program was made public, about the legality of the NSA program.
He has fundamentally violated the trust of the American people...
Monday, March 13, 2006
This Sounds Like a Good Idea
Censure is not the same as impeachment. Even if it is not impeachment, it is a step in the right direction. But the larger question remains, why are we not impeaching the chimp?
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The question I hear a lot is: "Can't we fire him for incompetence?" Strangely, it doesn't seem so. Not that I know my constitutional law that well. Nor does Bush for that matter...
Let's just skip all this and have him put in prison. He has caused needless death and to me that's about all we need.
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