The right thing to do

Be sure and check out these two blurbs at Crooks and Liars about, respectively, Russ Feingold's appearance on last night's Daily Show, and the new GOP attack ad against the Gentleman from Wisconsin.

And for God's sake, America, contact your Senators - or all the Senators for that matter - and demand that they support Feingold's call for Censure. Democrats in particular should be ashamed that they haven't immediately and unanimously supported this simple call for Presidential responsibility.

I don't care what the naysayers are naysaying. This is not a partisan stunt. It is not a sign of treason. It is not an act undermining the "war effort." It is not "going too far in an election year" - in fact, as I've stated before, it doesn't necessarily go far enough.

But it's an absolutely essential start.

The issue here is simple and straightforward. Is the Executive branch above the law? Is the President of the United States accountable for his arbitrary dismissal of rules and regulations? Is George W. Bush an elected official or a monarch?

I don't want to hear any more about "bad political timing" and "doomed to failure" and "we don't want to upset the undecideds in November." Poll numbers be damned - the Motion for Censure is simply The. Right. Thing. To. Do.

If we value what's left of our democracy, we'll raise a fervent cry to our Washington representatives that they stand up and actually represent. The President's job is to protect the Constitution and the laws of the United States. If he's allowed to escape even an official (and largely symbolic) reprimand when he has betrayed that oath, then just what kind of a nation are we allegedly fighting to protect?