Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) announced on This Week that he will make a motion to formally censure Bush for his domestic spying program. The resolution says Bush "repeatedly misled the public prior to the public disclosure of the National Security Agency surveillance program by indicating his administration was relying on court orders to wiretap suspected terrorists inside the United States." Feingold said "This conduct is right in the strike zone of the concept of high crimes and misdemeanors" and feels it's Congress' responsibility to not ignore this crime.
He says the thinks the motion to censure has a better change than impeachment would. Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) already said it won't make it to the floor. If so it will be another example of the Republican Congress protecting their President. Earlier in the week Sen Pat Roberts (R-KS), chairman of the (oxymoronic) Senate Intelligence Committee headed a vote against an investigation on the matter. It's not the first time Roberts has covered for Bush, in fact Think Progress has compiled an extensive list of how the SIC is failing at it's mission "to provide vigilant legislative oversight". Maybe we should censure them.
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