Heart of (Fein)Gold

Russ has finally done something that members of the Senate have needed to do for two years: press the issue of reprimanding the President of the United States for unconsitutional actions. Russ Feingold (D-WI) filed to press the Senate to censure the President for the illegal series of wiretapping that was made publically known late last year. While the Democratic Party, with interests of winning elections instead of striving for justice or truth, has balked at following up Feingold's proposition; however, what the Senator has done has publically denounced the president's actions on a large governmental scale.
George Bush and his lawyers knowingly and doggedly drove the executive branch down an imperialistic, extra-legal course concerning issues of governmental power. Any coincidence with (now) Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' claiming of the Geneva Conventions as "quaint little documents" and the Abu Ghraib prison torture are disappeared; the executive's claim that all wiretapping was done within the legal confines of FISA (2002) and the reality of the executive's actions have been debunked; the president's wishful desires to see the government "play within the rules" have been realistically thrown out of the window as nearly all of the president's actions and positions on national security and action are truly extra-constitutional. George Bush is more deserving of any president to be censured (and truly impeached) since Richard Nixon. Reagan deserved to be pilloried for being clueless and dumb; Clinton deserved to be ridiculed for being caught; H.W. Bush deserved of being mocked for being a day late and a dollar short domestically; Carter deserved to be teased for being weak and yet no one other than George W. Bush deserves to be removed from office in my lifetime since Milhous's abuse of the executive branch and the abuse of the office. How do we count the ways? Easily.

1. invading the nation of Iraq
2. the wiretapping scandal
3. Abu Ghraib and the clearly-seen chain of command with torture ("Code Red", Rob Reiner?)


These are not political digs; these are not partisan attacks; how the entire world views the United States's fevered pitch to fascism can only be seen, though even citizens like myself see that the W. and his minions are truly deserving of a slap across the wrist and the ass for showing the greatest disregard for that "quaint" 1878 document that has only founded the nation and the ideals that we all stand for. I can't wait another seven years for the new U.S. history textbooks to analyze and asses the Bush presidency. Makes me wish for the Gingrich revolution and the late 1990s attack on the presidency for blowjobs and "moral impropriety".