Feingold Accuses Senate Democrats of "Cowering" to Bush
I’m amazed at Democrats, cowering with this president’s numbers so low. The administration just has to raise the specter of the war and the Democrats run and hide. … Too many Democrats are going to do the same thing they did in 2000 and 2004. In the face of this, they’ll say we’d better just focus on domestic issues. … [Democrats shouldn’t] cower to the argument, that whatever you do, if you question the administration, you’re helping the terrorists.
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posted by EAPrez @ 10:01 PM
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They should stand up to legislation and especially judges pushed by Bush, yes.
But I disagree with the censure motion.
Here is why:
1. We don't have the votes to win it. When we lose, it says more about our ineffectiveness than it does the President's.
2. Our energy could be more successful if brought together on a positive cause: for example, universal health care or a deadline for Iraq withdrawal. Even if Bush were successfully censured, it would achieve--exactly nothing.
3. Voters (and I'm a Precinct committeeman, I talk to a lot of voters) already know we don't like the President and can criticize Republican policies. And a lot of them agree with us, that the Republicans have failed. But they won't vote for us because they think we don't have a plan and don't stand for anything. Censuring the President isn't a plan and doesn't stand for anything. Health coverage for everyone, affordable college, higher teacher pay, getting rid of the high income Social Security wage tax exemption, prohibiting political donations from lobbyists or corporate jet flights, a staged and scheduled withdrawal from Iraq, these are plans and things we can stand for.
4. Since a censure won't achieve anything, suppose that (as I imagine some hope, although in my opinion delusionally) this were to steamroll into a movement to impeach Bush. And, after launching all of our efforts at it, we prevail! The Shrub is GONE!! Oh, Happy day! And the reward? We get to watch on TV: "I, Dick Cheney, do solemnly swear..."
Let's focus on what we can do, and what it will make a difference if we do succeed at, instead of all this pie in the sky that won't happen and won't help us a bit if it does.
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