Reality Check- Feingold Measure Extra-Constitutional
I heard it said yesterday, the censure measure which Senator Russ Feingold has proposed is not found in the US Constitution. If that is so, then Feingold has done exactly the act for which he accuses the President, making up the law. And, if Feingold has begun an extra-Constitutional measure; shouldn't he be censured?
Of course, there is no finding of fact that the President has actually violated the Constitution. Feingold is not one of those members of Congress, (the 'do-nothing' branch of our government), who has been privy to all of the details of the terrorist surveillance program, (those who have seen the details seem impressed by the program's virtue). So, he doesn't know of which he speaks when he claims that the President is out of bounds.
Not that not knowing ever stops a Congressman from reaching a conclusion, they need only know what the poll numbers are, and in this case the poll numbers must indicate that this measure will gain him support for his own Presidential bid. One wonders what he would do as President though, as he and his compadres do everything they can to castrate the Presidency of all power to act. If elected, and if he were to follow the principles the Democrats now espouse, Feingold (or any liberal Democrat) as President would be on a four year paid vacation where he would have a front row seat from which to watch the courts run this country to a halt.
