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Senator Harkin supports Censure "It is time for Congress to stand up and say enough!"

by Open-Publishing - Thursday 16 March 2006
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Tom Harkin: Why I Fully Support Bush Censure

We have a President who likes to break things. He has broken the federal budget, running up $3 trillion in new debt. He has broken the Geneva Conventions, giving the green light to torture. He has repeatedly broken promises - and broken faith - with the American people. And now, worst of all, he has broken the law.

In brazen violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), he ordered the National Security Agency to conduct warrantless wiretaps of American citizens. And, despite getting caught red-handed, he refuses to stop.

Let’s be clear: No American - and that must include the President - is above the law. And if we fail to hold Bush to account, then he will be confirmed in his conviction that he can pick and choose among the laws he wants to obey. This is profoundly dangerous to our democracy.

So it is time for Congress to stand up and say enough! That’s why, this week, Senator Russ Feingold proposed a resolution to censure George W. Bush for breaking the FISA law. And that’s why I fully support this resolution of censure.

Nothing is more important to me than the security of our country. Of course, we need to be listening to the terrorists’ conversations. And sometimes there is not time to get a warrant. That’s why the FISA law allows the President, when necessary, to wiretap first, and obtain a warrant afterward. But that’s not acceptable to this above-the-law President. He rejects the idea that he should have to obtain a warrant before or after wiretapping.

We have an out-of-control President whose arrogant and, now, illegal behavior is running our country into the ditch. It’s time to rein him in. And a fine place to start is by passing this resolution of censure. I hope that Senator Feingold’s measure will be brought to the floor. And when it is, I will proudly vote yes.

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Forum posts

  • I guess impeachment is out of the question.

  • NO, impeachment is NOT out of question and "WE THE PEOPLE" NEED TO DEMAND IT! AND NOW! It starts in the House! But FIRST, I SAY ARREST THEIR EVIL,LYING ,MURDERING ASSES BEFORE THEY BOMB SOME MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE, INCLUDING U.S. CITIZENS AGAIN, LIKE THEY DID ON 9-11! YES, THE EVIL BASTARDS WERE BEHIND 9-11, TOO! The Dubai port deal helps prove they are in bed with REAL terrorists! DEMAND AND NOW BUSH,CHENEY, RUMMIE AND CONDI,AND EVIL JOHN BOLTON BE ARRESTED AND NOW FOR TREASON, WAR CRIMES AND WAR PROFITEERING ALL! AND DEMAND NOT ONE MORE F*CKING DIME FOR WARS, WHICH IS BEING FUNNELED TO TERRORISTS THROUGH SAUDI’S INVESTMENT IN CARLYLE GROUP AND HALLIBURTON WHO ARE KNOWN TO FUNNEL $$ TO AlQueda, so our own tax dollars are funding terrorism! And WHERE IN HELL DID Trillion dollars go from Pentagon, before Iraq war? Where in HELL IS IT! WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA, BUSH REGIME AND OTHERS ARE IN BED WITH REAL TERRORISTS AND WERE BEHIND 9-11 AND ARE PROBABLY PLANNING ANOTHER FALSE FLAG ATTACK ON U.S TO BLAME ANOTHER INNOCENT COUTRY LIKE IRAN! GET A DAMN CLUE, SHEEP! DEMAND BUSH REGIME ARRESTS AND NOW, TO SAVE NOT ONLY AMERICA BUT THE WORLD! THEIR IDEA OF SPREADING FREEDOM IS CORPORATE FASCIST POLICE MILITARY STATES, AT HOME AND ABROAD TO USE OUR TROOPS TO SUPPRESS PEOPLE AND PUT PUPPETS IN CHARGE OF OTHER COUNTRIES THAT ANSWER TO BUSH AND D.C.! NOT FREEDOM! THEY ARE ORWELLIAN! TYRANNY AND SUPPRESSION=FREEDOM, WAR = PEACE, AND SO ON! GET A DAMN CLUE! THEY ARE IN BED WITH REAL TERRORISTS AND OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE HELPING FUND TERRORISM! DEMAND NOT ONE MORE DAMN DIME AND NOW! AND DEMAND ALL OUR TROOPS COME HOME AND NOW, BEFORE HE HAS THEM SO STRETCHED OUT ABROAD THAT WE BE INFILTRATED THROUGH OUR PORTS HERE AT HOME BY HIS BUDDIES THE ALQUEDA,ETC.!

  • And Demand that NOT only Bush regime be ARRESTED AND NOW! THEN IMPEACHED AFTER THEY ARE SAFETY OUT OF OFFICE BUT ALL THOSE IN CONGRESS TOO FROM BOTH SIDES OF ISLE WHO LET OUR NATION BE DESTROYED FROM WITHIN, AND ALL THOSE VOTING ALL THE TIME FOR MORE $$ FOR ILLEGAL WARS TOO NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE TOO AND NOW ALSO!