I have only been watching the hearing on Feingold's Censure Resolution for a mere 1/2 hour. But have read the live blogging commentary.
What's clear is: Lindsey Graham makes me homicidal!!
What reinforces my white rage is the fashion with which this hearing (and ALL hearings in the Senate these days) is conducted:
I think. It's my opinion. What do you think? This uncontrolling dicta asks this question. This debate. This debate. This debate. Honest debate. Do you (four) think my bill is sufficient?
Dammit. We have on our hands a constitutional crisis, and the results of a Censure Resolution is hinged on the OPINIONS of a handful of people. It isn't a DEBATE, Mr. Graham. It's an INQUIRY!!!
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Look Folks.... did anyone see the swift and sure action with which the Senate was FORCED to deal with the immigration issue?
It is a direct response to the Street Protests.
We have to weigh in on this Censure Resolution.
And the only thing that will ensure an HONEST review is people in the streets. I expect the standard: write letters, call your senators... blah blah blah. Well, if THAT WORKED, Lindsey Graham would not have shown his pissy face at this hearing, and Durbin, Kennedy and Feinstein would have been there!!!!
It was not merely the number of illegal aliens who took to the streets, folks.
Please understand this: It was the speed with which this group took TO the streets. A bill was proposed, the people got riled, and they spoke up loudly and in numbers.
It was the impromptu, unplanned, visceral and immediate response to take to the streets when that nasty immigration bill surfaced that made every single politician's blood run cold. Even King George backed down!
So, I can take my time writing some great letters to senators and to the editors of the news rags. But I take my time at my own peril. At your peril. At our peril. At our children's peril.
We need to be in the streets of every capitol in this country. Sunday at 9am. Impromptu, unplanned, visceral and immediate.
Forgive me, I need to run out to my doctor and get a re-fill on my thorizine. I prefer to spend the money on some good walking shoes, though.
As Leahy said:
"We know the president broke the law."
What are WE going to do about it?
PS: ugh. Listening to Washington Journal. The president is protecting us? Well, we need to protect our constitution from this president, and from, as Lindsay Graham brilliantly points out, the inherent (and invisible) powers of future presidents.
Okay, to make my point, the friggin legislative branch of our government is on its way out the door for a ST. PATRICK's DAY RECESS!!!! If I heard that right. But, pretty much, the Congress is closed for the people's business. Even when they are there.
What are WE going to do about it?