Allard's Attack on Feingoli Is the Antithesis of Taft's Axiom on Criticism During Wartime
Republican Sen. Allard’s attacks on Sen. Feingold’s proposal to censure Pres. Bush as aiding and abetting terrorism are directly related to Scatablog.blogspot.com nailing of the root cause of the GOP attack on dissent by revealing the morphing of the GOP from moderates to rabid ideologues (3/14/06 Tool chest builder, a true conservative on wartime dissent and 3/15/06 No more Lake Wobegon). Scatalogue reminded us of Sen. Robt. A. Taft Sr.'s defense of criticism during war as a lynchpin of democracy (3/14) and how the party of the genial Pres. Eisenhower degenerated into the VP Cheney attack dog mentality.
The DNC must marshal what few democratic led corporations with major ad budget implications for the media to step up critical reporting of the Allard type un-American conduct. As noted by the NYT (3/17/06), the Democrats have hardly practiced what they preached. While Dr. Howard Dean recently called on Dems to chastise Allard, last year, Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and a member of the panel when it weighed proceedings against President Richard M. Nixon in 1974, proposed an initial inquiry into a censure or impeachment of Mr. Bush over the war. So far, the Conyers proposal has attracted support from about two dozen of the chamber's 201 Democrats. NYT went on to caution that other Democrats, mindful of the drubbing Republicans took over the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, have stepped carefully to avoid irking their most ardent supporters without endorsing the call for charges against Mr. Bush. . However, a drubbing hardly fits both Congressional houses controlled by Republicans.
With the GOP claiming Sen. Feingold censure proposal would backfire in the 2006 Congressional elections, Feingold responded at a press conference today, saying he doubted that lawbreaking by the President would hold up as a winning issue for Republicans. "If they think that," he said of Mr. Limbaugh and other conservative commentators, "it seems to me that they're as confused about this as they are about their Iraq policy.” (NYT, 3/17/06)Furthermore, NYT while quoting sources that acknowledged that the prospect of impeachment seemed far-fetched at the moment noted that. "It looked bizarre, too, when Father Robert F. Drinan and a handful of others, such as John Conyers Jr. in 1972 similarly were planning for the impeachment of President Nixon," he wrote in his newsletter. "When the moment of truth came, they were ready."
The DNC must marshal what few democratic led corporations with major ad budget implications for the media to step up critical reporting of the Allard type un-American conduct. As noted by the NYT (3/17/06), the Democrats have hardly practiced what they preached. While Dr. Howard Dean recently called on Dems to chastise Allard, last year, Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and a member of the panel when it weighed proceedings against President Richard M. Nixon in 1974, proposed an initial inquiry into a censure or impeachment of Mr. Bush over the war. So far, the Conyers proposal has attracted support from about two dozen of the chamber's 201 Democrats. NYT went on to caution that other Democrats, mindful of the drubbing Republicans took over the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, have stepped carefully to avoid irking their most ardent supporters without endorsing the call for charges against Mr. Bush. . However, a drubbing hardly fits both Congressional houses controlled by Republicans.
With the GOP claiming Sen. Feingold censure proposal would backfire in the 2006 Congressional elections, Feingold responded at a press conference today, saying he doubted that lawbreaking by the President would hold up as a winning issue for Republicans. "If they think that," he said of Mr. Limbaugh and other conservative commentators, "it seems to me that they're as confused about this as they are about their Iraq policy.” (NYT, 3/17/06)Furthermore, NYT while quoting sources that acknowledged that the prospect of impeachment seemed far-fetched at the moment noted that. "It looked bizarre, too, when Father Robert F. Drinan and a handful of others, such as John Conyers Jr. in 1972 similarly were planning for the impeachment of President Nixon," he wrote in his newsletter. "When the moment of truth came, they were ready."
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