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Feingold Speaks Truth to Power, and Stewart

From crooksandliars.com

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) says of the Bush administration, “They don’t even care that we have a system of laws.”

The Wisconsin senator whips Jon Stewart’s audience into a frenzy with his insistence on holding Bush accountable for his spying program.

Stewart wants to know how Feingold restrained himself from poking House Majority Leader John Boehner in the eye after Boehner suggested that Feingold cared more about terrorists than he did the American people.

Crooks and Liars:

Jon Stewart had on Russ Feingold tonight and let’s just say that he rocked. He rocked because he spoke truth to power. He made his case simply and to the point.

Feingold: I was taught that the congress makes the laws and the president is supposed to sign them and enforce them. He’s not supposed to make them up.—-How many times are we going to let George Bush and Dick Cheney say you guys don’t support the troops, you’re not patriotic and let them push us around?

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By Thomas A. Landers, March 23, 2006 at 8:43 am Link to this comment
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Thank you, Sen. Feingold. If only we had such courageous and honest senators in New York.

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By Joe Citizen, March 23, 2006 at 8:16 am Link to this comment
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I THINK NOT ...

Also not to be lost sight of (ATTN: mainstream media pundits and TV show hosts) is the fact that this call for accountability concerning the alleged illegal warrantless spying IS NOT A PARTISAN ISSUE. Not when you have conservative activists such as Grover Norquist, David Keene, Bruce Fein, Larry Pratt and Paul Weyrich voicing their objections, not to mention conservative legal scholars and think tanks. If you are interested, Charlie Savage did an article about this in February for the Boston Globe.

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