Posted on 03/16/2006 11:27:46 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
Minnesota Sen. Mark Dayton Thursday strongly criticized fellow Democrat Russ Feingold's resolution to censure President Bush over domestic spying.
"It's an overreaching step by someone who is grandstanding and running for president at the expense of his own party and his own country," Dayton said of Feingold, a Wisconsin senator and potential 2008 presidential candidate.
"I think it's a very dangerous territory for the democracy that we have in this country to be playing around with those kinds of resolutions, without any consultations from his colleagues. I think it was irresponsible."
Dayton is a member of Feingold's own party from a neighboring state, and has himself been one of Bush's harshest critics.
Dayton said he and his Democratic colleagues were "blindsided" by Feingold's proposal, made on ABC News on Sunday.
"For somebody who wants to lead our party and our nation, I think consultation and forewarning is a prerequisite to that kind of leadership," he said.
Feingold's resolution condemns Bush's "unlawful authorization of wiretaps of Americans within the United States without obtaining the court orders required" by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It has won virtually no support in the Senate.
Feingold's office did not immediately respond phone and e-mail messages left Thursday.
I wonder if he said that while hiding under his desk...he is such a scairdy-cat...LOL
....then, Senator Dayton resumed his position, cowering under his desk....
"It's an overreaching step by someone who is grandstanding and running for president at the expense of his own party and his own country,"It's a little late, don't ya think Sinister Dayton!!!
i should have predicted they would have used this one term tool to end the conversation on Fiengold. There is NO way Dayton did this on his own...
this will get no msm attention but if it was a pub doing it to bush then all hell would break loose
My thought as well. Lol.
I guess great minds...
Either he's on Team Hillary or he's not so upset about Claude Allen's (alleged) shoplifting of his family's store.
Given it's true he isn't running again, that may speak more to their motivation than his. Let someone who's not running do the dirty work, as it can't affect his popularity one way or the other. That keeps the Dim's hands clean so they can solicit their base without having an anti-censure stance hanging over their heads.
I am more and more convinced the Democrats are becoming the Republicans that were doomed to wander for 40 years.
http://www.libertynet.org/edcivic/fdr.html
From FDR's Four Freedoms Speech...(Sounds like GW's inaugration speech)
The Congress of course, must rightly keep itself informed at
all times of the progress of the program. However, there is
certain information, as the Congress itself will readily
recognize, which, in the interests of our own security and
those of the nations that we are supporting, must of needs
be kept in confidence.
New circumstances are constantly begetting new needs for our
safety. I shall ask this Congress for greatly increased new
appropriations and authorizations to carry on what we have
begun.
.....
The best way of dealing with the few slackers or
trouble-makers in our midst is, first, to shame them by
patriotic example, and if that fails, to use the sovereignty
of government to save government.
Wonder who woke him up ?
Dayton is done in the senate after this term- he is stepping down. He doesnt have to worry about what the nuts in his party think anymore, he doesnt have to hide his opinions.
Gee, I wonder who is up for reelection this November?
""I think it's a very dangerous territory for the democracy that we have in this country"
If our own Congress critters don't understand that we live in a 'Republic' and NOT a 'Democracy', how are the American people supposed to understand it?
They obviously aren't being taught it in school!
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