Lots of people are upset about the Democrats' initialperformance on the resolution to censure Bush for his illegal wiretapping, andthey're right to be. From what I know ofFISA, wiretapping without following the laughably easy conditions for getting awarrant (you can seek your warrant after you wiretap) is illegal and inexcusable. The censure resolution is totally right on the merits. The politics is a tighter issue, but a slightplurality of Americans seem to agree with it. So we need to step up and make our case. Most Democrats have better things to run on, but most Democrats don’t have to do very much to help us use this against GOP Senators from tough states. Which is just a long-winded way of saying – I agree, mostly, with Digby. At least as far as the first week is concerned, Senate Democrats were painful to watch.
But Digby and I part ways when it comes to Feingold's tacticof launching the censure resolution without giving the other Democrats anyadvance notice:
