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Carl makes a good point: Feingold appears to have blindsided his Democratic Senate colleagues with the censure announcement. Likewise, Democrats who go on Fox News and complained about his fellow Democrats aren't doing much to promote party discipline.
If the Censure proposal were serious, which I think would be good politics (I'd love to see Mike DeWine, Lincoln Chafee, and Conrad Burns cast a vote that is basically "Bush: Yes or No"), it wouldn't be Feingold all alone. And the message would be "censure and move on". Everyone would talk about what a huge distraction the Clinton impeachment became. Diane Feinstein would hold a press conference with the two dozen Democrats who supported the Clinton censure. Everyone would talk about how this was a similar situation and while Congress needs to get back to its business, Bush should know that he cannot simply ignore the will of Congress.
Instead, Feingold made an announcement, then whined when Senate leadership didn't support him.
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