The best thing that can be said about the call by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) to censure President Bush is that practically none of his colleagues is backing him up.
Democrats are not, as he charges, “cowering” in the face of possible Republican allegations that they are pro-terrorist. Rather, they don’t want to distract attention from the main Democratic assaults on Bush and the GOP – that he’s “incompetent” and that Republicans are in “disarray.”
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