Media Matters for America catches MSNBC's Chris Matthews in an unfortunate inconsistency:
Chris Matthews claimed that "there's a big question about whether it's even legal or not in the Senate" to censure President Bush, as Sen. Russ Feingold recently proposed, over Bush's authorization of warrantless domestic surveillance. But Matthews said something very different about the issue of censure in the context of former President Bill Clinton, at that time taking credit for first promoting the idea of censuring Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky controversy: "I'm not bragging, but I believe I was the first person to talk about the notion of censure because nobody else talked about it."Flippity-floppity.
I actually agreed that censure was a good remedy for the Clinton situation.
Given the abuses of power (and, quite possibly, law) we've seen the last five years, considering censure is the absolute least we should expect.
But, once again, our national Democratic leaders are unwilling to fight -- sending, once again, a bad message to the American people. After all, if an elected official is unwilling to fight for his or her beliefs, how can people expect that he or she will fight for them?
