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Senator Feingold has it right: The President just can’t make up laws
March 12, 2006

On Monday, Senator Feingold will introduce legislation calling for President Bush to be censured for violating the law on domestic wiretaps. Nowhere is Feingold suggesting that the current law must remain, not be debated or not be changed…he has brilliantly separated the two issues…one is about the eventual shape of the current law…the other, more important issue, is about a President who makes up laws as he goes along, who decides on what laws he is going to follow based on his personal dictates and has such little respect for the American people that he lies to them on a regular basis.

The Feingold censure legislation will send a strong signal to the Bush Administration and the American people that laws must be followed even by a President who wishes they didn’t exist. Today, on ABC’s “This Week,” Senator Feingold said it much better than me…

“There can be debate about whether the law should be changed. There can be debate about how best to fight terrorism. We all believe that there should be wiretapping in appropriate cases -- but the idea that the president can just make up a law, in violation of his oath of office, has to be answered."

Posted by Michael Kempner at March 12, 2006 11:04 PM