Feingold Picks Up Sponsor For Censure

Formally announcing what is now his second misguided effort to censure President George Bush, despite a lack of approval by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senator Feingold was relieved to learn from NBC that there is at least some support for what Cornell University characterizes as a strongly worded letter with no basis in Constitutional Law.

NBC has notified Feingold that there would indeed be sponsorship for such an effort, just as soon as they can schedule a repeat of season three of West Wing.

The fictional President in Aaron Sorkin's "West Wing" a full hour series on NBC also was censured in Season 3.

Actor Martin Sheen could not be reached for comment. He's said to be off with son Charlie building tiny little replicas of the World Trade Towers in an on going effort to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the United States government was indeed behind 9/11.

The only other known effort at Presidential censure was expunged, or perhaps cancelled is the better word, assuming one gets their political news via NBC.

Three years later, a Democratic Senate "expunged" the censure from the record. However, that act of censure had no basis in either the Constitution or the Rules of the House and Senate. This remains true today. Ordinarily, Congressional disapproval of the President is relayed either through its legislative power including the veto override power or through impeachment.

But then, that's the nature of entertainment, after all.

Comments

[richard tully]

it should be feingold beeing censure and impeached not the president he has been right in all the his actions sence 9/11 save one.

[D. J. Robinson, Esq.]

I think if you will check, the Republicans wanted to censure President Clinton. Censure is not TV fantasy, while there it carries NO legal consequences it is NOT prohibited by the Constitution. Andrew Jackson faced a Senate censure over bank charters in 1836, John Tyler received a House rebuke for using his Veto excessively in 1842. James Polk faces House censure for starting the war with Mexico in 1848 and James Buchanan received similar from the House over Naval contracts in 1860. Matter of fact, Abraham Lincoln was condemned by the Senate for allowing a congressman to hold an Army commission.

Again, censure doe not have any real legal weight, it is an admonishment, a stern letter if you will, but it's NOT just TV fantasy. Study your facts before writing an article please. I'm a Constitutional Attorney and while there is argument as to the existence of censures for the president, censures have existed in our history. In the absence of Constitutional endorsement or prohibition, both Senate and House rules allow each legislative body to to do as they see fit.

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