Harkin first to co-sponsor censure bill w/Feingold

[Debi]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2168683&mesg_id=2168683

This is awesome :bounce:

[IA_Seth]

1. Sweet!

Harkin is the man. I may not agree with everything he does, but I sure respect him and am proud to have him as our Senator!

[Debi]

5. Each time he votes 'against' the Bush administration I like him

more and more! Way to go TOM!!! :kick:

[Bluzmann57]

2. Three cheers for Senator Harkin!

Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray! I am very proud of the Junior Senator from our great state.

[vikegirl]

3. Even though I moved to Colorado a couple years ago

he's still my Senator! :loveya:

[rurallib]

4. Emailed a very heartfelt "thank you" a few hours ago.

Hopefully I will be able to email the same thank you to plains populist Chuck Grassley in the near future.
I do not understand why it is so goddamned hard for democrats to stand up for this. Bush not only admitted, but bragged about breaking the law and defying the constitution. ANd thay can't stand up for what is right.

[pstans]

6. Thank you Sen. Harkin

Send Sen. Harkin a Spine Card that you can download here...
http://www.backbonecampaign.org/page.cfm?id=67

[Debi]

7. I just saw this site today looking for the DNC voting members

How weird that you would post it here.....are you an ??

[progressoid]

8. I'll have to send him a nicer email than the one I sent this morning!!

I was pretty pissed about Dems sitting on their hands and told him so.

Happy to see he's stepping up to the plate!

[pstans]

9. Email from Harkin

Dear Friend,

We have a President who likes to break things. He has broken the federal budget, running up $3 trillion in new debt. He has broken the Geneva Conventions, giving the green light to torture. He has repeatedly broken promises – and broken faith – with the American people. And now, worst of all, he has broken the law.

In brazen violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), he ordered the National Security Agency to conduct warrantless wiretaps of American citizens. And, despite getting caught red-handed, he refuses to stop.

Let’s be clear: No American – and that must include the President – is above the law. And if we fail to hold Bush to account, then he will be confirmed in his conviction that he can pick and choose among the laws he wants to obey. This is profoundly dangerous to our democracy.

So it is time for Congress to stand up and say enough! That’s why, this week, Senator Russ Feingold proposed a resolution to censure George W. Bush for breaking the FISA law. And that’s why I fully support this resolution of censure.

Nothing is more important to me than the security of our country. Of course, we need to be listening to the terrorists’ conversations. And sometimes there is not time to get a warrant. That’s why the FISA law allows the President, when necessary, to wiretap first, and obtain a warrant afterward. But that’s not acceptable to this above-the-law President. He rejects the idea that he should have to obtain a warrant before or after wiretapping.

We have an out-of-control President whose arrogant and, now, illegal behavior is running our country into the ditch. It’s time to rein him in. And a fine place to start is by passing this resolution of censure. I hope that Senator Feingold’s measure will be brought to the floor. And when it is, I will proudly vote yes.

Best Regards,
Tom Harkin