Reply #62: Not "Framing" -- Just Simple Truths and Moral Positions

[pat_k]

A vote against Censure doesn't turn them into accomplices in Bush's crimes. They already were accomplices. A vote against Censure would just confirm the role they are already playing.

Their silence made them accomplices. Every day that they failed to accuse and demand accountability, they served the criminals.

They may feel like the resolution is putting them on the spot or needlessly forcing them to go on the record, but that is not what this is about at all. By introducing the Censure resolution, Sen. Feingold is giving them a golden opportunity -- a chance to redeem themselves and finally take a step away from complicity.

You hit the nail on the head on what we need to be asking our Senators.

They are lost in a fog of rationalization. We need to pose the stark questions and keep prodding them to tell us why they hesitate.

But, we need to do more than read them the riot act. We need to ask WHY they hestitate to take this opportunity to shed the bonds of complicity. We can't directly challenge their rationalizations they assert them. If we don't challenge and stamp out the wrong-headed notions that block principled action, they'll continue to invoke those notions to dismiss whatever we hit them with.