Kudos to Durbin on his answer on censure . Read if you have not read yet

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Excellent answer by Durbin about censure.

Bush should be held responsible if he violated the law, but the investigation should be held before.

Of course, a lot of people have been saying that censure is a question of principle.

But what of the main principle of our justice system: " innocent until proven guilty". This is based on this principle that Durbin (and probably other liberals) are not calling for censure, but for investigation. Of course, if Feingold had consulted with his colleagues, he could have made a common move with them, and a move that could have been co-sponsored by a huge number of Democrats (Lieberman excepted, of course).

And he succeeds in doing that without attacking Feingold, which is even better.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060319/ap_on_go_co/bush_censure;_ylt=AtLNBDC5dYEBPIsSp9EKuAeyFz4D;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--

Durbin: Bush Censuring May Be Premature

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WASHINGTON - A top Senate Democrat said Sunday that
President Bush should be held responsible if he violated the law in authorizing the domestic spy program.

But Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said it is too early to tell if either censure or impeachment of Bush would be appropriate.

"I can't rule anything out until the investigation is complete. I don't want to prejudge it," said Durbin, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat. "But if this president or any president violates the law, he has to be held accountable."
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"It's valuable that Senator Feingold is moving us forward to finally be a catalyst to have the kind of hearings and the kind of deliberations as to what lies behind this warrantless wiretap situation," said Durbin, calling the overall inquiries so far by the Republican-controlled Senate inadequate.

"We have a responsibility to ask the hard questions, to find out what the nature of the program is and whether the president violated the law," Durbin said.