If Feingold is so sure Bush broke the law, why did he admit to Chris Wallace that "one of the reasons I decided it was time for the censure resolution [is] because it became clear that there was not going to be the kind of investigation that had to happen to find out exactly what this program is all about"? In other words, he wants to invoke this draconian remedy for the backdoor purpose of finding out what the program entailed.

That's like charging a person with a crime without sufficient evidence he committed it so you can begin a fishing expedition -- under color of law and at government expense. This is precisely the type of abuse of process for which Feingold wants to censure President Bush.

Since Feingold called those who wouldn't join his censure move "cowards," one might assume he is a man of moral courage. But were you aware that Feingold once said, "Iraq presents a genuine threat, especially in the form of weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological, and potentially nuclear weapons. I agree that Saddam Hussein is exceptionally dangerous"? But has Feingold ever displayed the "courage" to condemn those who persistently accuse Bush of lying about WMD?

Even more to the point, have you ever read the exchange between Feingold and Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., on Sept. 26, 1996, concerning proposed legislation to ban partial-birth abortion? Now there's a profile in courage.

Essentially, Feingold refused to agree that if a baby's head emerges from the birth canal accidentally, the law should prevent the doctor from killing it. Demonstrating greater cowardice than could even be imagined by those he accused of cowardice, he said, "I am not the person to be answering that question. That is a question that should be answered by a doctor, and by the woman who received advice from the doctor."

So, he's willing to grant to doctors and mothers the prerogative to murder already-born human beings, and he says he's worried about President Bush having too much power?

Sen. Feingold, perhaps because of his deathly fear of defying the pro-abortion lobby, lacked the moral courage to exercise his constitutional duty to preempt a doctor and mother from "choosing" to kill an already-born baby. Instead, he hid behind the perniciously euphemistic ruse that this was a matter concerning the mother's health that she and her doctor had to decide.

Shame on the lecturing senator.