Can anyone find a Senate Democrat, outside of Russ Feingold, with a spine? As we all know, Feingold wants the Senate to censure the president because of the refusal by the president to abide by the law. Responding to Feingold, Senate Democrats are doing what seems to be natural: scurrying for cover.

EVEN THOUGH BUSH PUBLICLY SAID HE WOULD NOT FOLLOW THE LAW!!! (Sorry for the shouting but it’s unbelievable):

Bush shuns Patriot Act requirement
In addendum to law, he says oversight rules are not binding

By Charlie Savage, Globe Reporter
March 24, 2006
WASHINGTON — When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the
USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he
did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress
about how the FBI was using the act’s expanded police powers.

The bill contained several oversight provisions intended to make sure
the FBI did not abuse the special terrorism-related powers to search
homes and secretly seize papers. The provisions require Justice
Department officials to keep closer track of how often the FBI uses
the new powers and in what type of situations. Under the law, the
administration would have to provide the information to Congress by
certain dates.

Bush signed the bill with fanfare at a White House ceremony March 9,
calling it ”a piece of legislation that’s vital to win the war on
terror and to protect the American people.” But after the reporters
and guests had left, the White House quietly issued a ”signing
statement,” an official document in which a president lays out his
interpretation of a new law.

In the statement, Bush said that he did not consider himself bound to
tell Congress how the Patriot Act powers were being used and that,
despite the law’s requirements, he could withhold the information if
he decided that disclosure would ”impair foreign relations, national
security, the deliberative process of the executive, or the
performance of the executive’s constitutional duties.”

Bush wrote: ”The executive branch shall construe the provisions . .
… that call for furnishing information to entities outside the
executive branch . . . in a manner consistent with the president’s
constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch
and to withhold information . . . “

Do Democrats not care that the president is effectively saying “I am king, I make the rules here no matter what you say, I will decide what to tell you and I will decide what laws to follow”?