THE NEW CENSURIONS

    Senator Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, has proposed
something with no legal significance but maybe some moral, and that is
to call for a motion in the Senate to censure President Bush.  Mr.
Feingold feels it should be on the record that the American electorate
expects accountability to all that’s gone wrong in Iraq, and, on point,
Gordon Smith, R-Oregon, said recently also on the record in session,
that this Iraq situation “may have criminal elements”.  David
Brooks, however, has commented this action might make Republicans who
wish to distance themselves from the president be drawn to defend
him.  Ironic, isn’t it, if despite Mr. Feingold’s attempt to be a
uniter, he winds up being a divider instead.  But . . . if that
proves to be the case, we’d expect Mr. Brooks to consider such
misdirection rather presidential, and give Mr. Feingold support
accordingly, because, that is a precedent we at the Faux did not “pull
out of the air”.