GOP Stake in Censure

As many Republicans focus on defending the President, they are losing sight of what ceding these powers to the President now will mean for their own party down the road. Those expansive powers will rest with whoever sits in the Oval Office. Republicans who argue today that the President has the power to ignore a law passed by Congress are relinquishing authority not just to this Republican President, but to future presidents of any party. They are helping to render future members of their own party powerless to check an executive who claims expansive powers under the Constitution or a future Authorization for Use of Military Force resolution.

- Senator Russ Feingold

More here. He really makes a good case for the GOP to stand up and be counted. But, with an election in November and the Republican Party chairman saying stand by the President at all costs, I doubt the American people can expect any less than a rubber-stamping of Bush policy.