Ah, the Sopranos are back, I’m on Spring Break, there’s a Marc Maron Show tonight (albeit delayed due to the Clippers), an excellent episode of the West Wing, and SU is Big East Champion (thanks to an Irishman from a blue collar town in the Northeast), and headed to the NCAA’s (for more than one and done, I hope). All is once again right with the world. Well, not all, maybe. Rightwing crazies are still in charge of all three branches of government, we’re helping the Brits build a new nuke, there’s a new bill in the works that would make it illegal for reporters to report on the government illegally spying on us, there’s drought in Kenya, genocide in Darfur, Iraq is, well, still Iraq, and we’re getting ready to make things even worse by fucking with Iran.

But, hey, other than that….

Anyway, as you probably already know, yesterday Russ Feingold announced that he’ll be introducing a resolution in the Senate today to censure George W. Bush. The resolution condemns Bush’s actions in authorizing the illegal wiretapping program and then misleading the country about the existence and legality of the program. Feingold calls the resolution “an appropriate and responsible step for Congress to take in response to the President’s undermining of the separation of powers and ignoring the rule of law.”

“The President must be held accountable for authorizing a program that clearly violates the law and then misleading the country about its existence and its legality,” Feingold said. “The President’s actions, as well as his misleading statements to both Congress and the public about the program, demand a serious response. If Congress does not censure the President, we will be tacitly condoning his actions, and undermining both the separation of powers and the rule of law.”

So, your mission today, should you choose to accept it, is to call your Senator’s office, and ask them if they support the Feingold resolution. If not, ask them why not. If they don’t know or won’t say, ask them when you can call back to find out what their official position is. When they can’t tell you that, say, “that’s OK, I’ll call back tomorrow then.” Also, ask them if they think it’s OK for the President to break the law, and would they please put that in writing and send it to you. Offer to send a self-addressed stamped envelope.

You can get contact info for your Senator here. As always, be polite to the poor schlub who has to answer the phone, but make sure your point is clear. If your Senator has a local office, call them, too.

Feingold is sticking his neck out. He needs to be encouraged, just as the DINO’s need to be spanked.