According to John Nichols, Republicans are trying to protect Bush from a lawsuit by preventing a senator from joining it.
 The Senate Ethics Committee has denied US Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wi., permission to join a lawsuit that asks the federal courts to clarify whether it was appropriate for President Bush to unilaterally end participation by the United States in the thirty-year-old Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. 
Did this make the mainstream news anywhere? And when are we going to have a serious challenge to this supposed "war" that has not been declared as such by anyone but Bush and Co.? Just a question...
Oh, and speaking of Bush the Treaty-Breaker, what about Kyoto? If Bush's withdrawal from the climate treaty wasn't unconstitutional, it was certainly tragic, horrible, unethical, and shortsighted. According to Michael Gelobter at Alternet:
Had the U.S. respected our commitment to action on this critical issue, recent studies, including our own, have shown that the net cost to American fossil fuel industries could have been more than $45 billion a year. By contrast, estimates of the benefits of good climate policy to the economy as a whole range as high as $120 billion a year by 2020. While our economy took the hit, the energy industry walked away from the President's policy with its biggest payday ever.
And that's on top of the more serious consequences of Bush's action, which basically involve a much more rapid deterioration of the environment than we would otherwise have had. Not only are the most wealthy elites in the world calling all the shots and getting rich off the suffering of everyone else, they're destroying the world we live in while they're at it. So why do they call themselves "conservatives"?
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