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Sen. Russell Feingold said this week he planned to introduce a symbolic resolution censuring President Bush over his “mishandling” of the war in Iraq and for “failing” to properly train and equip U.S. troops. Republicans immediately denounced the move as political grandstanding, and Democratic leaders were wary, too. In 2006, Feingold, a Democrat from Wisconsin, proposed censuring Bush for wiretapping U.S. citizens without having search warrants; he won only four votes. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, dismissed Feingold’s latest gambit, but hardly came to Bush’s defense. The American people already know that Bush is “the worst president we’ve ever had,” Reid said. “We don’t need a censure resolution to prove that.”
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