Two days ago I wrote about Governor Elliot Spitzers lawsuit against the Bush administration for vetoing the expanded SCHIP program. I reminded you that it was well within the Presidents Constitutional powers to veto any legislation presented to him, and no judge has the power to overturn a Presidential veto (somehow I am not surprised that a Democratic Governor is unaware of this). We no have another lawmaker who does not quite have a grasp on the law/Ken Salazar said on Wednesday he would like to censure Rush Limbaugh:

U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., was among 41 senators who signed a letter condemning radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, and Salazar said Wednesday he would vote for a resolution censuring Limbaugh for “going beyond whatever rights he had to attack soldiers.”

I was all set to write a reply to Ken Salazars ignorance, but as it turns out Rush has already done it (and much more eloquently than I would have I am sure):

Ken Salazar, a senator from Colorado, wants to censure me? This guy, he might be smarter than we think. Now, I don’t know if he knows the Constitution. When is the last time, Senator Salazar, that you read the Constitution? You have no power to censure me or any other private citizen. Do you realize what a fool you sound like when you want to censure me? You’d have to make me a senator to censure me, and you might want to do that because then I couldn’t do the radio show. I’d have to take a pay cut, give up the radio show, and then become a senator. But if you did that, I would tilt the majority to the Republicans in the Senate. That’s the only way you can censure me. You can’t censure private citizens, even though you’re talking about doing it. But I do have an idea.

Senator, I will censure you. I will censure you for repeating lies about a private citizen! (laughing) I will censure you for being ignorant about the Constitution. You should be censured for being a fool. If we’re going to start censuring people, let’s start censuring John Kerry, and Jack Murtha, and Dick Durbin, and Harry Reid. These are the people talking down the troops. Let’s censure them! You guys need to focus on your own House there and your own Senate rather than focusing on me. Anyway, I was just wondering this morning if they might be feeling as though they’ve opened up a Pandora’s Box, because everybody now knows the background of Media Matters. Everybody knows that Hillary Clinton started it; she’s taking credit for starting it and founding it. Media Matters people are very nervous, they’re being asked about it. “Well, no, no, no, she really had nothing to do with it.” So somebody is lying. Media Matters said she wasn’t involved; she said she is. This is no small thing.

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