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Frist: Feingold Censure Talk 'Dead Wrong'
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist tore into his Senate colleague, Russ Feingold, on Sunday, saying the Wisconsin Democrat's plan to introduce a resolution of censure against President Bush in a time of war would give aid and comfort to America's enemies. "Russ is just wrong. He is flat wrong. He is dead wrong," Frist fumed on ABC's "This Week," minutes after Feingold announced his censure plan on the same show. The top Republican complained: "As I was listening to it, I was hoping deep inside that the leadership in Iran and other people who really have the U.S. not in their best interests, were not listening because of the terrible, terrible signal it sends." Asked if he thought Feingold's censure resolution "actually weakened America abroad," Frist told "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos, "Yes. "We are right now in a war, in an unprecedented war - where we do have people who really want to take us down . . . So the signal that is sends, that there is in any way a lack of support for our Commander-in-Chief, who is leading us with a bold vision in a way that we know is making our homeland safer, is wrong."
Story Continues Below The Tennessee Republican warned that Feingold's resolution will prompt "leadership around the world of our sworn enemies to say, 'Well, now we have a little crack there.'" Editor's note:
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