Democrats Beat Quick Retreat on Call to Censure President - New York Times

This really doesn't come as a shock, but it sure was fast. Everyone ran for cover just as expected. When oh when will the Democrats begin to stand on the law and principle? Well, Feingold and Reid gained in my poll on this issue alone.
Democrats Beat Quick Retreat on Call to Censure President - New York Times:

By CARL HULSE
Published: March 14, 2006

WASHINGTON, March 13 — Senate Democrats on Monday blocked an immediate vote on a call by one of their own to censure President Bush for his eavesdropping program.

They acted after Republicans said they were eager to pass judgment on a proposal that they portrayed as baseless and disruptive to the antiterror effort.

Minutes before Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, formally introduced his resolution reprimanding Mr. Bush, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, said Republicans were ready to vote by day's end or Tuesday.

"When we're talking about censure of the president of the United States at a time of war, when this president is out defending the American people with a very good, lawful, constitutional program, it is serious business," Mr. Frist said. "If they want to make an issue out of it, we're willing to do just that."

Democrats, while distancing themselves from Mr. Feingold's assertion that the president "plainly broke the law" in approving surveillance without warrants, said his proposal merited more consideration than a hasty vote.