Assessing the politics of censure

Too many folks are spending too much time worrying about whether it would be good or bad politics for this or that player to support/oppose Sen. Feingold's censure motion. Ad nauseum, until we stand to forget what we were originally talking about: Bush breaking the law.

How about "sometimes a censure motion is just a censure motion"?

How about giving due consideration to (a) Did the President break the law? (b) If so, should he be informed of Congressional (i.e., the people’s) displeasure, if indeed it exists? and (c) Should he be served notice that he’d best not do it again?

If the answer to all three questions is Yes, then certainly censure is the very least that should happen.