Russ Feingold’s censure resolution is going to be debated in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

There’s been an ongoing debate in the blogosphere about the effects of the resolution.  Right Blogsylvania claims it will help Republicans by rallying their base.  Left Blogistan claims that the Republicans are scared.

It looks to me like the Republicans are trying to split the difference.   They aren’t squelching the debate, so maybe they think it will help with the more committed members of their base.  However, they did release the news as a one-sentence statement on a Friday evening and are holding the hearings on a Friday as well.  Getting bad news out on Friday afternoons is a traditional way of mitigating the impact since fewer people follow the news on weekends.

Will this be the scandal that finally sticks, so we can start to recover from our permanent Constitutional crisis?  Or will it disappear like torture and rendition and suspending habeas corpus and ignoring the Geneva Conventions and lying about Iraq’s weapons and outing CIA agents and setting up secret prisons and I had better stop this list if I want a blog entry and not a research paper.

Make your bets now and take a look at Glenn Greenwald once a day for ongoing developments.

Pete DeWan