Just saw Senator Russ Feingold on Meet the Press and support his efforts to censure this president and this administration. Wisconsin is fortunate to have such an outspoken and determined senator. The rest of us need to encourage our senators and representatives to support censure (since so few are willing to pursue impeachment).
This has the same relationship to politics that Sheryl Crow's plan to use only one square of toilet paper has to science. That is, not much. It's bloviation and grandstanding, intended only to impress the ignorant.
There is
no mechanism by which congress can censure a member of another branch of government. And properly so. If, say, the House really feels that it
must censure someone to make the week complete, it could censure William Jefferson (D, La) for being clumsy enough to let himself be filmed putting sacks of bribery money in his car. That would be a proper use of censureship.
Congress can censure congressmen. It can censure nobody else. The
only hold congress has over the other branches of government is impeachment. Period. Talk to the contrary is, at best, mere whistling past the graveyard, and at worst, an attempted con of the electorate.
And in this case, there isn't the slightest shred of a ghost of a chance of impeaching the president, and I doubt that even Barbara Boxer is so stupid as to think that there is. When they make noises to the contrary, they're just talking big for the cameras, and relying on the fact that so many Americans don't know any better.
If you let a congressman fool you into thinking that his endless wheedling on TV is some great accomplishment, you have only yourself to blame.