he actually makes me warm a little to Arlen Specter:

From the Providence Journal:

Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee, who cast a protest vote against President Bush’s reelection in 2004, says he won’t rule out support for what he calls the “drastic” penalty of a formal Senate censure of Mr. Bush.
Chafee agrees with Sen. Russell D. Feingold that the president acted illegally when he launched an antiterrorism program of warrantless wiretaps of some U.S. citizens, he said Tuesday. But Chafee, a Republican, currently does not support the Wisconsin Democrat’s proposal to punish the president with a censure, he said.
“Everything should occur in steps,” Chafee said in an interview citing, for instance, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on the wiretapping program.
Chafee was asked whether those steps might lead to a censure of Mr. Bush that he would support. “I know you want me to go there,” Chafee said, but he did not answer the question directly.
However, Chafee said he does not rule out an eventual decision to back the censure resolution, introduced Monday. He also welcomed the public argument that Feingold has spurred about the surveillance program. “You just don’t hear it — any outrage, or questioning of it, or even support,” Chafee said, referring to what he considers to be a dearth of debate in Rhode Island about the wiretapping.

And:

Why, Chafee was asked Tuesday, has he come to the conclusion that the program is illegal, with the committee’s inquiry still under way?
Chafee answered by reiterating his initial criticism of the program. “From what I’ve seen,” he said, the wiretap program “is outside the parameters” of the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches and existing law governing such programs.
Chafee also said that he believes Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, another Republican who sometimes votes against his party leadership, is keeping censure of Mr. Bush on the table as an option.
Specter told reporters yesterday that Feingold’s censure resolution will be referred to his committee today and “held over” without any action.
“It’s out of line,” Specter said of the censure resolution, “it’s over the top, it’s out of bounds.”