Huh? Feingold's the careless, reckless one?

[dragonlady]

Gregory Stanford, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (I love his editorials)

President Bush and his people adopt a lunatic theory about preventive war, conjure out of Saddam Hussein's non-existent nuclear arsenal a paranoid vision of an imminent mushroom cloud over an American city, start a real war with make-believe planning (and disastrous consequences), keep giving the war rosy prognoses unhinged from the grim reality and suffer delusions of monarchism in which King George has inalienable rights to torture prisoners and wiretap citizens without court oversight, despite laws to the contrary.

A lone lawmaker has put forth a modest proposal to counter this last excess. Sen. Russ Feingold, the Wisconsin Democrat, has asked his colleagues to censure Bush - that is, to pass a resolution rebuking him for illegally spying on Americans.

Now, guess who's drawn the verbal brickbats, such as "out of line," "overreaching," "irresponsible," "outrageous," "crazy." Amazingly, Feingold has.

Were the administration a car, it would be careening through city streets at high speed, getting into crashes, often fatal, as it went. But the authorities would treat this crazy driving as normal and the sane lawman who wants to issue the motorist a ticket as crazy.

(snip)

Sure, Feingold knows his resolution will get nowhere. But it has stirred up a debate, much of it healthy, in that it points to the dangers of one-party rule, particularly when the ins put party loyalty ahead of the nation's welfare and the outs refuse to fight back.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=409022

[bemildred]

1. Standard fare for domestic politicians that say forbidden things.

Like "firebrand", "militant", "extremist", "radical", "leftist" etc. for foreign leaders (of any political persuasion, mind you) that question US hegemony. With domestic politicians, they are nuts, with foreign ones, they are Commies, and sometimes they are nuts also.

There is no rational argument that Bush ought not to be censured, nay impeached and then tried and locked away, hence the argument must not be allowed to occur.

[spag68]

2. Feingold

is so alone out there with maybe two others, that I think something must be up. I hope that someone in the dem. party has a plan about this. Personally, even though it may be against political thinking, at this time it is more important to me that the dems. stand up for what is so abviously right. If we are to make any advancement in this country to a better way of life, we can't use the reprehensible methods of the repubs. or we wil only be a different version of them. I just can't be a part of that. So listen up at the dnc, it's time to do the right thing.

[depakid]

3. "....the outs refuse to fight back."

Story of the last 6 years....

Haven't seen any indication that it's about to change, either.

[Homer12]

4. Russ has a spinal cord

And a backbone I might add.

The DNC needs to be reborn, Russ can do it.

[freesqueeze]

5. I find that I agree with Rush....

FEINGOLD IS A GIFT!



Since when did telling the truth and holding people accountable for their mistakes become a political liability?
http://www.freesqueeze.com/russfeingold.htm