Senator Eamon D'VeLooGAR Wrote:
Of course, there's 8 months for them to blow it with stuff like "Censuring" Bush.
Here's a quick political lesson, dolts:
"Now, the party's Left apparently believes it's time to switch back to type and bolster Bush's national-security credentials by demonstrating the Democrats' own lack of seriousness in the War on Terror.
"The Feingold proposal is a disaster on all levels for the Democrats, but it is a boon to the Wisconsin senator, thus capturing the current Democratic political dilemma in microcosm. The left-wing netroots are rallying to Feingold's proposal, and posting the phone numbers of Democratic senators, so Bush haters everywhere can call to urge them to vote for the Feingold's censure resolution. These bloggers and their readers are a key part of Feingold's constituency for a run for the 2008 presidential nomination from the left. Anything Feingold does to please them helps himself, even if it is irrational and harmful to his party's interests. . . . The resolution will surely strike most Americans as mindless partisanship."
Mindless partisanship from ('most) anyone else, yes. If Pelosi was introducing this, or Conyers (even he, yes), say, your crit would apply, LooG. But as it stands, Feingold's been pretty firm on principle -- check the record during the run-up to/events of impeachment proceedings in the Senate -- and is a known reformer -- McCain-Feingold -- so for him to do this, while it's personally a good move to stroke his potential primary base, it's also not mere grandstanding.
Basically, it comes down to Feingold is the real outsider on the M-F law's name.... McCain plays the outsider to lull us into submission, but what's he doing now, toward Bush, and after Bush (surrogates) basically called McCain a "race-polluting, serially adulterous, molly-coddler of the dark side (by which I mean, his wife's and his Bangladeshi daughter, as well the Dems/progressives (see: McCain-Feingold))" during the SC primary in '00? He's sucking the teat that feeds.... Plus, McCain's ties to Abramoff, from back in the day -- like, five years ago -- aren't for nothing.