Feingold's Folly Flounders Following Friends' Flight
Judge Feingold appears to have laid an egg, and he's none too happy with his Dem cohorts:
"I'm concerned about the approach Democrats are taking, which is too often cowering," he said.
Uh... We've been telling you that for a while, Russ. And he's 100% right on the next point:
"I'm amazed at Democrats ... cowering with this president's numbers so low," Feingold said.
I'm surspised, too. After all, kicking this president when he's down has been their stock in trade. I guess their gratuitous political posturing at the expense of the American people has garnered enough negative attention that they're thinking twice about the level of disingenuousity they publicly display.
But the Dem's real cowering this week is from the media:
Next in the Senate TV gallery came Schumer. An aide hung up a poster showing a port. The senator called the ports situation "extremely troubling." The aide hung up a poster of an Exxon cartoon. "Obscene profits," decreed Schumer, equally passionately.
CNN's Henry asked the Feingold question. Schumer ended the news conference.
And all of this begs the question of the week: How many Democrats does it take to make Sen. Feingold look foolish?
Comments
Interesting how you completely ignore the underlying issue: whether George W. Bush has violated the constitution. I'd say he's shredded it, and Feingold has the Dems' number exactly right: they're cowering before the Unitary Executive.
But go ahead and make your arch little digs. If you've got smaller fish to fry, I'm not going to interfere.
If you're interested, however, my take is at http://www.dailykos.com/user/cwhig .
Posted by: cwhig | March 15, 2006 6:56 PM
cwhig, there is a lot of debate on that, in fact the constitutional scholars who testified before his committee were divided on whether Art. II of the Constition would give him that authortity.
As Russ pointed out in his speech, we have a separation of powers for a reason. If he feels that what Bush did is illegal, that is something for a court to figure out, it's their part of the job. But Russ seems to have declared himself the judge and jury here.
Posted by: Crazy Politico | March 15, 2006 10:22 PM
cwhig,
I'm sorry I didn't catch your comment earlier (evenings are for family around here). I did visit your diary and plan an expanded reply in a new post. I'll try to get it done in the AM, as I'm too tired to do it justice right now.
Thanks for the comment!
Posted by: LB | March 15, 2006 10:53 PM