Progressive Leader Feingold Split Over Clinton, Obama

[catgirl]

Source: Huffington Post

Sen. Russ Feingold has a plan. Getting ready to head back to Washington as Congress is about to resume, the Democratic senator from Wisconsin has compiled a list of his top five domestic agenda items for 2008: a health care proposal, changes to the No Child Left Behind Act, improving public financing of presidential campaigns, strengthening the Clean Water Act and giving the president line-item veto powers....

...I did notice that as the primaries heated up, all of a sudden, all the presidential candidates -- none of whom voted with me on the timeframe to withdraw from Iraq -- all voted with me and when we did the Patriot Act stuff.

The one that is the most problematic is (John) Edwards, who voted for the Patriot Act, campaigns against it. Voted for No Child Left Behind, campaigns against it. Voted for the China trade deal, campaigns against it. Voted for the Iraq war ... He uses my voting record exactly as his platform, even though he had the opposite voting record.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/18/progressive-leader-feingo_n_82137.html

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Thanks for speaking out Russ! This took a lot of guts.

[derby378]

1. I still wish Russ Feingold was running for President in 2008...

Hope he'll keep 2012 as an option, though.

[wuushew]

2. Line item veto will never get passed in this election year

I never recall President Dole using the 1996 veto.

[Demeter]

3. Then Feingold Should Go With Edwards

and be his conscience.

[redqueen]

5. You would think.

Alas... *sigh*

[uberblonde]

4. You know what?

It's my impression that most first-term Senators are relatively conservative. They're getting their sea legs and if they haven't had prior legislative experience, they're largely dependent on their more experienced staff members and whoever else has offered to mentor them.

I can't see holding these things against Edwards. Clearly, he's had an evolution in his thinking, just as Al Gore has.

[redqueen]

6. Good point.

[catgirl]

7. Just as Gore has?

Gore has always been a champion to the environment. Gore has always
been sincere-big difference. Edwards is not in the same category as Gore,
never will be.

[Myrina]

8. Not LBN -

This came out last week.

And I'm really disappointed that my Senator has drank the Kool Aid.

Sigh. :(