Not only are they desperate,

[ProSense]

they are disingenuous wimps. The attacks are becoming more desperate, it's becoming silly.

Is this motion a calculated political move by Feingold? Of course. But it's completely risk-free for him. Even if no other senator signs on, it makes Bush and Senate Republicans look bad, and it separates Feingold from other Senate Democrats, as did his attempted filibuster on PATRIOT. Feingold wants to be elected President in 2008, and to that end he is not only attracting publicity and gaining free media and name recognition, but he is doing something that John Kerry and Al Gore (to pick two random names) did not bother to do before their presidential runs: showing that he can lead, that he will take risky and potentially unpopular actions in service of something he believes is right.

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=20485

So for eight years Al Gore was VP, ran for president, won the election, but failed to show he can lead?

[Dr Ron]

1. Following the Dean route

If the entire country turns on Bush and the war, Feingold comes out the hero.

More realisticly, the majority of the country will see him as too far left (even if correct) and he will wind up as Dean did in the primaries.

One more analogy. Both Dean and Feingold are much better men than their supporters. Hopefully this type won't divide the party over these issues (as we were divided over the IWR) when we all really agree on the real underlying issues.

[ProSense]

4. No one has

yet to acknowledge that unless seven Republicans vote with this, Bush isn't censured. You know what would have really been impressive? In addition to lining up Democrats, work on the one Independent member and a couple of the so-called moderate Republicans. Then we'd be calling Republicans to support a real opportunity to censure.

[sandnsea]

2. Kerry led normalization with Vietnam

I don't think there was anything riskier than that in the last 20 years. I really don't know why they think trashing our Presidential candidates helps us. Dean's flaming descent should have proven that to these idiots.

[MH1]

3. Email that $^%&# (Geov Parrish)

He can be reached by email at [e-mail] -- please indicate whether your comments may be used on WorkingForChange in an upcoming "letters" column.

So, I guess my pending phone company switch will be to EarthTones and not Working Assets.