According to an article in Sunday' s Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, bylined by Craig Gilbert, Russ Feingold says that he will support a filibuster of the vote on Samuel Alito for Supreme Court Justice, even though he said Friday in Milwaukee that he did not expect the filibuster to succeed.
So, in other words, Russ is willing to waste taxpayer dollars in an incredibly divisive politically-motivated tactic. He is willing to filibuster an eminently qualified candidate for the Supreme Court--not on fitness--but on purely speculative ideological grounds.
Do the Democrats honestly believe that the American people are not paying attention here? The bottom line is that George Bush won the last election. One of the reasons people voted for him was because of the upcoming vacancies on the Supreme Court.
Since the Democrats have been unable to defeat Bush at the polls (despite him being an idiot, a warmonger, a liar, a toady of Dick Cheney and the puppet of Karl Rove), they have decided that they will try to force the will of the minority on the rest of us through protracted obstructionism.
I have a few words for them, "Get over it. You lost. Get on with it."
They seem to have forgotten all about Ruth Bader Ginsburg (a former attorney for the ACLU--for heaven's sake), who held such mainstream political views as a constitutional right to prostitution and support for co-ed prisons, who was passed through the Senate by a vote of 97-3.
I resent Feingold, who was elected to represent all the people of Wisconsin, ignoring a large part of his constituency in order to further his own personal political career (which is an additional thing not likely to succeed, but that is a blog of another day).
I resent his willingness to smear a good and qualified man for the sake of making a political statement. (What happened to all of the liberal rage about 'smearing' that arose during the ridiculous Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson debacle?)
I resent his complete disregard for the judicial nomination process to get his name into a few headlines.
I think that Feingold would be wise to think long and hard before going down the filibuster trail. We have heard him accuse the Bush administration of being a 'culture of corruption'. Well, what is more corrupt than wasting taxpayer time and money on a futile filibuster of a qualified SCOTUS candidate? To me, that is just the same as out-and-out stealing of taxpayer money.
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Plame stole our moneyfor 20 yeras and now has a pension:
January 30, 2006
Iraq is Most Damaging Issue for Bush in U.S.
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(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Many adults in the United States believe the coalition effort has been one of the major problems for the administration headed by George W. Bush, according to a poll by Harris Interactive. 63 per cent of respondents think the war in Iraq has been very or somewhat damaging for the federal government.
The responses to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are next on the list with 57 per cent, followed by the revelation that the U.S. president authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens, the indictment if congressman Tom Delay, the leaks of Valerie Plame’s name and the indictment of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and the investigation into deputy chief of staff Karl Rove.
The coalition effort against Saddam Hussein’s regime was launched in March 2003. At least 2,238 American soldiers have died during the military operation, and more than 16,500 troops have been injured.
Bush will deliver his State of the Union address tomorrow. In a survey by Gallup released by CNN and USA Today, 52 per cent of respondents believe the current presidency has been a failure, while 46 per cent deem it a success.
In a poll conducted in January 2002, more than 80 per cent of respondents had a positive assessment of Bush’s tenure at the White House.
Polling Data
a) How damaging do you think each of these issues were to the president and his administration in 2005?
(Percentage saying "Very Damaging" or "Damaging")
The war in Iraq
63%
The responses to Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita
57%
The recent revelation that the
president authorized the NSA
to bypass courts to eavesdrop
on U.S. citizens
53%
The indictment of congressman
Tom Delay
42%
The leaks of Valerie Plame’s
name and the indictment of
Lewis "Scooter" Libby
40%
The investigation into deputy
chief of staff Karl Rove
40%
Source: Harris Interactive
Methodology: Online interviews with 1,518 American adults, conducted from Jan. 12 to Jan. 17, 2006. Margin of error is 3 per cent.
b) Since the start of 2001 when George W. Bush became president, in general, would you say his presidency has been a success or failure?
Jan. 2006
Aug. 2005
Jan. 2002
Success
46%
47%
83%
Failure
52%
51%
11%
Too soon to tell
--
--
3%
No opinion
2%
2%
3%
Source: Gallup / CNN / USA Today
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,006 American adults, conducted from Jan. 20 to Jan. 22, 2006. Margin of error is 3 per cent.
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