I don't want to fawn over Feingold; he's just a pol, after all; but he's showing once again why he's the best Senator there is, with apologies to Sanders, Brown, Kennedy, and Reed.
In an interview with Cenk Uygur, Feingold can't sconceal his anger over the FISA capitulation--uh, sorry, I mean pragmatism. But his anger is tempered by hope for what might happen when Democrats have more power. But his hope is tempered by concern over what might happen when Democrats have more power.
I'm hoping that we have a very good election result in the House and the Senate, and elect President Obama. And then I think the excuses will all be over. I think that people will realize either we're going to be Democrats or we're not. So I am hopeful that people will no longer be intimidated. But I worry a great deal. Because I thought that was the message of the 2006 election and the performance when it comes to the areas of Iraq, and civil liberties in the constitution have not been good, and I really do regret it.
Here's another nice bit of the interview, in which Kit Bond does a jig.
the idea that this is somehow a compromise, where we got a few things and they got a few things is just false. Senator Kit Bond is one of our worst opponents on this, is basically doing a jig. He's so happy, bragging that the White House is shocked at how it got everything it wanted...
RTWT.