Will Someone Please Run Against Russ Feingold

Tommy Thompson, Mark Neumann, Tim Michels, somebody please run against Russ!

From the Wisconsin paper of record, the Lakeland-Times. Mr. Moore talks about our spineless senator and how he misspoke , was scolded by the top and how Ted Kennedy's death took the pressure off of Russ's blunder.It's worth going to the entire article to get the point.

PS, If the Green Bay Press, Appleton Post Crescent and the Milwaukee Journal would contract Richard Moore for their papers they would increase readership and revenue in their papers they don't have today!

A good read.

"9/1/2009 8:15:00 AM
Feingold's fiasco, Kennedy's death: What they mean for health care reform
Richard Moore
Investigative Reporter

Surely U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, had no idea that he was about to create an international firestorm when he walked into the Mercer Community Center Aug. 19 and started to mouth off about the current condition of health care reform.



There won't be a vote on reform legislation before Christmas, Feingold told a passionate crowd. Not only that, the senator quipped, there might not be any reform legislation, period." Feingold's fiasco, Kennedy's death: What they mean for health care reform

The senator's words brought applause from the crowd, but the liberal Feingold seemed rather depressed. We're headed in the direction of doing absolutely nothing, he said, and it's unfortunate.

A few days later, Feingold issued a statement retreating from his Mercer remarks. He was just frustrated because of all the public opposition to reform he had encountered, he suggested, and in the days since his Mercer appearance more supporters had shown up and bolstered his spirits.



Here's what almost certainly did happen in those six days: The Democratic congressional leadership (Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi) and the Obama administration gave the senator, as John Lennon might put it, a damn good whacking, and told him to make things right.

And so he issued his "walkback" statement, as weak as it was. In politics a walkback occurs after you have spoken an inconvenient truth that you can't take back, so you walk back to it and try to somehow explain it away.

Then, too, over this past weekend, Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu said she did not support a public option. So it seems like the Russ we heard in Mercer was telling the truth.



As for the public, every poll shows a majority of Americans now opposing Obama's and the Democrats' plan. Even far-left liberals such as Dennis Kucinich recognize the public sentiment, again, just like Feingold did in Mercer.