What Russ Feingold Said:

[Hope And Change]

"Having a Democratic president and particularly Barack Obama should allow us to change this mistake. Barack Obama believes in the Constitution. He's a constitutional scholar. I believe that he will have a better chance to look at these powers that have been given to the executive branch and even though that he will be running the executive branch, I think he will understand and help take the lead in fixing some of the worst provisions. So this is a huge setback and it would have been much better for Democrats to stand together and not let it happen in the first place ‘cause it's much harder to change it after the fact. But I do believe that Barack Obama is well positioned both in terms of his knowledge and his background, and his beliefs, to correct this. And so I do think that people have a right to be disappointed but I also think they have the right to hope for change on this issue in particular starting in January."


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http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. sorry if the word should is way too much of a qualifier for me

that should worry people

Oh never mind

GO TEAM

[calimary]

2. I just hope they find their spinal columns sometime soon.

If I have to wait til January, well, okay I guess.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6479824

[atreides1]

3. Nice words

should

hope

believe

But as my 1st Sergeant used to say: Wish in one hand and s**t in the other and see which one fills up first.

[Kermitt Gribble]

4. Let's hope, Russ.

We won't forget this come January. FISA, the Military Commissions Act, and the Patriot Act all need to be corrected.

[Breeze54]

5. "This is a terrible piece of legislation. It's one of the greatest assaults on the Constitution, "

"The legislation is a "catastrophe," Feingold lamented, and it "needs to be fixed at some point."

"This is a sad moment," he said. "It really is a black mark, not only on the Democrats, but on the
Congress and really the history of our country.

And the same thing, Rachel, happened with regard to the PATRIOT Act, when we tried to fix it after it had been
passed in a flawed way. There was this period of strength where Democrats held firm, and then they collapsed;
and the same thing happened again here.

This administration, despite its weakness, somehow is able to raise the specter of being, as they say, 'soft on terrorism,'
and unfortunately, Democrats, who can be so strong on domestic issues, somehow collapse.

And that's exactly what happened. This is a terrible piece of legislation. It's one of the greatest assaults on the Constitution, I think, in the history of our country. We are going to have to fix it, but it is a dark hour for the Constitution."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Feingoldon_on_FISA_A_dark_hour_0709.html

[chill_wind]

8. But don't worry. Dems will fix it a few years from now....

just like the way we were going to drain the swamp in 2006. Right? Right.

[chill_wind]

6. At least Feingold has been consistent.

Emphatically promising to support a filibuster on a bad bill and encouraging others do do just that--- in December-- and then turning around to vote for Cloture on a bad bill in July........is anything but.

[blondeatlast]

7. Feingold has the goal in mind. He was PERFECT on "Countdown" last night.

He realizes you can't take the politics out of politics, no matter how much we'd like to.