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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Feingold censure

So it's the big story in the last few days, and I must say that while I think it was a good idea, I really wish that Russ Feingold had built up support for his idea before he suggested it. I'm not sure if he tried to and failed or if he thought that Democrats would be quick to jump on board in condemning illegal activity, but this was a bug misstep on an issue that could have done the party and the country a lot of good.