>the 19 Democrats (not including Senator Feingold) who voted for the Alito filibuster.

Of course, Feingold voted for Roberts. And for Ashcroft. And for welfare "reform".

When asked who was France's greatest writer, Andre Gide replied, "Victor Hugo, alas!" Who is our best presidential candidate? Russ Feingold - alas.

We are always complaining that the democrats in office are weak. Agreed, they are. So we should give them strength. They're afraid of Republican backlash? Let's tell the republican smear machine we will not be swiftboated again.

Glenn Greenwald is working with the Judiciary Committee staffers in DC and he says the Democrats already show signs of intimidation.

Write your Senator, your newspaper, your TV network, the White House NOW. The swift-boating has got to stop and we are the ones who have to stop it.

Use these words from Glenn's post: Intimidating and threatening the people who expose wrongdoing and illegality are the hallmarks of street gangs and military juntas. The idea that anything meaningful was disclosed when we learned that our Government is eavesdropping without judicial oversight and approval has always been frivolous on its face. But the statement from Cheney that this disclosure caused ''enormous" damage to our national security" is dishonest trash, transparently intended -- on the eve of the NSA hearings -- to stir up populist rage against anyone who blows the whistle on misconduct by the Administration and to intimidate other potential whistle-blowers with threats of criminal prosecution and treason accusations from the highest levels of our government. We need aggressive and meaningful questioning from Senators from both parties who understand that one of their most central constitutional duties is to serve as a check on excesses by the Executive Branch. It was the Senate which was continuously deceived about eavesdropping by the Administration, humiliated into believing that the laws they passed were actually being obeyed rather than ignored, and now face a President who literally claims the right to take action without what he calls "interference" from the Congress.

The FBI refuted the government's claim that these taps were useful. They gnerated to no leads that the FBI didn't already have.

They could not have stopped 9/11. Those phone calls were recorded but they weren't translated until 9/12. That's in the public record.

Let the senator deal with facts. Let US deal with the bullying.

I love Feingold! I watched the Gonzalez hearings and wanted to stand up and cheer for Russ! It is nice to see the dems standing up and speaking out! I just hope it continues!! We need to do everything in our power to keep the word out there as we head into the 06 elections!
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