rushfiengold

Subject: USA 'Patriot' Act- do you still hate Russ Feingold?

Hey, BC,

Now that there is proof that the USA 'Patriot' Act included the possibility to check out
bookstore records and stuff without people knowing, I was just wondering...

Do you still hate Russ Feingold?

I'm just asking. I mean, I've been looking thorough back issues, and it seems that you
really hate my Senator. I have to admit, when I first realized that it's his fault Ashcroft
is Attorney General, I was pretty pissed. I even vowed to campaign for WHOEVER
RUNS AGAINST HIM in the Democratic primary.

Then came the USA 'Patriot' Act. And my wayward senator, Russ Feingold, finally did
something that I consider totally redeeming. He was the only person in the United States
Senate to vote against this fascist bill. That takes courage. That takes guts.
I mean, he was the only one. In the whole senate.

So, I was wondering... Are you willing to forgive and forget (or at least, forgive) like I am?
Or are you still going to call my senator 'Rush' Feingold?

Jenn B.

PS- he also had two staffers get anthrax poisoning or something.
I think that means that the Repugs consider him a threat.

Jenn,
I don't hate Feingold, never did. I just think it would be really nice if things were different
and I didn't have to spent so much time fruitlessly urging my team to get on the damn field and play.

If I found myself alone in a room with your senator, I'd ask him why he prolonged
that impeachment horseshit so he could take "another look," at the evidence.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, (one day I'll have a staff to ask about things like this) ANY senator
can stop ANY bill from becoming law or ANY confirmation from going thru.

That means your brave senator could've stopped Ashcroft.
That means your brave senator could've stopped Gale Norton.
That means your brave senator could've stopped Ted Olson.
That means your brave senator could've stopped Smirky's deficit-causing tax cut for the super-rich.
That means your brave senator could've stopped the Patriot Act if he wanted to,
instead of casting a meaningless "appearances only" vote against it.

Remember when Clinton tried to appoint that gay guy as ambassador to somewhere?
Oklahoma's premier embarrassment, Senator Jim Inhofe (R- Pissquik) said "Not gonna happen."
That's all Inhofe had to do.
All he had to was speak that one sentence and the nomination was dead, dead, dead.

"Not gonna happen"

THAT'S how you play hardball in Washington.
Meanwhile, our team is wearing pink tutus and playing Barbies...
That makes me sick.

I'm a senate democrat

If Feingold wants to claim he's a man of conscience, tell him I said it's time
to stand up and say, "Not gonna happen, Mr. President."

Pretty soon, Bush will be nominating right-wing, minority-hating tobacco whores to the Supreme Court.
We'll see if Feingold, or ANY Democrat, redeems himself.