The REAL Maverick: Russ Feingold

Interesting stuff — glad to see someone doesn't see McCain as the real maverick.

http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?&id=content_4549

Would you like to see him impeached?

I have to think about whether that’s good for the country. He’s probably committed an impeachable offense. But the Constitution does not require, just because somebody has committed an impeachable offense, that you actually impeach him. That’s why censure is a good way to have accountability but not actually remove the president from office. You know, I was the only Democratic senator to vote to hear the evidence they wanted to dismiss against Clinton. I thought it was our role to do it. I wrote an opinion—all of us had to write an opinion—and in the last couple of paragraphs, I said, “Look, I majored in history, and I knew that the only impeachment had been Andrew Johnson.” And I said, “I’ve only been conscious of this stuff for twenty-five to thirty years—and I’ve already seen two: Nixon and Clinton. I really worry that people are gonna start seeing impeachment as a regular way to do business.” Problem is, George Bush has committed a more clearly impeachable offense than Clinton or even Nixon ever did.

Worse than Nixon?

Probably.

Read the entire interview! It's great.

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"A brief recap: He was the only U.S. senator to vote against the Patriot Act. The only one with the guts to raise the notion of impeachment. One of the very few to have a consistent record against the war in Iraq."

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Question: "You don’t take pay raises on principle, right?

Russ: "I only take a pay raise when I’m reelected. So for six years, if there’s any pay raises, I write a check every two weeks to the federal treasury. It has cost me, hmm, about 60,000 bucks."

http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?&id=content_4549

Feingold is the real deal with the backbone to back it up!


Please K&R.

kick for Russ (in a good way)

I'll support for President but . . . I have to pick a nit here. Nixon was not impeached -- he was "encouraged" to resign before the Senate could bring up charges against him. OK, OK, I'm done.