Feingold tells it like it is

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Published on Friday, February 2, 2007 by TomPaine.com
How To End The War
by Russ Feingold

Our founders wisely kept the power to fund a war separate from the power to conduct a war. In their brilliant design of our system of government, Congress got the power of the purse, and the president got the power of
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As the hearing I chaired in the Senate Judiciary Committee made clear, this legislation is fully consistent with the Constitution of the United States. Since the president is adamant about pursuing his failed policies in Iraq, Congress has the duty to stand up and use its constitutional power to stop him. If Congress doesn’t stop this war, it’s not because it doesn’t have the power. It’s because it doesn’t have the will.

Russ Feingold is a United States senator from Wisconsin.

What has triangulation ever done to hurt him? Doesn't he realize that taking forthright positions is dangerous?

Sheesh! Russ, unless you equivocate, you'll never, ever get accepted into the DLC!

Come on Russ... get with the program. Support the wars you're against! Support the president you're against! Build a palace while you dedicate yourself to the poor, just like Gandhi and Mother Theresa would have if they could have!