What I'd love to see Russ Feingold do next - run for governor of Wisconsin

I suspect that in a few years Wisconsin is going to be tired of this teaparty numbskull. I think Russ would be perfect to help turn around the state for a brighter future!

Geez, we need to get rid of these teabagging nut jobs. They will ruin the country

Do you have any links? I see there have been grumblings about recall since December, but I wonder is there anything happening that's more definitive?

Recall cannot happen until one year in office, per Wisconsin law (but of course preparation can begin yesterday). And let's not kid ourselves, it won't be easy. First, gather half a million signatures within a 60-day period, find an attractive candidate to run against Walker in the recall election (and I think it would be best to settle on one candidate rather than have a free-for-all like in California), and then make sure during the few weeks leading up to the election that our side gets enough voters out to counteract the people who will still love Walker no matter what.

Don't get me wrong--I was researching recall on November 3. I'll be there doing everything I can. But this is a major undertaking, and we have to get it right, because we get only one try at recall per term (Wisconsin law).

party.

Democracy can't work without a dynamic dialectic between opposing philosophies. The inertia from the DLC is still pushing the Democrats in a pro-corporate direction and considering the needs of politicians, the Citizens United decision is going to keep things headed toward the interests of corporate donors.

My hope is that Progressives United would get bigger than just an opposition to unfettered corporate donations. I would hope that it would cause the course of the Democratic Party to change, or to help grow the "viable" alternative that is missing. You know, the absence that enabled Rahm Emmanuel to gleefully exploit the lefties because they have no where else to go.

We need people in Washington who are not bought and paid for by the forces of corporate greed. The corporations and their flunkies don't want the working man or woman to have any rights or protection that the unions fought for, for three generations. Democracy is the worst nightmare for the manipulative people with the big money and political power for sale.

A labor party is exactly what the country needs. Trouble is the corporations nonstop PR campaigns have been belching fourth anti-labor bullshit for so long now, that joe sixpack has forgotten about the truth and has swallowed the union bashing propaganda, hook line and sinker.

No, unions are not perfect, but then, what is?

Russ was the only one who was right about a lot of things.

I don't agree with Feingold on everything, but how nice it would be to have a real progressive in office.

Obama is too big a coward.

Edit. Russ was one of the few people in Washington that I REALLY trusted. The people with the big money went after him because they couldn't stand the way he stood up to them and stood up for you and me.

Even when it meant voting against the party.

Hopefully he will have an interest.

and elect Russ