Sen. Russ Feingold didn’t get to be chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Constitution on his good looks. His familiarity with the backbone of the laws the United States, as well as – and keep in mind, we use this word sparingly where politicians are concerned – his integrity have led the lawmaker to inform the enormously popular President Barack Obama that he will be holding hearings on his proposed “prolonged” or “preventative detention” policy.
The Wisconsin Democrat maintains the practice of denying enemy combatants basic legal provisions and trials was just as unconstitutional when the Bush administration was doing it, so unless the winged unicorn of change Obama flew into D.C. on transformed the writ of the document with a blink of its long, lustrous eyelashes while Aretha was confusing millions with her gargantuan bow at the inauguration ceremony, the American dream still shouldn’t be a Kafkaesque nightmare.
Russ Feingold is the most prominent Liberal to date to stand up against Cowboybama, the trigger-happy, Bush-lite part of the POTUS that was nurtured to an unhealthy degree during 2007-2008’s near-endless campaign season, much to his political advantage. According to off-the-record sources within the White House, Cowboybama resisted being shut out of the decision-making process after election day, and has been battling for total dominance of Obama’s brain ever since. If Feingold can knock the 10-gallon hat of his head, even briefly, he will be doing both Barack and America a great service.
