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Senator Russ Feingold has always been an unpredictable politician. One of the strongest supporters of campaign finance reform, the Wisconsin Democrat lived up to his principles in 1998, blasting ads that national Democrats were running for him in his state that were paid for by "soft money," the sort of campaign donation that Feingold worked successfully to outlaw a few years later. In 2001, he angered Democrats by supporting John Ashcroft?s nomination for attorney general - and then shocked everyone when he was the only Senator to vote against the Patriot Act in the days following the Sept. 11 attacks...
...Leader of the Senate for the last three years, he?s been a critical player in getting bills like the Medicare prescription drug plan passed, much to the chagrin of fiscal conservatives. And it?s unlikely Feingold will aggressively push his censure proposal in the months ahead, as his Democratic colleagues have already warned him it?s a bad political move for the 2006 congressional elections - which, of course, come before 2008. With these factors in mind, it?s worth remembering prominent governors like Iowa Democrat Tom Vilsack, Virginia Democrat Mark Warner and Massachusetts Republican Mitt Romney, some...
...State Department so far has had mixed success convincing influential outside observers on the merits of the deal. After receiving a briefing on the pact by State Department officials last week, former Sen. Sam Nunn-an influential Democrat on defense issues who now co-chairs the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonproliferation organization-told the Washington Post on Tuesday that if he were still in Congress he'd be "skeptical" of the accord "and looking at conditions that would be attached." On the other hand, the day before former secretary of state Henry Kissinger penned an op-ed article...
...challenge to its existence. Morris Sosnovitch Toronto Surely most Americans can't fail to see the hypocrisy in the U.S. reaction to the election of Hamas as the legitimate Palestinian government. The Bush Administration is always on a soapbox claiming it fights for democracy, but when a free and democratic election process results in the victory of a group the Administration doesn't like, suddenly it is a different story. The U.S. needs to understand that the world doesn't want it as a global policeman and certainly not George W. Bush as global shoot-'em-up sheriff. Victor Marshall...
That's why there are plenty who argue that the blame--and the answer--must lie squarely with fat people themselves. When Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat, attacked junk food in schools two years ago, then Democratic Senator Zell Miller, whose home state of Georgia is the location of Coca-Cola headquarters, scoffed, "Our kids are not obese because of what they are eating in our lunchrooms at school. They are obese, frankly, because they sit around on their duffs watching MTV and playing video games, and to do something about that requires the role of the parents...