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...congressional leaders and Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, the party doesn't have one strong defining leader. And while Democrats may agree broadly, there are still major differences on tactics, such as the proposal to censure Bush over his warrantless spying program offered by Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold. That idea won little support among his fellow Democrats. "I don't think it's a lack of ideas; it's coherence," says Paul Begala, the veteran Democratic strategist. The anti-war left is so mad at Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, for instance, that they're running a primary campaign...
...would the bills affect lobbying on Capitol Hill? The Senate bill, claims cosponsor Christopher Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, would effectively put a NOT FOR SALE sign in front of the Capitol. But it is so weak that some reformers--including Republican John McCain and Democrat Russell Feingold--voted no. Both bills, says Fred Wertheimer, head of the nonpartisan Democracy 21 watchdog group, "leave lobbyists free to function in Congress exactly the way they have been functioning...
...Three months after the New York Times broke the story outlining the program, it now appears that Democrats aren't unhappy about what Bush did; they just don't like the way he did it. Even Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold, who proposed to censure the President for his handling of the matter - and generated some unhappiness in his own party for doing so - has so far stopped short of saying the program should be eliminated...
...More subtle campaigning is being done by other Senators. In early 2004, the non-partisan Washington magazine National Journal found Indiana's Evan Bayh to be notably more conservative than other Democratic Presidential hopefuls, with a 62 liberal rating, compared with 80 for Feingold, 81 for Hillary Clinton and 86 for John Kerry. But in the last year and half, as he has courted fundraisers around the country for a possible presidential bid, he?s changed his voting pattern a bit. He joined with only 12 of his colleagues (nearly all among the most liberal members of the Senate...
...recently been attacking the growth of spending in Washington, but as the Majority 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...