Blue Herald
22
May
Feingold: Political Comfort Won Out Over Real Action
by QuestionGirl • 4:27 pm

Oh how I wish this guy could run for President and win. They’re worried about political comfort while our kids blood continues to spill. Makes me sick.

One of the Democrats leading anti-war voices accused his party of abandoning its priorities and ignoring the will of the American people in preparing to send the president a bill that would fund the Iraq war without requiring any consequences for a continued lack of progress there.

“I cannot support a bill that contains nothing more than toothless benchmarks and that allows the President to continue what may be the greatest foreign policy blunder in our nation’s history,” Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisc., said in a statement released Tuesday. “There has been a lot of tough talk from members of Congress about wanting to end this war, but it looks like the desire for political comfort won out over real action.”

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