Washington Post Profile on Russ Feingold

Chris Cillizsa of The Washington Post has post in his political blog on Russ Feingold; here's a few paragraphs (hat tip to Steve Soto of The Left Coaster):

"Cautious" is not a word that comes to mind when writing about Russ Feingold.

Feingold is tired of what he says is Democrats' softness on issues. "[W]e lost because we were perceived as unable to take the tough stands," he says. (Reuters)

The Wisconsin senator was the first member of his party to propose a timeline for withdrawing American troops from Iraq last fall, and when news broke about the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping campaign, Feingold introduced a resolution to censure the president for violating U.S. law.

Political suicide, says the Democratic political establishment. Phooey, responds Feingold.

"I've heard these pundits, they are people that are paid by Democrats, many of them were in the Clinton administration, these are paid political pundits and paid political consultants who make their living coming up [to] the Capitol and telling the Democratic leadership this is a loser," Feingold says. "It is bad advice. It is advice we got in 2002 and 2004. And we lost because we were perceived as unable to take the tough stands that are needed to change the course in the fight against terrorism."

That's Russ Feingold at his finest.

In California, we have seen some fine Democrats take advice from these political consultants and of course we have seen people lose all ability to react like the capable and normal human beings they were before the consultants showed up. Has anyone ever checked the phone bills of these consultants to see if they're talking to Karl Rove? Anyway, it's nice to see that Russ Feingold knows who he is. We'll see how far he gets in the primaries in 2008.