{"id":2659,"date":"2007-07-18T02:56:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T08:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2017-05-21T02:39:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T08:39:47","slug":"sen-feingold-d-wi-abandons-oath-of-office-crumples-in-spineless-heap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/sen-feingold-d-wi-abandons-oath-of-office-crumples-in-spineless-heap\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Feingold (D-WI) abandons oath of office, crumples in spineless heap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/feingold_headshot.jpg\" > <img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/feingold_headshot.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"feingold_headshot.jpg\" align= \"left\"\/><\/a>Atlantic Free Press<br \/>\nFeingold Turns to Dross<br \/>\nWritten by Dave Lindorff\t   <\/p>\n<p>In a diary entry on DailyKos, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), one of the most consistently progressive liberals in the Senate, surrendered to the Democratic Party Establishment, with an embarrassing string of lame and tired excuses for not standing for impeachment of the Bush\/Cheney regime. <\/p>\n<p>Feingold, who once took the lead in opposing Bush&#8217;s and Cheney&#8217;s abuses of power and their undermining of the Constitution with a censure motion filed in the Senate, wrote in the DailyKos diary that while he agreed that Bush and Cheney &#8220;may well have&#8221;\u009d committed &#8220;impeachable offenses,&#8221;\u009d he nonetheless did not support impeachment. <\/p>\n<p>His reasons offered for this bizarre turnabout sounded suspiciously like &#8220;talking points&#8221;\u009d from the Democratic Leadership Council, or from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080704140933\/http:\/\/atlanticfreepress.com\/content\/view\/1987\/81\/\">(Origianl Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic Free Press Feingold Turns to Dross Written by Dave Lindorff In a diary entry on DailyKos, Sen. 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