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By Robert Scheer — Voters in Wisconsin bought the tea party line because the president and his party have not been able to provide a believable alternative.
Posted on Jun 7, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — “The president is wrong.” So says one of the newly appointed co-chairs of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.
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Here we see former Sen. Russ Feingold taking stock of the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon on Monday’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” declaring that the “unholy alliance” between big business and certain political operatives on the right (although not exclusively from that side of the aisle) is being challenged. (more)
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A year and a half after voters gave him the boot, former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold is poised to get his old job back. A new poll shows Feingold leading four hypothetical opponents in the 2012 Senate race by double digits, boasting favorability ratings deserved by one of the great Senate champions.
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AP / Frank Franklin II
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This week we celebrate New York’s attorney general for refusing to let Wall Street off the hook. (More, including honorable mentions, after the jump).
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Stephen Colbert talks with Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold, deposed from the U.S. Senate in the last election, about the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, which we find was based on a landmark precedent known as “Money Talks v. Bullshit Walks.”
Posted on Apr 29, 2011
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By David Sirota — The only way to objectively define the tea party is to find a test case. And thanks to Wisconsin’s Senate race, we have exactly that.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Despite the conventional wisdom, more and more Democrats are proudly campaigning on what the health care bill has achieved—and they should.
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On Thursday, the Senate helped bring financial reform one step closer to reality by approving legislation designed to get at some of the roots, at least, of the economic destruction that Wall Street wrought two years ago.
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Robert Scheer — It’s not working. Time for the president to concede that the economy is at best stagnating and at worst about to take another steep nose dive.
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“False security is no security at all,” writes the Wisconsin senator, who says he will not vote for the financial reform bill because it would not prevent another meltdown and “has Wall Street’s fingerprints all over it.” According to Feingold, “the administration and conference leaders have gone to significant lengths to avoid making the bill stronger.”
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By Bill Boyarsky — Perhaps President Barack Obama should be thankful for the bad news—the oil spill, intractable unemployment and the rest—for it has definitely diverted attention from his biggest disaster: the Afghanistan war.
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During a 30-minute conference call, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., told bloggers he was disappointed that his party was “playing it safe” by refusing to end the Iraq war: “The problem is a whole lot of middle-of-the-road Democrats who refuse to pull the trigger, who refuse to do what needs to be done.”
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