Democratic senators, filing in for their weekly caucus lunch yesterday, looked as if they’d seen a ghost.
“I haven’t read it,” demurred Barack Obama (Ill.).
“I just don’t have enough information,” protested Ben Nelson (Neb.). “I really can’t right now,” John Kerry (Mass.) said as he hurried past a knot of reporters — an excuse that fell apart when Kerry was forced into an awkward wait as Capitol Police stopped an aide at the magnetometer.
Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) brushed past the press pack, shaking her head and waving her hand over her shoulder. When an errant food cart blocked her entrance to the meeting room, she tried to hide from reporters behind the 4-foot-11 Barbara Mikulski (Md.).
“Ask her after lunch,” offered Clinton’s spokesman, Philippe Reines. But Clinton, with most of her colleagues, fled the lunch out a back door as if escaping a fire.
In a sense, they were. The cause of so much evasion was S. Res. 398, the resolution proposed Monday by Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) calling for the censure of President Bush for his warrantless wiretapping program. At a time when Democrats had Bush on the ropes over Iraq, the budget and port security, Feingold single-handedly turned the debate back to an issue where Bush has the advantage — and drove another wedge through his party.
So nonplused were Democrats that even Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), known for his near-daily news conferences, made history by declaring, “I’m not going to comment.” Would he have a comment later? “I dunno,” the suddenly shy senator said.
Republicans were grateful for the gift. The office of Sen. John Cornyn (Tex.) put a new “daily feature” on its Web site monitoring the censure resolution: “Democrat co-sponsors of Feingold Resolution: 0.”
[…]Five Democratic senators called a news conference yesterday to talk about the Bush budget’s “dangerously irresponsible priorities” — but three of them fled the room before allowing questions. The other two were stuck.
“Was it a good idea for Senator Feingold to bring up this resolution?” came the first question, from CNN’s Ed Henry.
“He brings up some very important issues,” Debbie Stabenow (Mich.) ventured.
Henry was unsatisfied. “So do you support censure, or not?
Stabenow took another stab. “It needs to have hearings,” she said.
Mary Landrieu (La.) pursed her lips. “Senator Feingold has a point that he wants to make,” she said. “We have a point that we want to make, talking about the budget.”
“Senators,” an aide interrupted, “we need to go.”
Next in the Senate TV gallery came Schumer. An aide hung up a poster showing a port. The senator called the ports situation “extremely troubling.” The aide hung up a poster of an Exxon cartoon. “Obscene profits,” decreed Schumer, equally passionately.
CNN’s Henry asked the Feingold question. Schumer ended the news conference.
Outside the Democrats’ lunch downstairs, the senators were similarly agile. The number two Democratic leader, Richard Durbin (Ill.), darted out of an elevator and into lunch when he thought nobody was looking.
I’m actually quite surprised that the MSM is giving this as much air time as they have. Have we turned a corner with the MSM bias?
Ok, pick yourself up off the floor, you know I was kidding. When the leftist bias leaves the MSM pigs will be flying while it snows in hell.
But Dana Milbank almost sounds as if he is laughing at these fools. It’s hard to believe but read the whole article. You know Feingold was a gift from heaven after reading this:
Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) brushed past the press pack, shaking her head and waving her hand over her shoulder. When an errant food cart blocked her entrance to the meeting room, she tried to hide from reporters behind the 4-foot-11 Barbara Mikulski (Md.).
Feingold come back!
But Dana Milbank almost sounds as if he is laughing at these fools. It’s hard to believe but read the whole article. You know Feingold was a gift from heaven after reading this:
“Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) brushed past the press pack, shaking her head and waving her hand over her shoulder. When an errant food cart blocked her entrance to the meeting room, she tried to hide from reporters behind the 4-foot-11 Barbara Mikulski (Md.).”

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Just the same ole crapola Carol, they will not rest until they get their payback for their hero’s impeachment for lying to the American people.
They will not be successful, but they will still try anyways…doesn’t matter if it hurts the morale of our troops or aids the enemy, the only thing they give a damn about is payback and power.
Attention, those who thought I was losing my mind by mentioning the bit of satire that Redstate published on the Congress taking over foreign policy:
Like A Hole In The Head
by Hugh Hewitt
March 15, 2006 04:36 PM PST
A new panel formed by Congress will second-guess Iraq War strategy and reconstruction. It will be chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee Hamilton, and will include former CIA Director Robert Gates; former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican; former Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan; former Clinton Chief of Staff Leon Panetta; former Clinton administration Defense Secretary William Perry; former Democratic Sen. Chuck Robb; and Alan Simpson, a Republican former senator from Wyoming.
This is a terrible move, this establishment of a body that will by its very nature be second guessing an army in the field (and its Commander-in-Chief – my thought) and under fire during a time of intense partisan debate.
What the hell are these people thinking and WHAT pray tell is Rudy Guiliani name doing in this group? This is stupid and dangerous and playing into Feingold’s hands and those who want to take over and run the government. Nothing good can come from this!
Comments? Read the whole disgusting thing over at Hugh Hewitt’s site.
Carol
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