Senator Herb Kohl, a member of the Judiciary Committee, showed up at the Censure Hearing today, stayed an hour, and left. Never, so far as I’ve heard, said anything.
Since I’m running against him, it seems I ought to put out some kind of press release.
If he’d been at all helpful to Russ, I was ready to be extra nice, and if he’d not showed, I’d have criticised him for it.
But since he showed and had nothing to say, what can I say?
Crossposted over here, over there
“Senator Kohl has once again done what he’s done so often in the past: refused to take a stand. Afraid to be attacked for backing Senator Feingold’s resolution, he remained silent. Afraid to be criticized for failing to attend an important hearing, the Senator chose to put in a token appearance.
Once again, Senator Kohl was afraid to take a stand. Is this the kind of Senator that the forthright and principled people of the State of Wisconsin want representing them in the nation’s capital?”
perfect.
Madman that is wonderful!!
show people a spine…obviously the Honorable Sen. Kohl doesn’t have one…nor do many other dems. They pretty much left Feingold twisting in the wind…from my brief exposure to the hearing
Face time and a check mark for attendance doesn’t cut it. This isn’t elementary school. No points for showing up.
Or, perhaps, he’s content with the situation and doesn’t feel the need to defend the constitution and the role of the Senate as part of a system of checks and balances; or maybe thinks his constituency doesn’t give a two-penny damn; or he supports, de facto, the actions and positions that the admin. has taken…the list is endless.
You’re a pretty good wordsmith Ben…a response is required.
Go!
Peace
Thx for posting Ben. This is just disgraceful treatment of Russ by his colleague. Please, do give him a response, and let him know this has not passed unnoticed. Glad to hear someone is running against him, and if I still lived in WI, I’d be working on your campaign for sure. I want to help support Russ any way I can, and though I wrote to Harkin to urge him to support Russ, he beat me to the punch and co-sponsored. I was proud he came around so quickly, now if Kohl could just grow a pair….(and what, 40+ other Dems?)
emptywheel’s suggestion at that other blog, tho I’ll mention that Kohl’s had no official comment on the NSA spying to date.
wow, that is really good.