And The Party on the Left...

Feingold: Democrats Must Stand up to Bush
WASHINGTON — Sen. Russ Feingold, a potential anti-war candidate in the 2008 presidential field, urged fellow Democrats on Monday to show more backbone in challenging President Bush on Iraq.

"We must get out of our political foxholes and be willing to clearly and specifically point out what a strategic error the Iraq invasion has been," Feingold, D-Wis., told a National Press Club audience.

AP

So I clearly have no regular format for the Daily Feingold. Whatever...

More backbone...? What party has Feingold been watching- and been a part of- lately? Backbone is the thing they need most?

Thanks for saying something, Russ Feingold, but to keep with the body metaphor, someone in a coma probably needs more than just a backbone.

If more than Harkin and Boxer were willing to co-sponsor Feingold's call for censure (which itself seems to be a bit silly Constitutionally and, in light of the illegal domestic spying program, less than what's required), if Ohio Congressional candidate Paul Hackett wasn't treated like a punk, if Democrats represented an alternative political vision that Americans seem to be longing for these days, I'd say it was just an issue of backbone.
Or maybe to take Russ Feingold's imagery further than he may have intended- what good is a backbone to a creature that has devolved into an invertebrate? I think I like you Russ Feingold, but what's it gonna take to get the slithering invertebrates to want a spine for their primitively functioning nervous systems if they're content to parasitically root around in waste and filth? To take things too far, they're not even exhibiting features that suggest the possibility of a spine- you're asking ecdysozoans to be chordates. It doesn't seem like it can happen.

So unless you do or call for something more extreme- more cataclysmic- to bring the lingering bilaterally symetrical tiploblasts in the Democratic party up to speed, you may leave me a bit cynical.

Oh and sorry about the late posting with the Daily Feingold- I was up at 5 today but Blogger wouldn't let me post anything until around 9:30. So I missed all the early morning Daily Feingold searchers, blast.

Oh and the "Evilution" reference- sorry if that bugged you too.