Kristol on Feingold on Censure

This quote comes from Bill Kristol on Fox News Sunday yesterday on Senator Russ Feingold's move to censure President Bush over his warrantless wiretapping:

"I honestly believe that, in fact, he's winning this debate right now. ... The reason Feingold's move is very smart for him personally as a Democratic presidential candidate -- that is smart for the Democratic Party -- is he's going at a strength of President Bush. You don't get in politics only to play at issues where you already have public opinion on your side. He's trying to change public opinion. I disagree with him. I hope he doesn't succeed in changing public opinion. But so far he's making the case that it's illegal. He's going to have editorial pages backing him up. And the Republicans are just whining that ooh, he's trying to censure the president. They're not making a substantive defense in defense of the program."

The Republicans are whining because whining seems to be all that they can do right now.

They've had total control of the government for years now -- they've controlled the House for more than a decade and the White House for more than five years -- and they've totally fucked it up. This government has the Midas Touch in reverse -- everything they touch turns to shit.

So what else can they do while they're waiting to be thrown out of office but whine?

Tom Moran