Preparing to be heartbroken again

Russ Feingold was on The Daily Show last night, showing a rare gift for distilling complex points down into the kind of simple language even an American Idiot can understand. Feingold may be a bit challenged in the conventional on-screen charisma department, but when most Democrats get bogged down in the minutiae of FISA courts and constitutional law, Feingold cuts right to the chase:

I was taught that the Congress makes the laws and the president is supposed to sign them and enforce them. He's not supposed to make them up.

Boom! And that's what it's all about, isn't it? All explained in two simple sentences. And the studio audience went nuts.

I'm on record for 2008 as being in the "Feingold or no one" column, and despite the efforts on the part of just about everyone to nominate Hillary Clinton before a single primary vote is cast, I'm sticking with it. Feingold has his heart in the right place, he has a droll, self-effacing, non-flashy kind of charm, he's smart, and most importantly he respects the laws of this country as set forth under the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I'm sure it'll all come to naught. The party will nominate Hillary Clinton in an effort to get rid of that pesky netroots once and for all -- and she will lose resoundingly. We will have more debt, more tax cuts, and more theocracy under even a McCain or Giuliani administration -- and the Democrats will still be scratching their heads and saying maybe we SHOULD have theocracy in order to win.

But until that time, I'm bussin' Russ.