Nobody's Senator but...Huh?

Russ Feingold has been getting so much attention lately. He certainly knows how to play the national media and suck up to the radical Left.

It would be interesting to tally up all the interviews and televised appearances he has done since he took to the floor of the Senate on March 13, and for twenty-five minutes called President Bush a criminal.

I bet his media from last week would rival that allotted to Cindy Sheehan at the peak of her Crawford ditch show.

What about the other senator from Wisconsin? What has Herb Kohl been up to?

Yes, he's running campaign commercials, something that no reasonable person would be doing right now. The guy has been a U.S. senator since 1988 and no one is running against him, yet he buys air time. That's just weird.

I went to Kohl's website looking for a statement, a comment, a press release, anything about his position on Feingold's censure resolution.

Nothing.

I wanted to know where he stood, so I called his offices in Washington and Milwaukee.

It appears that his offices don't know where he stands on the issue either.

According to the Milwaukee office, Kohl is still listening to the thoughts and concerns of constituents on the matter. At this point, he has no comment about the resolution.

I asked when he would be announcing his position and was told that no date had been set.

Where does Kohl stand on timetables?

In regard to the Iraq war, Kohl's website states:

Last year Kohl supported legislation sponsored by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) which called on the President to make 2006 a year of transition between U.S. and Iraqi control. Senator Levin has also suggested that the Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds are all counting on the U.S. presence in Iraq to keep the country from falling into civil war. He argues that the U.S. should use that leverage to motivate the Iraqis to make the necessary compromises to achieve the broadly-based political settlement that is essential for defeating the insurgency -- that the U.S. should tell the Iraqis that if they fail to reach a solution by the time table that they have set forth, that the U.S. will consider a time table for the reduction of our forces. Kohl asked Secretary Rumsfeld to consider that option.

Hmmm. Kohl thinks it's possible to set a timetable for troop withdrawal, but he can't say when he'll decide on Feingold's resolution.

Right.

Actually, I'm glad Kohl is supposedly listening to the people he respresents. He should. That's his job. But, it has been a week since Feingold introduced his resolution. The thing is pretty straightforward. I think by now Kohl should be able to say whether he's for moving to censure the President or not. I'd like to see him show just a little spine.

After the no comment response from the Milwaukee office, I wondered what story I'd get from the Washington office; so out of curiosity, I called D.C.

In that conversation, Kohl's position was relayed to me as being a bit more defined than the completely clueless stance. According to the Washington office, Kohl has "not signed on" to the censure resolution.

To clarify, I said, "So, he's againt the measure."

The woman on the phone said no, that Kohl wasn't against it, but he had "not signed on."

Obviously, she had been told to respond with the "not signed on" line to anyone inquiring about Kohl's opinion on censure.

I said that I didn't understand what she was saying, and asked her to explain.

The woman said that Kohl does not feel this (censure) is the best way to approach the "domestic wiretapping program."

I then said, "So, he's against it."

Again, she said that he had "not signed on."

Finally, I asked if it would be correct to say, "At this time, the Senator is not for the resolution."

The woman said yes.

In sum, the Washington office said that Kohl is not for Feingold's censure resolution, but that's not to be confused with being against it.

OK.......

That's our Herb.

Nobody's Senator but...huh?