Im still a little stunned that Russ Feingold has lost his seat. Republican Ron Johnson defeated threeterm Democrat Russ Feingold on Tuesday becoming the states first Republican. My only hope is that Feingold goes on to either serve in the Obama administration. Tonight about 18 years later one of the Senates liberal lions. Feingold was the perfect politician for America as our founders envisioned it. Madison and Milwaukee are very progressive but the rest of the state is not.

But by far the biggest political news to come out of Wisconsin is businessman Ron Johnsons defeat of three term Democratic Senator Russ Feingold. Consider it a beacon of our money and fearmonger drenched politics. Watch the CSpan video of his welcome press conference here.

As the Republican wave spreads across the country its time to say goodbye to one of the bigname progressive champions of the past 18 years Sen. If there was a candidate of the Tea Party then Johnson was surely it. What Feingold stood for was the worst kind of a la carte devotion to.

When it mattered at election time the only civil liberties that were worth defending were those that Russ Feingold found important evinced by McCainFeingold.

Yes it has elected terrific progressives like Bob LaFollette Gaylord Nelson and Russ Feingold but it also gave us Joe McCarthy.

The Senate just lost its most principled member Russ Feingold. Russ Feingold DWI champion of campaign finance reform and longtime opponent of the.

Feingolds a big music fan and he does a YouTube series of bands he loves along with notes about where hes been traveling in his state.

MILWAUKEE A businessman who sought support from the tea party has toppled one of the Senates most prominent liberals. I think this will be perhaps the single greatest tragedy of the 2010 elections.

In 1993 Russ Feingold arrived at the US Senate as a freshman with a number one priority Deficit reduction.

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