Russ Goes South, Again

Lots of interesting perspective on Russ Feingold's return trip to the Very Red South. For example, the Milwaukee daily called it "one of the more unusual forays a Democrat with national ambitions could make - a three-day campaign-style swing through a state his party lost by 25 points in the 2004 presidential race."

The Mongomery Advertiser made sure we knew Feingold was out of his element: "What a joke," Alabama Republican Party Chairwoman Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh said in rebuttal later in the day. "The reason he came back was because he opened his mouth and he inserted his foot to start with." To that, of course, I say, yeah, but your name's Twinkle.

The Birmingham News told us that "Congress is on spring break." And I think it means a lot that Russ is off fence-mending instead of dousing young women's thin t-shirts with Budweiser.

At MSNBC (it took me some time to figure out that the headline "Pope linked to feeding tube" probably doesn't mean the same as "Boy Scout leader linked to child porn" and has nothing to do with the World's Most Famous Feeding Tube, down in Florida), there's a rerun of local paper's story, but a brand-new story today about Russ's seat on the Senate Judiciary committee. That story includes such melifluous prose as, "Unlike another potential 2008 contender, fellow Judiciary Committee Democrat Sen. Joe Biden, whose questioning of witnesses tends to become a meandering meditation on life and the law, Feingold poses crisp queries." I don't really know what it's about.

Just thought I'd give you all a heads up.