Dream Ticket Less Likely

My dream ticket, Obama-Feingold, seems to be slipping away...for shame.

Sen. Russ Feingold, in the video below, gives one of the better cases for why the FISA law shouldn't be passed as-is. He says too much time has been focused on the issue of immunity, when the real concern should be that there is supposedly a database of international conversations, text and audio, that have zero government oversight.



I probably should research the subject more, but Feingold's reasoning seems far more rational than some of the liberals who are arguing that Telecom companies either deserve to be punished, or somehow classified information would be revealed in a civil discovery process that couldn't be revealed through House/Senate investigations.

Either way, Sen. Feingold brings up an interesting point, which is that even though he thinks Obama would do the right thing constitutionally, he is concerned about the enormous pressures he'd be under by people in his administration to continue the prerogative of the President towards secrecy and continuing constitutionally dubious policies simply to maintain that power. It is certainly something that should be watched...and would be all the more with Feingold as Vice-President.

(H/T Kos)