Let's be blunt

Not James Blunt. Certainly not Roy Blunt. I'm talkin' about the Russ Feingold blunt.

In remarks delivered on the floor of the U.S. Senate on February 7, Sen. Russ Feingold challenged our tough-talking president on his wiretapping program.

"The President was blunt, so I will be blunt: This program is breaking the law, and this President is breaking the law. Not only that, he is misleading the American people in his efforts to justify this program.

Readers of this blog know that I love me some Sen. Feingold. I fancy thoughts about turning this blog into a "Make Russ Run in 2008" forum, but then I realize that I'm too lazy to pull something like that off.

But give this man some praise for continuing to stick it to Bush and his crew. Here's more:

"This goes way beyond party, and way beyond politics. What the President has done here is to break faith with the American people. In the State of the Union, he also said that 'we must always be clear in our principles' to get support from friends and allies that we need to fight terrorism. So let's be clear about a basic American principle: When someone breaks the law, when someone misleads the public in an attempt to justify his actions, he needs to be held accountable. The President of the United States has broken the law. The President of the United States is trying to mislead the American people. And he needs to be held accountable."