"Which is a fancy way of saying 'give all Executive Branch power to the Senate'..."

No it isn't. It's a direct way of saying, "Gone are the days of a unilateral White House that likes to simply ignore laws, procedures, and processes it doesn't like in order to advance a failed personal agenda." The government was set up as manifold in the first place so that no one branch of the bastard could exert undue influence free of the oversight of the other two, but the Bush administration just spend eight years trying to undo the previous 200. Russ just wants things to be back to the way they're supposed to be.

coco ebert: Oh subby, you so don't know anything about Russ Feingold.

So very much THIS. I was a constituent of his for years, the man's got foresight, integrity, and intelligence. Plus, I've never seen cleaner, more honest campaigns run in my life. When he ran for his first term against this clown named Mark Neumann, it was the first, last and ONLY time I've EVER seen a candidate run for national office without airing a SINGLE negative campaign ad. Feingold's spots were all about his views, stances, character and vision, and said NOTHING WHHATSOEVER bad about the other guy. Nothing. Zero. Meanwhile, Neumann was throwing more mud than the first six rows of Woodstock '99. Feingold won handily, and has never looked back.

The man's an exceptional public servant, and about the ONLY politician I WOULDN'T cynically expect ulterior motives from.