Wisconsin's senators were among the few Democrats opting not to sign Harry Reid's letter to condemn Rush Limbaugh.
No Republican senators signed the letter. Not one.
Nine Democrats and one independent also chose not to put their names on Reid's smear.
Evan Bayh of Indiana, Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, Maria Cantwell of Washington, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut (the independent), Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Mark Pryor of Arkansas.
Naturally, being the hacks that they are, I assumed that Kohl didn't sign because he was napping and Feingold was too busy blogging on Daily Kos to get to it.
I'm not really sure why Kohl hasn't fallen in step with his fellow Democrats.
We now know that Feingold did make a conscious decision not to sign.
From Politico's The Crypt:
UPDATE: Feingold weighs in with a statement.
“I did not sign the letter regarding Rush Limbaugh for the same reason I voted against the Cornyn and Boxer amendments regarding negative political advertisements. The Senate should not get in the habit of condemning political speech, even speech that is offensive. These issues sidetrack the Senate from the real issues, such as working to safely redeploy our troops from Iraq. Rush Limbaugh says a lot of things that I find deplorable and these recent comments are a perfect example.”
So Feingold didn't sign, but he's participating in the smear campaign.
Maverick man Feingold doesn't have the courage to be honest about what front group Media Matters and Reid, plus presidential candidates Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Patrick Leahy, and Barack Obama, as well as other Dems are doing to Limbaugh.
Noooooo. He agrees with them. He's on board with condemning Limbaugh. He just doesn't want to sign the letter.
I find that deplorable.
Would someone please wake Kohl and get a statement from him on the sliming of Limbaugh?
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Clear Channel CEO Mark P. Mays responds.
In short, Mays respectfully tells Harry Reid and the Dems to lay off Limbaugh.
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