Shame On You, Wisconsin

Russ Feingold was one of the few good men in Washington, but Wisconsin's liberty-loving Tea Party just removed the only Senator to ever vote against the USAPATRIOT act.  Feingold also championed campaign finance reform and was the recipent of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.  He is a child of two immigrants, a champion of fair trade and civil liberties, immigration reform, ending capital punishment, cleaning up Washington pork-barrel politics.  Feingold actually returned money to the government that he considered wasteful.  He was the first senator to call foul on Iraq, and the first senator to call foul on President Bush's wiretapping.  Feingold was the poorest member of the Senate.  In other words, he was the closest thing we had to what the Tea Party claims to represent.  Yet the Tea Party actively targeted Feingold for removal.