Feingold to Pursue Dem Suicide

Sen. Russ Feingold continues to be the champion of the wacky left on Iraq policy, and wants to hold hearings that the Village People (Dem '08 candidates) won't be too happy about. He wants to promote cutting off the funds for our troops in the field:

Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., has scheduled a hearing next Tuesday in his Judiciary Committee subcommittee to explore whether Congress has the authority to cut off funding for the U.S. military campaign in Iraq. The move comes as Congress prepares to vote on a congressional resolution opposing President Bush's escalation of the war.

Feingold, a fierce war critic, will force Democrats to consider an option many consider politically suicidal: denying funds to the military and U.S. soldiers to force a quicker end to the war. Democratic leaders have privately called on members to restrain from cutting off funding and focus on congressional resolutions condemning the Bush policy. The resolutions are nonbinding and therefore symbolic. ...

Feingold, who chairs the Subcommittee on the Constitution, will question several witnesses, including a Library of Congress official and legal experts from Harvard, Duke, and the University of Virginia, on the issue. Senior Bush administration officials have publicly argued that Congress has no such right, but Feingold plans to introduce legislation to force President Bush to pull American forces out of the troubled country.

Bring it on, Rusty. You'll put your own party in a box that will be very hard to get out of and force a lot of people on your side to cast votes that will be very unpopular to the radicals that support you.