Alterman: 'Feingold shouldn't be out there alone'

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This from the end of Eric Alterman's blog entry:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10532065/#051220

If we're Americans, we realize that the president is but our employee. He works for us. He takes an oath to abide by the immutable principles of a Constitution that begins with the three magnificent words, "We, The People." If we're Americans, we realize that there is not a system of "our" rights and "their" rights. Every abridgement -- potential or actual -- of someone's civil liberties is an attack on them all. If we're Americans, we realize that there is more to the country than its economy, that there is more to the system than its military. The Eastern bloc people didn't shake off the petrification of the Soviet bloc just because they wanted blue jeans and the Beatles. They wanted Jefferson and Madison, too, and all the raucous, unruly freedom that came after them. It is a big moment because it is one of those moments that forces on us the fundamental question that a wise old teacher of mine once said was at the heart of the American experiment:

Do we govern or are we governed?

If we are governed, then nothing that's been revealed in the past several days matters very much. However, if we govern, then it's goddam well time for us to get on with it. Russ Feingold shouldn't be out there alone. Where's John Edwards? Where's Hillary? Why is John McCain's straight-talkin' mouth suddenly full of mush and marbles? Where's anybody who wants to be president on the subject of the towering and illegal presumption of the current one? Where's the media, so concerned about the First Amendment that they can't be bothered with the next several? The president has declared himself beyond the law, beyond the Congress, beyond the people, beyond all reasonable limits, and beyond the Constitution he swore to preserve, protect, and defend. He has made himself a king, and he's declared himself proud of it. There's John Lewis, who knows better than all of us what's at stake.

Where's everybody else?