And stuff on the Feingold censure has been no exception.

For instance, this from lefty 'sphere flavor of the month Glenn Greenwald.

He starts off

The Feingold Censure Resolution is unmasking the hideous underbelly of almost every Washington institution as vividly as anything that can be recalled.

Depends, I suppose, on the depth of one's powers of recollection.

He's evidently shocked at

the abject willingness of the media to simply pass along GOP talking points even when they take the form of factually false claims.

As if it took the SuperRuss res to do it. He's never read Ken Auletta's New Yorker piece, or Michael Massing's several NY Review of Books pieces.

Still less reviewed the generally - but far from universally - cringing posture in the face of administration deceit on national security adopted by the US media for decades.

Can you say Gulf of Tonkin?

He then quotes from the litany of Senate Dem excuses - as if, again, it took Russ to point out their fanatical prudentialism.

Or that this stance was in any way unusual for US Senators down the decades.

Exceptionally, Southern Senators - almost all Dems! - fought pretty damned hard to preserve segregation, of course. You might say today's Dems should take the old Southern Caucus as a model of organization and cohesion.

Just so long as none of them mentions what they're doing, natch!

And, of course, there were the Western insurgents, like Feingold's fellow Wisconsinites, the LaFollettes, who did a fair bit of crusading between them. Most of it as futile as the original Crusades.

But - my guess - a whip count on courage would find 95% of senators since 1789 in the heads below the parapet camp.

And when he quotes what he calls

a characteristically vile little e-mail

from Brer Mehlman as

exhibiting the only tactic Bush followers really can rely on these days -- accusing anyone who criticizes George Bush of supporting The Terrorists

one wonders whether he was awake during the Swifties' fun and games at the expense of poor old John Kerry.

Which itself was small beer compared with the 1828 election, when the Jackson camp accused John Quincy Adams of hiring his son's nurse to the Tsar for carnal purposes; and the Adams camp accused Jackson of being the bastard of a whore and a mulatto!

They don't make 'em like they used to!

But don't bother waking Greenwald up to tell him...