"In Friday's Wall Street Journal, former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern published a fretful op-ed against the Employee Free Choice Act, extolling the 'his'Democratic Party to "respect" the current system to form unions.  The claims made by McGovern in the op-ed are the exact same as those made by corporate-funded front groups opposed to the Employee Free Choice Act.

"The op-ed surprised some on the left, and conservatives and business groups seized the piece as supposed evidence of a split in the party on this key piece of legislation.  After all, as the former standard-bearer of the Democratic Party, doesn't McGovern speak for Democrats?

"Well, in case you were wondering why McGovern decided to go off the deep end on the Employee Free Choice Act, it turns out he's already been swimming in it for some time.

It's safe to say George McGovern is a patsy for anti-union lobbyist Rick Berman, the leader of a $30 million front group interfering in key Senate and House races this cycle.

"McGovern sits on the board of FirstJobs, another pro-business Berman front group, alongside the likes of Bush Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens, the editorial page director of the Washington Times, and the head of Sam's Club.

"And in 2006, around when Berman started his "Center for Union Facts," McGovern took to the LA Times op-ed page to bash both unions and the multiple anti-Wal-Mart intiatives in full swing at the time.  McGovern claimed at the time that paying Wal-Mart workers more would "eliminate jobs," but that the fairness of doing so "is a debate for another time." 

The Democratic Party supports workers and unions. This is unforgiveable.  McGovern is no longer a Democrat.

Then there is Russ Feingold praising J. Sid McSame, the poster boy for lack of integrity, lying, hypocrisy, and running a dishonorable campaign."

As TPM Election Central reports: "What's in the water Dems are drinking today? Don't they want Obama to win the presidential race?

"First we had Bob Kerrey praising McCain as someone whose war service shows he "can deal with a crisis." Now the Milwakee Journal Sentinal has this from Senator Russell Feingold:

"I think the guy calls 'em as he sees 'em, and as president would call 'em as he sees 'em, and would make people mad all over the place because it wouldn't fit anybody's playbook," said Feingold, who teamed up with McCain to rewrite federal campaign laws.

"He would be very original," Feingold said.

"Feingold even went on to describe McCain as a "maverick by nature."

"This isn't exactly on message with the Obama camp. In fact, the Obama campaign message is that McCain has an image as a maverick who "calls 'em as he sees 'em" but that in reality he isn't that at all. Obviously, someone somewhere has decided that Obama's most prominent surrogates are all supposed to go out and praise McCain en masse today in terms directly at odds with Dem efforts to define him."

The Feingold interview here will make Democrats want to vomit. 

It seems membership in the Senate 100 club causes Democrats to place blind loyality to colleagues ( another example: Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) of the Republican wing of the Democratic Party defending indicted Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) ahead of or instead of upholding the essence and precepts of the Democratic Party and their oaths to the Constitution  (As for Bob Kerrey, he never was a real Democrat but only Republican lite and should be ignored by true Democrats.)

If ever there was a reason for two term limits (12 years) for senators, this is it.