What do you think of Feingold as chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee?

[Connonym]

Needless to say, I'm hoping it comes to pass.

"Vice President-elect Joe Biden leaves an open chairmanship on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that could end up being filled by one of the most outspoken critics of the Iraq war.

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.), among the chamber’s most liberal members, is the fourth Democrat in line on the committee, behind Biden, Sen. Chris Dodd (Conn.) and Sen. John Kerry (Mass.).

Dodd said Thursday he plans to stay on as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Kerry is reportedly lobbying to be President-elect Barack Obama’s Secretary of State.

That leaves Feingold, an unapologetic champion of civil liberties and a staunch opponent of the Bush administration’s war in Iraq, next in line. Feingold opposed the war from the start and was the first senator to call for a U.S. troop withdrawal timetable."

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/outspoken-feingold-could-lead-senate-foreign-relations-2008-11-06.html

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Anything that doesn't take him out of the Senate.

He seems to be Senator-For-Life in these parts. I don't know that Wisconsin has another Feingold to replace him with.

[PeaceNikki]

2. I think (and hope) he'll remain on the Senate.

Until he makes his own run for POTUS. :patriot:

[AllyCat]

3. I think he'd be awesome. Better than Kerry for the job, even if Kerry stayed there

Just so he stays in the Senate.

[undeterred]

4. He could leave the Senate

to be President or Attorney General. Otherwise we need him in the Senate, and Chair of Foreign Relations is a terrific post for him.