Bush is an unpopular president who is administering a highly unpopular war and who admitted to committing a crime.

What part of this don't you get?

Cowering in fear of reprisal is not a legitimate or satisfactory reaction to Republican criminality. Bush is unpopular and getting more so by the day. It really doesn't get any more "open and shut" than that. Yet after Senator Feingold stood up to the craven warmongering, you rolled over and exposed your bellies, afraid that you might incur the wrath of Rove or (gasp!) be called "unpatriotic." You are a group of sniveling, spineless, clueless appeasers.

Not to put too fine a point on it:

Feingold: "I’m amazed at Democrats, cowering with this president’s numbers so low. The administration just has to raise the specter of the war and the Democrats run and hide."