The Darkness Before Sunset

Posted By Suzanne Nossel Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 3:02 AM Share

This piece by the fine Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reporter Katherine Skiba was one I really didn't want to read. As Dan mentioned in introducing me, I did some work in the Senate years ago. William Proxmire was the senior colleague of my boss, Republican Bob Kasten (R-WI). Prox was an revered figure in Wisconsin politics at that time, known...

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SERGEANT

3:32 AM ET

August 16, 2005

A very nice post about

A very nice post about Senator Proxmire and I appreciate the information about him. Truly sad. I wish him and his loving family well. Thanks for the posting.

MRJAUK

10:13 PM ET

August 16, 2005

Don't forget his tireless

Don't forget his tireless efforts to convince the US to sign the Genocide Convention treaty. There's a wonderful account of this in Samantha Power's "Problem from Hell".

THOMAS JACKSON

2:41 AM ET

August 17, 2005

Proxmire was a reliable

Proxmire was a reliable leftist who was so entirely predictable you could set a watch to his votes. Interesting you cite his opposition to McCarthy, since McCarthy was right in his charges about the communist inflitration of the government during the prior two administrations. Proxmire's defense of the Communists at State today make him look both foolish and either the victim of his aides or just living in a parallel universe. It appears the data he gleans from the papers today is no less astute than in his defense of communists at State.

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