When Bernie Sanders is against you, you know you have a problem.

Virtually all of Sen. Russ Feingold’s Democratic colleagues share his displeasure with President Bush.

But so far, only a handful seem prepared to even consider supporting his push for a nonbinding measure to censure Bush — an action that is forcing Democrats to choose between expressing their dissatisfaction with an unpopular president and getting hammered for supporting yet another symbolic resolution while key national issues go unaddressed.

“I do think it would behoove us to put some pressure on the president to start listening to what is going on in the country,” said freshman Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.). “But I came here to get stuff done — not to vote on procedural motions.”

“I really don’t know if there is any appetite for [censure] in the Senate,” said Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), one of three co-sponsors of a Feingold censure last year rebuking the Bush administration for its warrantless domestic surveillance program.

“There is a lot of anger and frustration [here],” Kerry said, “but I am not sure it’s gravitated towards that.”

Even Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has called Bush the “worst president in the modern history of America,” would not definitively say he’ll support Feingold’s measure.

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