Part One
Posted to Robbedvoter's weblog (Soapbox) on Sat Jan 24th, 2004 at 11:18:58 AM EST
Dear Mr Kerry
I had sworn to myself I'd never vote you for anything after your refusal to join the Florida 14 in denouncing the Florida electoral votes (Jan 6, 2001) and then insulting me by saying "No one asked". I did.
You topped that with your vote for war (the Kennedy or Byrd resolutions were not good enough for you?)
On St Patrick's Day you quipped: I may not be Irish, but at least I am not French". Lovely.
You followed this with yet another scornful message to those "who cry in their tea cups over the stolen election" So, if democracy twarting is so meaningless to you, who appointed you the gate keeper of the democratic party? How dare you question Wesley Clark's credentials?
I am sick and tired of Mayflower democrats like you and Dean who think the membership in the party is some kind of birthright. (I advise you to take a look at James Trafficant and Zell Miller before you puff up too much with your titles)
I am a former independent, drawn to the democratic party by anger over the stolen election (tea cup cryer to you). It's attitudes like yours that maybe driving me back out, to independent status.
P.S. Is marrying a republican a mortal sin or a misdemeanor for Mayflower Democrats like you?
Kindly take me off your mailing list - as a former independent, I am not worthy..
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 02/01/2004 06:33:55 AM EST
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Kerry IS the leader in something:
"A study by the Center for Responsive Politics shows Kerry has received more money from lobbyists than any senator, current or former, dating back to 1989, when the center first starting collecting the data. As of September 31, 2003, Kerry had received nearly $640,000 from lobbyists, the group said."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/31/elec04.prez.main/index.html
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/31/2004 08:14:03 AM EST
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/30/2004 10:24:10 PM EST
battles
He says he "led the fight" on several fronts, but few bills bear his name.
January 30, 2004Modified:January 30, 2004
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docid=134
Summary
John Kerry is fond of saying "I led the fight" on a lot of things -- against Arctic drilling, against Bush's Medicare prescription drug legislation, for federal grants for 100,000 new police officers, against Newt Gingrich's attempts to lessen environmental regulations.
But reporters who cover Congress often gave others credit for the leading roles in some of those fights -- with scant mention of Kerry.
And The Associated Press last July found that only eight laws had Kerry as their lead sponsor, five of them "ceremonial," two relating to the fishing industry, and one providing federal grants to support small businesses owned by women.More
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/30/2004 07:36:07 PM EST
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For Immediate Release
Date: January 30, 2004
http://clark04.com/press/release/214/
Dr. Mary Frances Berry Responds to Senator Kerry's Remarks On Affirmative Action
Today, in a conference call with reporters, Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, made the following remarks:
Back in 1992, when I read what Senator Kerry was saying about affirmative action, I felt like someone had kicked me in the stomach. I was deeply disturbed, because Senator Kerry was saying exactly the same thing that opponents of affirmative action were saying - that it was reverse discrimination, that the policy was a failure, that all it did was perpetuate racism. And even worse, he made no suggestions about what legal steps should be taken to improve it.
Last night, at the debate, I was surprised when he invoked the name of Bill Clinton in discussing the "mend it, don't end it" approach to affirmative action. President Clinton was not yet in office when Senator Kerry made that 1992 speech. And once Clinton was in office, and we were engaged in the difficult debate about the future of affirmative action, Senator Kerry was nowhere in sight. While we were struggling to do all we could to make progress on these issues, he was simply missing in action.
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/30/2004 04:36:01 PM EST
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Kerry no stranger to lobbyists' donations
Senator among top recipients in Congress from special interests
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20040130-9999_1n30kerry.html
By Dana Wilkie and Joe Cantlupe
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
January 30, 2004
WASHINGTON - In his quest for the White House, Sen. John Kerry says he is committed to sweeping out the "special interests" he contends are trying to manipulate federal laws and policies.
But the Massachusetts lawmaker and Democratic presidential front-runner is among Congress' top recipients of money from some of those special interests - drug companies, HMOs, lawyers, investment firms, real estate interests and contractors, among others."more
I wonder if him not voting against the Medicare buster bill had anything to do with those HMO kick backs...
And you had the chutzpa to smear Clark whose entire life is open for all to see
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/30/2004 09:40:24 AM EST
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http://robbedvoter.forclark.com/story/2004/1/30/9319/54910
with quotes from transcript
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/30/2004 07:59:17 AM EST
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62318-2004Jan30.html
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Moderator Tom Brokaw asked Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) why he had said it was a mistake for Democrats to focus on the South during previous national elections. "I never said Democrats made a mistake," Kerry replied. "I never said that at all."
But in a town hall meeting Monday in Hanover, N.H., in response to a question about electoral strategy, Kerry said, "Everyone always makes the mistake of looking South."
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/30/2004 07:39:32 AM EST
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sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/01/29/WMDS.TMP
The front-runner, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, speaking Wednesday as he flew to St. Louis to campaign in the Missouri primary, said Kay's testimony called into question the integrity of American intelligence, and he urged the administration to come clean.
according to CNN yesterday, Kerry actually called for Tenet's resignation. Asked in the debate of Chenney's manipulation of intelligence - he hedged.
Clark in the same debate : do not blame the intelligence community, this is W's responsibility!
discussed here:
http://bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=11&topic_id=8756&mesg_id=875 6&page=
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/29/2004 04:51:50 PM EST
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PNAC Project Director Contributes to Kerry
Mark Gerson is a project director at the Project for the New American Century (1) and a contributor to the Kerry campaign (2):
GERSON, MARK L
NEW YORK,NY 10017
GERSON LEHRMAN GROUP
6/30/2001
$1,000
Kerry, John
GERSON, MARK L
NEW YORK,NY 10017
GERSON LEHRMAN GROUP
6/30/2001
$1,000
Kerry, John
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A Question:
One David Epstein, Office of Secretary of Defense, Net Assessment, is a "project participant" at PNAC (3).
Campaign filings show these contributions to the Kerry campaign (4):
EPSTEIN, DAVID
CAMBRIDGE,MA 02138
PATTON BOGGS/SENIOR PARTNER
6/30/2003
$2,000
Kerry, John
EPSTEIN, DAVID
CAMBRIDGE,MA 02138
PATTON BOGGS/SENIOR PARTNER
3/5/2003
$2,000
Kerry, John
EPSTEIN, DAVID
CAMBRIDGE,MA 02138
PATTON BOGGS/SENIOR PARTNER
8/1/2003
$2,000
Note that these contributions exceed the legal limit.)
While these filings list Epstein as a senior partner with Patton Boggs, he is not listed on the Patton Boggs website.
Is the Epstein of the Office of Secretary of Defense and PNAC participant the same as the Epstein of Patton Boggs? The
Net is pretty well scrubbed of any mention of either Epstein. Can anybody confirm or deny they are one in the same?
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Sources:
1. http://www.newamericancentury.org/aboutpnac.htm
2. http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=GERSON&txtState=%28all+stat es%29&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=Kerry&txt2004=Y&txt2002=Y&txt2000=Y&Ord er=N
3. http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
4. http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=epste...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=22 3379
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/29/2004 02:15:16 AM EST
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http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?pid=1261
Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition ... to the early use of military force by the US against Iraq. I share your concerns. On January 11, I voted in favor of a resolution that would have insisted that economic sanctions be given more time to work and against a resolution giving the president the immediate authority to go to war."
--letter from Senator John Kerry to Wallace Carter of Newton Centre, Massachusetts, dated January 22 [1991
"Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. From the outset of the invasion, I have strongly and unequivocally supported President Bush's response to the crisis and the policy goals he has established with our military deployment in the Persian Gulf."
--Senator Kerry to Wallace Carter, January 31 [1991]
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/28/2004 04:21:24 PM EST
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http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200401220835.asp
As a senator with the responsibility to cast a vote on a variety of contentious issues, Kerry has had many opportunities to square off with the president. Yet an analysis of Kerry's 2003 Senate voting record shows that he did not show up for most of the Senate's confrontations with the White House.
The publication Congressional Quarterly examined 119 recorded votes held in 2003 in which the president had taken a position. CQ found that Kerry was present for just 28 percent of those votes. In contrast, Kerry's colleague from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, was present for 97 percent of the votes.
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And we know some of them were Omnibus Bill (overtime), the Medicare hand grenade, The FCC media consolidation.
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/28/2004 03:20:56 PM EST
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As for that talk with Kerry, Kerry refered to it Sunday morning, on Face the nation. He said he has a lot of respect for Clark, they cleared the misunderstanding and the canpaign should.t be fought on that ground. And then he showed he lacks honor by allowing the same evening the 60 minutes interview (probably taped before) without editting or commentary. 2 days before the NH elections, to a 60 minutes audience Kerry let the lie out
And that sums up his caracter - none.
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by jerseyshore (Jerseyshore@clark,com) on 01/28/2004 09:45:16 AM EST
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"my son was a lieutenant and I was a lieutenant"
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/28/2004 07:00:26 AM EST
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http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/27/wbr.00.html
CLARK: Well, I think John Kerry did a fine job in Vietnam. I was there about the same time. I also was a junior officer in Vietnam. I was a company commander.
snip
BLITZER: Do you owe John Kerry a little bit of an apology for sort of that tone of what you said?
CLARK: I think that John Kerry and I have already had that discussion.
And it's very clear that -- my son was a lieutenant and I was a lieutenant. And no Democrat and no Republican will ever drive a wedge between me and our nation's veterans. It's just that simple.
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/27/2004 09:15:56 AM EST
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/153468p-135093c.html
Kerry, Dick Short Names on Petitions
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
DAILY NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
Sen. John Kerry and Rep. Dick Gephardt were allowed on the New York
State primary ballot even though they did not file enough nominating
signatures to qualify, officials said yesterday.
The candidates took advantage of a secret political peace treaty
hammered out by Democratic state chairman Herman (Denny) Farrell in
which they agreed not to challenge each other's petitions." More
In related news, Clarkies gathered 43,000 signatures for Wesley Clark, well in excess of the 5,000 required.
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/26/2004 10:10:48 PM EST
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According to a new book - Warrior King - the case for impeaching GW Bush by John C Bonifaz and John Conyers:
"In giving the President this authority," the Kerry said, "I expect him to fulfill the commitments he has made to the American people in recent days - to work with the United Nations Security Council to adopt a new resolution setting out tough and immediate inspection requirements, and to act with our allies at our side if we have to disarm Saddam Hussein by force."
"If he fails to do so," Senator Kerry continued, "I will be the first to speak out."
Bonifaz goes on:
Senator Kerry broke that promise ... In the crucial days after the president withdrew his efforts to gain United Nations support for his war and before the president launched his invasion, Senator Kerry remained silent.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2094399/
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/26/2004 06:03:44 PM EST
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MATTHEWS: There are two men in this campaign who are running who have military background. You've got a couple of stars, medals and so does General Clark. Compare you with him.
KERRY: Well I have great respect for General Clark, but he has been a military man all his life. He has been a general.
MATTHEWS: Is he a headquarters guy and you're a field guy?
KERRY: He has generally been. No, he was in the field at one point, but very little in his career. By and large General Clark has not had the breadth of experience in foreign policy and I think there's an enormous difference between us. I have spent 35 years-you know when I came back from Vietnam, I stood up and fought against the war. I've...
MATTHEWS: Well how did he get a Silver Star if he wasn't in action?
KERRY: I said he was. I said he had...
MATTHEWS: Right.
KERRY: ... one brief, I believe, tour in the field like that, and then he as a general. Look, I'm not disrespectful of General Clark, but there's a difference between us in the levels of our experience. There's also a difference in the values that we fought for through a lifetime. When General Clark was voting for Richard Nixon and voting for Ronald Reagan, I was fighting against both of them. When General Clark was in the military, I was standing up and fighting against Noriega, against the illegal war in Central America.
I have served on the Narcotics Terrorism Committee as chairman. I wrote a book about-called "The New War". I have been involved in opening the Philippines and getting rid of Marcos and bringing Cory Aquino to power. I personally negotiated in Cambodia in order to try to get the tribunals for.
http://msnbc.msn.com/?id=3053419
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/26/2004 05:25:13 PM EST
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Presidential candidate John F. Kerry is bashing President Bush's policies on Iraq, education and civil liberties. What he rarely mentions, however, is that his Senate votes helped make all three possible.
That these lawmakers voted with Bush on key issues is complicating their bids to win their party's nomination, as fellow Democrats demand explanations. As the campaign progresses, it also could make it harder for them to draw sharp distinctions with Bush on what are shaping up as among the biggest issues of the 2004 campaign, according to political strategists.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62830-2003Sep11 172;Found=true
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/26/2004 04:30:57 PM EST
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He criticized President Bush for withdrawing from the Kyoto global warming treaty in 2001. "You don't just walk away from a treaty [negotiated by] 160 countries over 10 years," he said. But in 1997, Kerry voted for a resolution, which passed 95-0, saying the United States "should not be a signatory" to the treaty.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/26/opinion/main595936.shtml
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/26/2004 12:08:50 PM EST
For Immediate Release
Date: December 3, 2003
Clark Campaign Response to Senator Kerry's Fondness for James Baker
http://clark04.com/press/release/103/
Clark Campaign Communications Director Matt Bennett issued the following statement in response to Senator Kerry's comments today at the Council on Foreign Relations:
"Senator Kerry's suggestion that he might use Bush family consigliere James Baker as a special envoy to the Middle East is offensive. Baker, who was the driving force behind George W. Bush's theft of the 2000 election in the Florida recount, helped to disenfranchise thousands of voters.
We liked it better when Senator Kerry was calling Baker's Florida operation 'thuggism.' If Kerry wants a former Secretary of State who headed a recount effort in Florida, let's stay away from political thugs and go with Warren Christopher."
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/26/2004 11:24:54 AM EST
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On Sunday, Kerry asked Dean to "stop running a negative campaign," even as he suggested that Dean can't get elected. During door-to-door campaigning Sunday, Kerry said his rival is weak on foreign policy issues, and favors higher taxes for middle-class voters. "The Republicans will just kill us on this," Kerry said. "Between foreign policy and taxes, I think it is a serious problem."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4060197/
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/26/2004 05:39:55 AM EST
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Kerry's Senate Career Short on Law-Making
Associated Press
Monday, July 21, 2003
WASHINGTON -- Asked what he has accomplished during his 19 years in the Senate, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (search) gives a lengthy answer but has a short list of laws that bear his name.
His response prompted an examination of his record. Kerry has been the lead sponsor of eight bills that have become law. Two are related to his work on the Senate panel on oceans and fisheries - a 1994 law to protect marine mammals from being taken during commercial fishing and a 1991 measure for the National Sea Grant College Program Act (search), which finances marine research.
In 1999, President Clinton signed his bill providing grants to support small businesses owned by women.
The rest of the laws he saw passed were ceremonial - renaming a federal building, designating Vietnam Veterans Memorial 10th Anniversary Day, National POW/MIA Recognition Day (search) and World Population Awareness Week in two separate years.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,92477,00.html
by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/26/2004 05:35:47 AM EST
Kerry Said "If You Don't Believe In The U.N. ... Or You Don't Believe Saddam Hussein Is A Threat With Nuclear Weapons, Then You Shouldn't Vote For Me." (Ronald Brownstein, "On Iraq, Kerry Appears Either Torn Or Shrewd," Los Angeles Times, 1/31/03)
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/26/2004 05:27:36 AM EST
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Attack
Quote: "What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States" (Boston Globe, April 3, 2003)
rebuff
Charge: Then-GOP Chairman Marc Racicot said Kerry "crossed a grave line when he dared to suggest the replacement of America's commander in chief at a time when America is at war." Racicot said Kerry's remark was "designed to further Sen. Kerry's political ambitions at a time when the lives of America's sons and daughters are at stake." John Podhoretz of the New York Post accused Kerry of drawing an "implicit parallel ... between Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush.
multiple foldings
Kerry issued four responses to his critics: 1) "It is possible that the word 'regime change' is too harsh. Perhaps it is." 2) It was just a "quip." 3) "That's what a presidential race is about. It's about changing the administration." 4) "I'm not going to let the likes of Tom DeLay question my patriotism, which I fought for and bled for in order to have the right to speak out."
http://slate.msn.com/id/2089125/
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/26/2004 05:15:31 AM EST
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/26/politics/26LETT.html
That may be why Mr. Bush chose to swipe at Mr. Kerry in some off-the-record jokes in a speech on Saturday night at the Alfalfa Club dinner, an annual banquet for Washington's political upper class.
"I think Kerry's position on the war in Iraq is politically brilliant," Mr. Bush told the Alfalfa Club guests at the Capitol Hilton, according to a guest who heard the remarks. "In New Hampshire yesterday, he stated he had voted for the war, adding that he was strongly opposed to it."
Also, I'd like to keep this a record of relevant reasons not to vote for Kerry. Any comments to me, this blog, opinions - mail them to me, or express them elsewhere. If you have substantial additions to this, please do. It's not a chit-chat, it's a record. Thank you.
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/25/2004 05:41:15 PM EST
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On the omnibus bill, a Kerry supporter brought up specifics:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=18 6510#190486
Here are the critical votes, the cloture votes
Tuesday, rejected(which is good): http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&sessio n=2&vote=00001
Thursday, passed (bad): http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&sessio n=2&vote=00002
The swing voters who went over to the dark side between Tuesday and Thursday:
Bingaman (D-NM)
Breaux (D-LA)
Carper (D-DE)
Dayton (D-MN)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Nelson (D-NE)
Reid (D-NV)
Schumer (D-NY)
Final passage (more or less irrelevant): http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&sessio n=2&vote=00003
So, in the final passage, the difference was larger: 65 to 28 - but still the non-voters were:
Baucus (D-MT) (having surgery)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Domenici (R-NM) Edwards (D-NC)
Hagel (R-NE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Lieberman (D-CT)
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/25/2004 09:03:32 AM EST
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http://Blog.forclark.com/story/2004/1/13/104013/080
> Two senior Democratic senators, Robert Byrd
> of West Virginia and Ted Kennedy of
> Massachusetts, this week proposed separate
> bills on the matter. Byrd's would require President
> Bush (news - web sites) to seek a fresh vote
> in the U.N. Security Council before attacking Iraq;
> Kennedy's would require new votes in
> Congress before doing so.
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The bills aren't supported by any of the
> four Democratic members of Congress running for
> president: Sens. John Kerry of
> Massachusetts, Joe Lieberman (news - web sites) of
> Connecticut and John Edwards of North
> Carolina, and Rep. Richard Gephardt (news, bio,
> voting record) of Missouri.
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/25/2004 07:34:54 AM EST
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http://robbedvoter.forclark.com/story/2004/1/25/61128/0616
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/25/2004 07:33:39 AM EST
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http://robbedvoter.forclark.com/story/2004/1/25/63853/2133
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/25/2004 07:23:58 AM EST
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http://makethemaccountable.com/podvin/more/040124_StopCrying.htm
1/24/04
"STOP CRYING IN YOUR TEACUPS"
By David Podvin
"Stop crying in your teacups. It isn't going to change. Get over it."
That was the response of John Kerry to a liberal who condemned the theft of the presidency by George W. Bush. If the sentiment sounds familiar, that's because it isn't original. Kerry borrowed his words from America's vapid conservative posse for whom chanting the phrase "Get over it" constitutes a dazzling display of wit. More...
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/25/2004 07:12:11 AM EST
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KING: General Clark, we have another veteran with us tonight, Senator Robert Dole. You may know Senator Dole.
CLARK: Hello, Senator.
KING: Bob, do you have a question for the General?
DOLE: No, I think, you know, it's a tough -- you indicated it's a tough business you're in. Looking at it from my perspective, it seemed to me that John Kerry is a big winner tonight, not just in Iowa but also New Hampshire. I know you can't worry about Kerry's campaign but just as an observer I think he's going to benefit a great deal in New Hampshire. Somebody has to lose. Now, of course, you don't want it to be you but I think it may be you.
CLARK: Senator, let's be honest about this thing. The American people want a change in leadership. They're looking for a candidate that can lead on all of the issues. I'm the only person in this race who has ever done foreign policy and I know all of the domestic issues, too. It's one thing to talk about it, but if you think of foreign policy it's like major league baseball. I'm the only person who has ever played it and I pitch a 95 mile an hour fastball. I've negotiated peace agreements, I've won a war. I'm prepared to help the country that's why I'm running. I'm not worried about John Kerry or anybody else.
DOLE: We're not -- we're discussing here as friends but I think just politically you just became a colonel instead of a general...
CLARK: Well, I don't think that's at all -- Senator, with all due respect, he's a lieutenant and I'm a general. You got to get your facts on this. He was a lieutenant in Vietnam. I've done all of the big leadership. I respect John Kerry and I like him but what I'm going to say it's up to the voters of New Hampshire, South Carolina, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, all across this country, and that's what democracy is about. It's your job to handicap the race. It's my job to go out here and do the best thing I can do for the United States of America and that's what I'm going to do.
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/19/lkl.00.html
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/25/2004 05:32:47 AM EST
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http://home.comcast.net/~brianmcw/negate2.jpg
by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/24/2004 09:11:57 PM EST
But on many issues, Mr. Kerry has often struck more nuanced, politically cautious positions than those broad rankings might suggest. After the Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, Mr. Kerry proclaimed himself "delighted with seeing an institutional shake-up because I think we need one." A few months later, with President Bill Clinton locked in combat with the Republicans, Mr. Kerry voiced some doubts in a closed-door meeting of senators about the wisdom of trying to raise the minimum wage. And as Mr. Kennedy later recalled, he told Mr. Kerry, "If you're not for raising the minimum wage, you don't deserve to call yourself a Democrat."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/politics/campaign/25RECO.html?pagewanted=1&hp
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/24/2004 07:51:13 PM EST
Cheering GOP taking control of Congress
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/politics/campaign/25RECO.html?pagewanted=1&hp
After the Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, Mr. Kerry proclaimed himself "delighted with seeing an institutional shake-up because I think we need one."
