How Do They Say It in French?
Now John Kerry wants to be a tough guy?
Kerry, who in 2004 was so spectacularly inept in responding to sleazy attacks against him that "swift boat" is now commonly used as a verb, wants to lead a filibuster against the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. According to Kerry (see story here), senators need to fight for "those people who count on us to stand up and protect them."
Kerry felt so strongly about this that he made his call for a filibuster from Davos, Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum with Bill Gates, Bono, and a bunch of other people who, like Kerry, do not need anyone to stand up and protect them because they are all so freaking rich.
Of course, Kerry is hardly going to state the obvious: He blew his chance to keep Samuel Alito off the Supreme Court when he managed to lose the 2004 election. Then, as now, he simply doesn't have the votes.
Kerry, who in 2004 was so spectacularly inept in responding to sleazy attacks against him that "swift boat" is now commonly used as a verb, wants to lead a filibuster against the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. According to Kerry (see story here), senators need to fight for "those people who count on us to stand up and protect them."
Kerry felt so strongly about this that he made his call for a filibuster from Davos, Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum with Bill Gates, Bono, and a bunch of other people who, like Kerry, do not need anyone to stand up and protect them because they are all so freaking rich.
Of course, Kerry is hardly going to state the obvious: He blew his chance to keep Samuel Alito off the Supreme Court when he managed to lose the 2004 election. Then, as now, he simply doesn't have the votes.
posted by FCB at 1:41 PM
2 Comments:
Okay, so this is the easy slap around the rich loser guy. I want to know why the Dems are allowing rich loser guy to lead them on a futile fight to demonstrate how they couldn't possibly choose the right battle if their lives depended on it. Why fight this?? There's the NSA-domestic spying thing (together with the defense, by the "original intent of the Framers" folks - that is, (let's all whine together) this law is sooooo old, it can't possibly be effective or relevant in this post 9/11 world). There's the unbelievable disaster of the Medicare prescription drug program, and its impact on the elderly poor and disabled - which story only seems to be covered by newspapers and only then as some kind of human interest story. There's the health care crisis more generally. Together with the continuing demise of blue collar jobs and the lack of a living minimum wage. There's the truth in New Orleans - what happened and what is actually happening. And all of this before we ever head offshore and into Iraq and Afghanistan. This guy decides, out of all of the potential issues he's going to beat up those Republicans on, to take a stand against a Supreme Court nominee with no real baggage (thus, his success at the hearings) except that he's anti-abortion. And that's the one thing Kerry probably won't talk about during this tantrum . . . um, filibuster. Speaking of abortion, why doesn't anyone address what this country was like for women before Roe v. Wade? For the anti-abortion crew, it's all about the "unborn" - why doesn't someone make it about the women who will suffer if abortion were not available. Those women who can't get healthcare for the children they have; who can't find jobs; who are trying to raise children on the minimum wage; who are sending their children to schools where those kids aren't learning what they need to learn to advance.
While it may seem unfair to lay this all at the feet of John Kerry, the Democratic party should shut him up, otherwise, none of these issues will ever see the light of day.
John - just stop. Or at least show that you have brain in your head and be relevant, man! There's power in relevance.
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And to think I voted for this man!
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