[WTF?] KERRY WANTS TO CALL CONGRESS BACK IMMEDIATELY?

[housemouse]

Just heard him say this in a statement on the cable news, seriously! My husband and I just looked at each other and said in disbelief, "did he say what I think he said?"

This guy has been awol so much in the past 4 or 5 months from congress, and now he wants to call congress back immediately? How dumb does he think we are?

I swear, the guy has absolutely no sense of past, present, and future. He speaks whatever sounds good at the moment with no memory of what has gone before, or might be demanded of him in the future.

Are we to assume he will leave the campaign bus and head back to DC? Is he so foolish to think that the pubs wouldn't call a vote on something that would nail him to the floor?

This cinches it, no way can he get the vote of anyone with an IQ higher than room temperature.

 

[housemouse]

One freeper is saying that Kerry only attended 23% of the meetings and that he missed the other 77%!

Can anyone verify that statement? If this is true, he really dug himself a pretty big hole with this statement!

 

[fairbanksb]

So, what does he want to call Congress back for? I'm so up to date, I didn't know they were gone.

 

[housemouse]

They take time off in August, like the Europeens. Kerry is issuing a clarion call to get them all from their lake and beach houses back to steamy, sweaty DC to "do something. I didn't hear him say what, tho.

 

[brake pedal]

wanna bet its for the assault weapon ban? maybe an emergency gay rights session?
or to appropriate money for an air conditioned bus service from mexico city to dallas for the undocumented aliens, er i mean democratic voters?

how about to ban all those nasty guns all together.

 

[1911user]

AWB grandstanding was my first thought. They've been awfully quiet about that lately.

 

[housemouse]

Now I am wondering if it has anything to do with his not having the funds to campaign with this month? Maybe a chance for the senate dems to give him lots of time on the floor for sound-bites?

Maybe a good strategy to offset the rotten statistics he has for being awol so much as well.

 

[potemkin]

Now I am wondering if it has anything to do with his not having the funds to campaign with this month? Maybe a chance for the senate dems to give him lots of time on the floor for sound-bites?

It is politics alright but not what you are thinking.

If Bush calls back Congress then the Democrats can so that Bush is following Kerry's leadership. (Implying Kerry should run the country.)

If Bush calls back Congress, he will have to hang around the White House to give the public the impression he is getting Congress to take care of business. Kerry can bail and have the same poor record he has always had by saying he was being briefed daily and flew back the few minutes it too to vote. Plus, he will say, "It was important that I get to the people and let them know I can run the country better than Bush. Look at what happened. I had to insist that he call COngress back to take care of the important task of protecting every American." (With more draconian laws.-Potemkin)

If Bush doesn't call back Congress then the Democrats can say Bush is putting the country at risk and ignoring the 9/11 Commission report. Bush will say he is doing what he can with Executive Orders to get things moving.

If Bush doesn't call back Congress and something happens then the Democrats will say that the President ignored the safety of the people and many were killed.

Either way, the Democrats have this issue in the bag.

 

[homepark]

Kerry is a loose cannon. Perhaps he'll get so full of himself before the election to leave no doubt about his capabilities to place self interest over national.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Just like the starship Enterprise on SNG is a "galaxy-glass starship", Kerry is a "galaxy-class turd"....

 

[monkeyface]

I am so sick and tired of Kerry.

 

[RobinYyes]

He wants congress back in session, but when are he and little John gonna show up? hmmmmmm

 

[ioujc]

Point of information:

The ONLY vote for which kerry has been present in the past several months is the vote on the Assault Weapons Ban. Otherwise, he has been "unavailable", to the point that the Mass. Governor requested that he resign his Congressional position so that the people he represents can have an actual chance at being fairly represented ....if you need a source fopr that, I can find it, it was in the news about 6-8 weeks ago.

Edited to add......I'm sure Congress is now beginning to be disgusted with kerry's grandstanding too, they, most especially see this for EXACTLY what it is......foolish nonsense, especially given that they are much more aware of his absence when issues come up for vote and his waffling voting record......

Can you IMAGINE being another Senator or Representative and trying to get kerry's support for anything you were working to get passed.....one would never know from one minute to the next how he was going to vote!!!

 

[Ought Six]

ioujc: Here you go....

Romney echoes call for Kerry to step down


Says missed votes cost state millions

By Scott S. Greenberger
The Boston Globe
June 19, 2004

Renewing an attack his lieutenant governor launched earlier this week, Governor Mitt Romney yesterday called on US Senator John F. Kerry to resign immediately, saying Kerry's absence from the Senate as he campaigns for president "has cost Massachusetts tens of millions of dollars."

"We need to be represented, and him missing votes on critical matters is a real problem for us," Romney said yesterday after signing a statewide smoking ban.

In arguing for Kerry's resignation, Romney cited a May 11 Senate vote on federal unemployment benefits, which he said cost Massachusetts $75 million. By a single vote, the Senate decided not to send additional federal dollars to states through next November. As a result, Romney said, Massachusetts will have to pick up the tab for four extra weeks of unemployment benefits, and some 70,000 state residents will receive less assistance.

Over the past year, Romney has been trying to scale back state unemployment benefits by shortening the amount of time people can receive them from 30 weeks to 26 weeks. Massachusetts is the only state that provides benefits for 30 weeks instead of 26.

If Kerry steps down, Romney could appoint a fellow Republican to the seat, boosting GOP strength in the closely divided Senate and giving the temporary senator an incumbent's advantage heading into a special election in November. But Romney denied that party loyalty was his motivation.

"I'm anxious to have a senator in that seat. Of course, I'd love to have someone of my own party, but I want to have someone who represents us," he said.

The Republican criticism of Kerry's voting record surfaced publicly on Tuesday, when Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey, President Bush's campaign cochairwoman in Massachusetts, accused Kerry of shirking his legislative responsibilities by missing 87 percent of the roll calls this year and 64 percent last year.

Kerry spokesman Michael Meehan reiterated the Democratic candidate's determination to retain his Senate seat.

"If Governor Romney is interested in getting unemployment insurance passed, he should call George Bush and his Republican friends in the Senate," Meehan said. "The Republicans are playing politics with it, just as the governor is playing politics with it now."

 

[ioujc]

Thank you

Ought Six......that's the article I was refering to.!!