Posted on 05/18/2004 10:56:19 AM PDT by areafiftyone
The one-vote defeat of an extension of unemployment benefits last week has sparked fear among Democrats that Republicans have developed a legislative model that will cast Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) repeatedly in a bad light before the election. |
At least one Republican senator, Elizabeth Dole (N.C.), was prepared to switch to a no vote to make sure the measure was defeated even if Kerry returned to cast his vote, a Democrat charged. |
Another reason why Senators (regardless of Party) make poor Presidential candidates.
Paranoia abounds within the Leftist machine. If Kerry misses a crucial vote on a subject he's been bitching and moaning about for months, it's Bush's fault. Now I've heard it all....
The Democrats say they suspect the Republicans engineered the one-vote margin, and the incident underlines how both parties are expected to use the legislature to tarnish their opponents.
You can't herd cats and you can't get republicans to coordinate this closely.
They admit this is what they do and now accuse the republicans.
Drat - I did a search on the title "We Walked Right Into It" and didn't realize that someone posted it leaving out those words in the title. That is why it didn't come up with my search!
That's happened to me before, too. Once I posted an article that I was (rather huffily) told was actually posted several times before. No one bothered to put the right key words in. I finally figured that's why there is the "add key words" function that I'd never noticed before.
Hilarious. Who were the other 40 Senators that voted "no"?
If this is true, it's about flipping time that the Republicans started playing by the same rules the Democrats have been playing by for years.
Optimally, they'd just do their danged jobs and stop worrying about external politics-- but I think, as a country, we're WAY beyond that point.
More power to them. The Dems are just pissed because they didn't think of it first.
It seems to me the dems might be right for once and maybe the conservative side should take advantage of this hole. Except that the conservative side refuses to take ANY advantages it is given--they seem to have this honor thing going on. Actually, it's sort of like us fighting terrorists.
Fuggedaboudit
"@#*+ 'em if they can't get over it, you tried; they failed to use the correct posting proticol.
It got front-page national press?? Where? Kerry's home country of France?? The thing was barely mentioned from this news junkie's perspective.
I know. It was only mentioned by a few select media outlets. I am hoping that Bush will put that missed vote in a new TV ad.
Kerry could have taken this issue away simply by showing up and doing his job. If he had, there would be no way those nasty Republicans could have trapped him. End of story.
Whoo, those wascally wepublicans are at it again!
I don't get it, how do the republicans make any hay out of the story that John Kerry would have been help the poor unemployed if he had been here, but he wasn't so we screwed the poor bast@rds? And that is exactly how it would be spun by the left.
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Vast Right Wing Committee meeting next month...
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Now imagine when the Federal Marriage Amendment comes up for a vote before the election...it will make kerry the pink poodle.
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