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Sen. Kerry: Lawmakers who refuse to negotiate to blame for low approval
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Posted on 08/05/2011 11:25:32 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Sen. Kerry: Lawmakers who refuse to negotiate to blame for low approval By Daniel Strauss - 08/05/11 01:43 PM ET

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) blamed legislators who refused to negotiate on increasing the debt ceiling for Congress's record-low approval ratings.

"I resent the fact that a small group of people in the Untied States Congress are painting the entire Congress with this broad brush because of their unwillingness to do what many of us are prepared to do," Kerry said Friday on MSNBC. "We need adults — thoughtful people who are willing to come to the table and negotiate.

"The problem is not the institution, it's the people," Kerry continued. "And it's a small group of people who don't negotiate. If you're not willing to negotiate, nobody can make something happen. We had a group of people who actually argued for default."

Kerry's comments come after a new New York Times/CBS News poll found that only 14 percent of registered voters think members of Congress should be reelected and 74 percent say they don't deserve another term.

The poll came a few days after legislators passed a debt-ceiling increase package that raised the debt limit by $2.1 trillion while cutting $1 trillion over 10 years and setting up a committee to find an additional $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction. The legislation's passage marked the end of contentious and oftentimes frustrating negotiations on raising the debt ceiling.

Throughout the negotiations, some legislators complained that conservative House Republicans had been holding up a debt-limit increase agreement by refusing any reasonable offer and pushing Republican leaders to appease their right flank in the negotiations.


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To: Sub-Driver

Haven’t you heard? Hasn’t anyone told you? Kerry has a seriously seared brain!!!


21 posted on 08/05/2011 12:06:28 PM PDT by immadashell
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To: Sub-Driver
Leftist drones like John 'the gigolo' Kerry are so predictable that I sometimes know exactly what they'll say before they say it. This is one of those times. The very low opinion of congress is based on a number of factors but John "I served in Viet Nam...and I have film that proves it" Kerry is using the abysmal numbers as an opportunity to 'demonize' the TEA party-affiliated Representatives who correctly reflected their constituents deep concern over the path our national economy is taking and voted 'no' on the flawed 'debt ceiling' bill just signed into law by Obama. He is not alone, of course. The left (and the GOP establishment) are scared to death of the TEA party and what it represents. Average Americans that are fed up with Washington's unending tax-and-spend ways and the plethora of government rules and regulations that are strangling business and rapidly encroaching on Americans private lives; their parenting decisions and almost everything they do. That is true grass roots democracy and the political class loathes and fears it because it threatens to bring down the house of cards so painstakingly built by congress over the past 100 years. For most of us, this awakening and potential for real change is long overdue.
22 posted on 08/05/2011 12:06:46 PM PDT by Jim Scott ( "Game On!" - Sarah Palin)
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To: Sub-Driver

Haven’t you heard? Hasn’t anyone told you? Kerry has a seriously seared brain!!!


23 posted on 08/05/2011 12:08:51 PM PDT by immadashell
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To: Sub-Driver

yeah, right Lurch, ratings for Congress have been in the toilet for a long time and the socialist Demagogues are the prime reason (along with spineless gutless RINOs)


24 posted on 08/05/2011 12:10:39 PM PDT by Enchante (Are there any honest politicians in Washington, DC??)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Mr Served in Vietman for 12 weeks:

Mark Rubio straightened your sorry ass out when you tried that “negotitate” clap trap in the Senate...remember Catsup Boy???? He said one cannot negotiate with someone who has NO PLAN.


25 posted on 08/05/2011 12:12:36 PM PDT by Moby Grape (Formerly Impeach the Boy...name change necessary after the Marxist won)
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To: Jim Scott

As the Dems slowly realize that the Senate is lost to them next year..watch for the level of hyteria to increase exponentially..


26 posted on 08/05/2011 12:20:17 PM PDT by ken5050 (Should Chris Christie RUN in 2012? NO, but he should WALK 3 miles a day.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Kerry’s been snortin the ketchup again.


27 posted on 08/05/2011 3:36:00 PM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: Maceman

Ok, we’ll let you hop off, just make sure that A$$HOLE Kerry is onboard :)


28 posted on 08/06/2011 12:58:36 AM PDT by onona (I stand with SARAH !)
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>> Kerry: “We need adults — thoughtful people who are willing to come to the table and negotiate. “

I thought it was imprudent to negotiate with “terrorists”.


29 posted on 08/06/2011 1:01:23 AM PDT by Gene Eric (May our dreams converge for a free and prosperous nation.)
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