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.
Yeah, Kerry, and Obama tops that list.
He’s so out of touch with reality, he probably thinks he went to Cambodia for Christmas...
I like the idea of Untied States.
Has potential....
So, how’d you vote on CCB, Lurch?
First job, Untie Massachusetts, and let ‘er float away...
What exactly did you negotiate or give up John? You didn’t even want to pay taxes on your friggin yacht!
Pass the Grey Poupon, John. Thurston Howell had more perspective and knowledge of real life than does this yachting jerk.
How can we have a Senator who committed Treason by assisting our enemies, essentially helping the USA lose a war; serve in the Senate for 30 or more frick’n years?
I’ll never understand. Heinlein’s crazy years.
Shocking! Seeing as approval was so amazingly high during the healthcare debate (yeah, the one that CREATED the Tea Party). What a sclub this guy is.
“The problem is not the institution, it’s the people,”
The problem is that the Congress has been taxing and spending this country into the ground, and most Congressmen are willing to continue to do so.
You mean Reid?
Hey Kerry, if you don't like the crowd you hang with, get the hell out.
HEY!!! I LIVE HERE! (But I do understand where you're coming from.)
I swear, Mr. Kerry is such a huge repository of intellectual ennui and stupidity.
In that regard, he truly is a national treasure.
Putz.
To paraphrase Ann Coulter... If the choice is between stalemate and socialism, I'll take stalemate every time. I believe the Democrats are just trying to make opposition to their agenda seem negative and unpleasant... Well John-of-the-long-face we are going to keep on even if you are offended...
“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.”
“The problem is not the institution, it’s the people,”
Did I mention how much I love John Kerry? Would this be called a Freudian Slip. A misquote. Or a clear representation of JK’s dogma.
No wonder he hates the “Tea party”! It’s of the people!
So is he blaming the Senate Democrats or the White House?
/sarc
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