http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/kerry/ en-us Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:47:31 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420168/posts Iran denies entry to Sen. Kerry By Bridget Johnson - 01/03/10 01:48 PM ET Iranian legislators on Sunday decided to not allow a visit from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.), according to Iranian media. "Members of the Iranian parliament's Foreign Relations Committee (a subcommittee of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission) voiced opposition to the request after studying the issue," Hassan Ebrahimi, head of the committee, told the semi-official Fars News Agency. Several Iranian news outlets reported last week that Kerry had submitted an official request to visit Tehran in an emissary role. Kerry spokesman... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420168/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:47:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418622/posts Phone, cable and broadcast companies can get away with a lot in DC, but they best not stand between a man and his football games. As we noted yesterday, Time Warner Cable and News Corporation are engaged in a retransmission fee fight that could wind up with Fox programming being pulled from Time Warner Cable's channel lineup. This apparently displeases football fan and U.S. Senator John Kerry, who sent a letter to News Corp. warning them that Uncle Sam would step in if Fox programming is disrupted later on today DSL reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418622/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:58:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417202/posts Kerry Reportedly Files Request to Visit Iran Sen. John Kerry has filed a formal request to visit Iran, Iranian news agencies reported Tuesday -- news made public in the middle of the government's bloody crackdown on dissidents that has left more than a dozen dead. Sen. John Kerry has filed a formal request to visit Iran, Iranian news agencies reported Tuesday -- news made public in the middle of the government's bloody crackdown on dissidents that has left more than a dozen dead. While representatives for Kerry have so far not confirmed whether he intends to travel to Tehran, a... FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417202/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:40:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416860/posts Senate Democrats will face a problem when they return in January every bit as tough as crafting the healthcare bill: Assembling a climate and energy package that can be shoehorned into the election-year calendar. Imposing limits on greenhouse gases is a White House and Democratic priority, but it’s stuck in line behind health care, Wall Street reform and jobs legislation. It’s also become increasingly apparent since the Copenhagen climate summit that the Senate will go forward in a dramatically different direction than the House, which approved its own climate bill last summer. Environmentalists familiar with Democratic plans say party leaders... The Hill, Washington, DC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416860/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:09:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416669/posts Mideast: As the death of a dissident cleric spawns renewed protests, Sen. John Kerry seeks to make nice with the oppressors of those who truly deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. How about regime change, Senator? The death toll from the brutal suppression of the latest round of Iranian protests against their government has reached double digits. We wonder if the senator still wants to be the highest U.S. official to visit Tehran since U.S. hostages were held for 444 days by the very same regime. To Kerry and this administration, the problem is one of mistrust and misunderstanding. Come, let... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416669/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:01:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415985/posts Just watched CNN interview the most prominent Mullah shill (except perhaps Trita Parsi), Mahmoud AmirAhmadi, professor at Rutgers University and open supporter of the Islamic regime in Iran dance around the situation and try to warn the USA to hesitate lending support for the anti-regime confrontations IN CASE SOMETHING WORSE REPLACED THE BRUTAL, BLOOD THIRSTY MULLAHS!!!!!! What might that be? What could it be? What does he mean? The MEK? Compared to the Mullah regime they would not necessarily be much better but certainly not worse. And would decimate the Mullahs. This article will have Farsi/Persian videos of events in... AntiMullah & Various Sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415985/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:43:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416085/posts Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) is reporting for duty again and again it is a task for which he is woefully unqualified. The former presidential candidate has suggested becoming the first high-level US emissary to make a public visit to Tehran, Iran since that country's 1979 Islamic revolution. While the Obama administration seems to be in favor of such a trip, the people of Iran who are risking their lives to protest the regime Senator Kerry wants to meet with have a very different opinion. continued TalkingSides.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416085/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:06:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415851/posts The story of the United States and Iran regarding sanctions and pressures reminds me of Woody Allen's joke in the film "Sleeper" after he awakes following 2000 years asleep: My analyst was a strict Freudian and if I'd been going four times a week all this time I'd be cured by now. The proposal to send Senator John Kerry to Iran is one more signal that the Obama Administration seemingly will do anything to avoid, or at least postpone, increasing sanctions on Iran because of that country's nuclear weapons' drive. Such a move can only be taken by Tehran as... Barry Rubin Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415851/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:24:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415248/posts John Kerry lost the Secretary of State sweepstakes to Hillary Clinton, but that hasn't lowered his diplomatic ambitions. The Journal reported Thursday that the Senate Foreign Relations Chairman is mulling a trip to Iran, and with the blessing of the Obama Administration. If the mullahs had any sense, they'd send him a government plane. Beset by almost daily demonstrations by a democratic opposition that has been growing despite beatings and arrests since the stolen June election, Mr. Kerry would arrive from Washington to show the Iranian people that at least someone still favors the regime. He would be the most... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415248/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:28:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413723/posts <p>Teresa Heinz Kerry says she is being treated for breast cancer discovered through a mammogram and wants younger women to keep undergoing the tests annually despite a federal panel’s recent recommendation to reduce their frequency.</p> latimes blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413723/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:54:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414163/posts Kerry Floats Plan to Visit Tehran White House Wouldn't Oppose Trip, First by Top U.S. Official in 30 Years, to Chagrin of Iran's Opposition By JAY SOLOMON WASHINGTON -- Sen. John Kerry has suggested becoming the first high-level U.S. emissary to make a public visit to Tehran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, a move White House officials say they won't oppose. View Full Image Mourners attend the funeral procession of Iranian cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri on Monday. Demotix Images Mourners attend the funeral procession of Iranian cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri on Monday. Mourners attend the funeral... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414163/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:09:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413610/posts BOSTON -- Teresa Heinz, the wife of the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, says she is being treated for breast cancer. Heinz, 71, said she found out in late September that she had cancer in her left breast after having her annual mammogram and doctors later discovered a lump on her right breast. NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413610/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:20:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408261/posts Lurch (Senator John Kerry) and his republican money has a new fundraising letter attacking the American people and his favorite political superstar, Gov Sarah Palin! Interesting tactic. 2010 is going to be an interesting year. John Kerry wrote: “Think GOP obstruction is bad now?” Senator Kerry asks in a fundraising letter sent out Tuesday morning by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “Just imagine what Washington would look like if a bunch of new senators – inspired by Sarah Palin and the tea party crowd – took over.” In recent months, the political right has been energized by Ms. Palin, whose... Citizen Palin 4 President http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408261/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:52:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405076/posts Three Senators released a broadly-worded blueprint of a climate change and energy bill on Thursday afternoon that they believe can win the 60 votes needed to push the bill through next year. The proposal was timed to help persuade delegates to the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen that the Senate is serious about passing a climate bill and not mired in a partisan morass. Senators John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and Joseph I. Lieberman, Independent of Connecticut, sent President Obama a letter on Thursday outlining their plan. The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405076/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:04:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404443/posts Sen. Kerry Will Travel to Copenhagen Global Warming Summit by Commercial Airliner Thursday, December 10, 2009 By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer (CNSNews.com) – Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) will travel to the United Nations global warming conference in Copenhagen, Denmark on a commercial airliner, a senior Kerry aide told CNSNews.com. “The senator expects to travel commercially as he has to past climate conferences,” the aide said, adding that the details of Kerry’s travel arrangement were contingent opon the Senate’s schedule. Published reports have indicated that many public officials have been arriving at the Copenhagen in private jets, meaning they are... CNSnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404443/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:58:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404157/posts Junk Science: The Environmental Protection Agency's sneak attack on the U.S. economy and our freedoms, curiously timed for the opening day of the Copenhagen climate charade, won't go unchallenged. Nor should it. (snip) EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, in a conversation with Sen. James Inhofe, ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has in effect admitted the finding was based on the junk science and data manipulation practiced at Britain's East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU). "She told me that EPA accepted those findings without any serious independent analysis to see whether they were true," Inhofe said. Dr.... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404157/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:26:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401194/posts Sen. Lindsey Graham may be under fire from conservatives back home in South Carolina. But the Republican got a personal assurance from President Obama yesterday that the White House is supporting his efforts to craft a sweeping Senate energy and global warming bill. “The president told me personally he was very open, that nuclear power would be part of the mix, that clean coal would be part of the mix, that he’s for offshore drilling in a responsible way,” Graham said today in describing his Oval Office meeting with Obama. “But we have to have a price on carbon,... theenergycollective.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401194/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 22:37:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400818/posts The nation’s richest senator - the Bay State’s own John Forbes Kerry - has been knocked down a few notches after seeing his fortune sliced by one-third by the fiscal meltdown that ripped down Wall Street. Kerry’s personal net worth plunged from an estimated $336 million in 2007 to $208 million in 2008, according to a study by the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics. The Boston Democrat’s staggering losses dropped him from first to third among the wealthiest senators, trailing Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) “So does this mean Senator Kerry is now arriving in Nantucket by ferry... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400818/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:59:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399846/posts Insults against West Point by MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews are part of a pattern of left-wing denigrations against Americans serving in uniform. It's a motif indicative of an anti-military mind-set that is as dangerous as it is rude. Discussing the West Point audience's response to President Obama's speech about Afghanistan, Mr. Matthews quipped on Tuesday: "I saw a lot of, if not resentment, skepticism. I didn't see a lot of warmth in that crowd out there that the president chose to address tonight. And I thought that was interesting: He went to maybe the enemy camp tonight to make his... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399846/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 01:48:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398205/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senators on Tuesday gave a boost to next week's global environmental summit in Copenhagen, with a senior Democrat advocating more U.S. funding of climate change efforts by poor nations and a key Republican calling for quick action on a U.S. climate bill. Democratic Senator John Kerry, a leading advocate of climate control legislation in Congress, recommended that the Obama administration include $3 billion in next year's budget to help fund efforts to address global warming. This year's funding is about one third that amount. Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the few Republicans willing to negotiate with... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398205/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 04:59:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397889/posts President Obama unveils his new Afghanistan strategy today, and in the nick of time Senator John Kerry has arrived with a report claiming that none of this would be necessary if former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had only deployed more troops eight years ago. Yes, he really said more troops. In a 43-page report issued yesterday by his Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Kerry says bin Laden and deputy Ayman Zawahiri were poised for capture at the Tora Bora cave complex in late 2001. But because of the "unwillingness" of Mr. Rumsfeld and his generals "to deploy the troops required... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397889/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:15:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396563/posts Washington, DC (AHN) - A new Senate report blasts the Bush administration's December 2001 effort to capture or kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the Afghanistan mountains of Tora Bora. The report, written by the Senate Foreign Relations, says bin Laden was within reach on Dec. 16, but he and his "entourage of bodyguards walked unmolested out of Tora Bora and disappeared into Pakistan's unregulated tribal area." The report says most analysts believe he is still there. The report, requested by the committee's chairman, Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, blames the failure to catch or kill bin Laden on... All Headline News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396563/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:40:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2396331/posts LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, Washington, DC, November 30, 2009 DEAR COLLEAGUE: This report by the Committee majority staff is part of our continuing examination of the conflict in Afghanistan. When we went to war less than a month after the attacks of September 11, the objective was to destroy Al Qaeda and kill or capture its leader, Osama bin Laden, and other senior figures in the terrorist group and the Taliban, which had hosted them. Today, more than eight years later, we find ourselves fighting an increasingly lethal insurgency in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan... COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2396331/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:55:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396268/posts WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says. Meth-NBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396268/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:54:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396346/posts Osama bin Laden was within the grasp of US forces in late 2001 and could have been caught if then-defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld hadn't rejected calls for reinforcements, a hard-hitting US Senate report says. The report, set for release Monday, is intended to help learn the lessons of the past as President Barack Obama prepares to announce a major escalation of the conflict, now in its ninth year, with up to 35,000 more US troops. It points the finger directly at Rumsfeld for turning down requests for reinforcements as Bin Laden was trapped in caves and tunnels in a mountainous... France 24 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396346/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:26:13 GMT