John Kerry & John Edwards: You’ve GOT to be Kidding

Special to Free Republic ^ | 17 July 2004 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[StarCMC]

Thanks for the ping Arrowhead!

Good read!!

[Freee-dame]

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[kevkrom]

Another great column... however, one nitpick:

Robin Hood, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor

Robin Hood was not a socialist redistribute-the-wealth kind of guy. He was an anti-tax crusader who reclaimed punitive and confiscatory tax revenue from government officials and returned it to the taxpayers.

[MeekOneGOP]

Great article, Congressman Billybob! Thanks.

John Kerry & John Edwards:
You’ve GOT to be Kidding

Excerpt:

I know the nature of personal injury lawyers. According to published reports, Edwards has collected more than $150 million in judgments or settlements in his years as a trial lawyer. He has taken a third of that as fees, or about $50 million. Assume that he prevailed in all those cases on behalf of “little people.” What is the other side of the Edwards equation, the source of the money?

Well, most of that money was collected from doctors, hospitals, and an occasional manufacturing corporation. They sound like fat cats, right? Not so fast, litigation-breath. Such defendants carry insurance. Most of the judgments were paid by insurance companies. And where did they get their money? From premiums, of course.

Who paid those premiums? The doctors, the hospitals, and the companies paid them. But since they don’t print money in their own basements, the funds had to come from somewhere else. They came from the “little people” who go to doctors and hospitals, and who buy products in the marketplace.

So, to put an honest face on Edwards’ career as a trial lawyer, he took $150 million from “little people.” He kept a third of that, and passed two-thirds on to different “little people.” Some Robin Hood that makes. And one of the fringe aspects of Edwards’ litigation was to drive some medical insurance companies out of coverage in some states, and some obstetricians out of the practice of medicine because of high premiums, regardless of whether they’d ever suffered any successful claims.

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[Congressman Billybob]

Your comment was the first direct evidence in almost nine years of weekly columns that my work actually had an influence on the voting decisions of a real citizen. Thank you for sharing that with me (even if it is only figurative).

John / Billybob

[F.J. Mitchell]

Goodun Billybob!

The liar's lies are no longer lying, but rising up to bite them-right on their johnkerry.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Great column, as always, and much appreciated.

I have a feeling that the full tape, when it gets out, will have a similar negative effect as the infamous Wellstone Memorial, where the Democrats put the “fun” back in “funeral.”

I hope your optimism is justified. Perhaps negotiations are even now ongoing. When the price gets right, some anonymous sound technician will come up with a copy of the tape, I hope. Or maybe even a Dem insider can be persuaded to play Judas to the Kerry/Edwards team. It won't be cheap, but it needs to happen.

Remember Joe Wilson? He was in all the papers. He was a hold-over State Department functionary from the Clinton administration who got sent to Nigeria to investigate the claim that Saddam’s Iraq sought to buy “yellow cake” uranium ore there.

Wasn't it Niger, rather than Nigeria?

[marblehead17]

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[Carolinamom]

Thanks for this! Praying for this future headline: BUSH/CHENEY WIN IN LANDSLIDE!

[F16Fighter]

So many targets to bear guns upon -- Well done, John!

[Congressman Billybob]

You're the second person to catch my error of writing Nigeria for Niger (Republic of). I've already made the correction for the national publication of the column. And I also changed the name of the related capitol.

John / Billybob

[Gritty]

Great article, Billybob!

We'll see if these guys can fool enough of the people some of the time to get them successfully past November 2nd - especially with the help of most of the lying American Media in their pocket. Bubba managed it, twice, so it's not an utter impossibility. Quite doable, in fact.

Unfortunately for them, even though both jokers Johns are accomplished liars and have made good livings doing precisely that, they fall well short of the pathological smoothness and charismatic oiliness of bill clinton - although Edwards comes the closest. Kerry is just plain unlikeable. But, all they need do is fool about 11% of that middle 20% of soft-headed voters who tend to vote for the last slogan they heard, liked and somehow remembered when they reached the voting booth.

[SlickWillard]

A while back, you were on the Jerry Agar show [WPTF, 680AM, Raleigh, NC], and you said you were considering a run for office.

Two questions:

1) Did you decide to run?

2) If so, how are things looking for next week's primary?

[Congressman Billybob]

I posted my decision in my column on FR more'n a month ago. I didn't have the volunteers and the funds on hand that I knew from research I needed for a competent campaign. So I did not file for 2004, but instead set up to work for two years and run in 2006.

If you're interested in following/helping my efforts, please visit and sign up through:

this website.

Cordially, John / Billybob

[tinamina]

If you would like to tell "joe Wilson" your thoughts at www.RestoreHonesty.com, the email address you are taken to is restorehonesty@johnkerry.com.

[Graymatter]

And when the friendly reporter at the White House press briefing mentioned how the President had been vindicated, had told the absolute truth---

The press secretary reacted as if to flatulence in church.

If Wilson lied and George Bush didn't, why doesn't the White House press secretary want to acknowledge this?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Chu Gary]

This was a damn fine article. Obviously, it will never see the light of day in any of the "objective" newspapers in the land.

[neverdem]

BTTT, charisma of leftover mashed potatoes.

That's a good line. I hope to remember it!

[Bonaparte]

Excellent work, John!