Slam Dunk Mr. President!
The final debate for the 2004 election is history and this time without question there was a clear winner...President George W. Bush! The President was stong, energetic, prepared with facts, figures and statistics and for the first time in this election John Kerry has had to answer for his non-existant record and it has been placed on him as a collar around his neck! Kerry was continually on the defensive and without a record to defend stumbled and mis-informed throughout the debate. Going into the debate many believed that because of the domestic subject matter that the President would be at a disadvantage having to address what are traditionally Democratic issues, medical care, education and jobs. Not only did the President address them he clearly exposed Kerry's "plans" as doomed for failure and outlined a distinct plan and vision for the next four years. He nailed Kerry as a liberal in refering to Ted Kennedy as the, "conservative Senator from Massachusetts" and further exposed his voting record by first labeling him as "out of the mainstream and on the far left bank" then sighting only 5 pieces of legislation sponsored by Kerry in 19 years. To this Kerry replied, "much of my legislation was sponsored under other names!" How convenient! At one point Kerry displayed the height of tacky when in answer to a question about gay marriage he used the Vice President's daughter as an example in yet another attempt to polarize conservatives against Cheney. Even the pundints and talking heads moaned at this! All in all I believe the President's strength, statistical knowledge, continual hammering of Kerry's record and general up-beat demeanor kept Kerry off balance throughout the debate. If the other debates gave the Kerry campaign any momentum, which I believe they did not, this debate countered that and clearly gave the final push toward election day to the President's advantage!
Ken Taylor
Ken Taylor
posted by The Liberal Lie The Conservative Truth | 10:55 PM
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Dick Cheney’s Legislative Accomplishments.... both of them...
“Cheney’s voting record was slightly more conservative than mine.”-- Newt Gingrich, Washington Times, 7/25/2000
George Bush loves to attack John Kerry’s legislative record. But the fact is that 57 bills and resolutions Kerry sponsored passed the Senate and countless others have been improved because of his work, including the Clean Air Act, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the COPS program. In addition, Kerry has taken on the special interests and won. He fought against Newt Gingrich’s anti-labor and anti-environmental regulatory reform, he has fought to raise the minimum wage, and he has worked to shut down wasteful corporate subsidies.
Congressman John Spratt (D-SC), ranking member on the House Budget Committee, made the following remarks on a call today:
“Dick Cheney served in the Congress for 11 years. I served with him for most of these years. In that time, he only passed two bills. One was to build a flood plain on the Colorado River and the other was a bill to help a constituent. What’s even more telling about Dick Cheney’s record in the House is not what he supported but what he opposed – things like Headstart and funding for seniors. It seems pretty dishonest for Bush and Cheney to be attacking John Kerry - who passed 57 bills in the Senate – for his legislative accomplishments.”
Here, for comparison is a summary of the legislation sponsored and passed by Vice President Cheney during his 11 year legislative career.
Cheney’s Legislative Career by the Numbers
96th Congress: 4 Sponsored; 0 became Law
97th Congress: 4 Sponsored: 0 became Law
98th Congress: 8 Sponsored: 0 became Law
99th Congress: 7 Sponsored: 1 became Law
(H.R.1246 : A bill to establish a federally declared floodway for the Colorado River below Davis Dam.)
100th Congress: 7 Sponsored: 1 became Law
(H.R.712 : A bill for the relief of Lawrence K. Lunt.)
101st Congress: 1 Sponsored: 0 became Law
FACTS ON JOHN KERRY’S LEGISLATIVE RECORD
John Kerry has a distinguished legislative record. He and John McCain negotiated an agreement with Vietnam to provide a full accounting for POW-MIAs. He wrote the first bill reducing acid rain. He has repeatedly led the charge in protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from drilling. He has passed legislation that shut down money laundering activities of terrorists and drug traffickers.
President Clinton Praised Kerry for Putting 100,000 COPS on the Street – “When we tried to get past six years of talking tough on crime but nothing happening, rhetoric and rhetoric and rhetoric and no action, to put 100,000 police on the street, to ban deadly assault weapons to pass the Brady bill, the other side, [the Republicans] led the fight against it. But John Kerry helped us pass the toughest, smartest, best crime bill this country has seen in many a day, and the crime rate has gone down for four years in a row. John Kerry was on the right side of history.” [Public Papers of the President: Fall River, MA; 8/28/96]
Democratic Leader Tom Daschle Says Kerry Knows How to Get the Legislative Job Done in the Senate - Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle had kind words for John Kerry’s work on Campaign Finance Reform when he asked Kerry to chair the Democratic Steering Committee: "From our teen-smoking bill to HMO reform and Campaign Finance Reform, John Kerry has demonstrated that he clearly knows how to get the job done. He is a valued and trusted member of our leadership team, and I am pleased he has accepted another term as Chairman of the Steering and Coordination Committee." [Daschle Press Release, 11/19/98]
Even Dr. Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader Says Kerry’s Global AIDS Legislation is a “Huge Step Forward”: “’The Kerry-Frist bill is a huge step forward,” said [current Majority Leader Bill] Frist. “It further validates U.S. leadership in the global effort to end devastation many countries face in the fight against HIV/AIDS’.” [Office of Senator Frist, press release 7/12/02]
57 bills and resolutions John Kerry has sponsored over the years have passed the U.S. Senate. Countless others have been improved because of his work, including the Clean Air Act, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the COPS program.
John Kerry has taken on the special interests and won. He fought against Newt Gingrich’s anti-labor and anti-environmental regulatory reform. He has fought to raise the minimum wage. He has worked to shut down wasteful corporate subsidies. And John Kerry played an important role in the effort to reach a settlement with the tobacco companies that ended marketing to children and teenagers.
The number of bills that bear your name is a poor measure of legislative accomplishment. For example, Ted Kennedy, who most would acknowledge as the most accomplished Democratic Senator in a generation, has had just 9 bills signed into law in 10 years. Of the more than 400 bills Kennedy sponsored in 108th, 105th and 104th Congresses none were signed into law. And Bill Frist, the Republican Majority Leader, has sponsored 88 bills in the 108th Congress and zero have become law. In the 107th Congress, Frist sponsored 52 bills and 1 became law. It was a bill to authorize and urge the President to promote democracy in Zimbabwe.
Do you smoke a lot of crack before you write?
Ken , I agree with you and the president. The one who wrote the article used some very left leaning sources tom d , bill clinton , t kennedy. Of course they would praise kerry's record. There is no mistaking Kerry has been against defense and intelligence. In fact on the intelligence commitee he rarely showed up. The anti bus. and anti energy votes he has made have stopped progres. I work for a company that is considered a small company. The owner is strongly for the President. He said if Kerry is elected and his tax plan is in place the company will go under. Chris Lovelace
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