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Religions > Atheism |
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"Liberals Are Always Cowards" |
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13 Aug 2004 09:53:26 AM |
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Kerry liberal quotient!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Kerry liberal quotient!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yup, Kerry is the most liberal. Why does he try and pass himself
off as "moderate"? Isn't he proud of his accomplishments?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20040301-085725-5267r
National Journal, the non-ideological, authoritative weekly magazine
that covers Washington politics and policy, issued its congressional
vote ratings for 2003 last week. Not surprisingly, Massachusetts Sen.
John Kerry, who is increasingly looking like a cinch to be his party's
presidential nominee, found himself in familiar territory. Once again,
Mr. Kerry has staked out the far-left fringe on the National Journal's
liberal-conservative continuum.
On a scale that ranges from 0 to 100, Mr. Kerry compiled a composite
liberal score for 2003 of 96.5, the highest in the Senate. He eclipsed
proud liberals like Paul Sarbanes (94.7) of Maryland, Barbara Boxer
(91.2) of California, Tom Harkin (89.3) of Iowa and the Senate's
liberal lion, Edward Kennedy (88.3), his Massachusetts colleague. It
was the fourth time in his 20-year Senate career that Mr. Kerry
compiled a composite voting record that was unsurpassed in its
liberalism by any of the other 99 members of the Senate.
Each year, National Journal selects dozens of key votes (62 for the
Senate in 2003) and divides them among three categories of issues:
economic, social and foreign policy. On economic votes, Mr. Kerry tied
with six other Democrats to claim the highest ranking of 93. It was
the third year in a row that Mr. Kerry established himself among the
select, small group whose members were cumulatively ranked as the most
liberal in the Senate on economic matters.
Because Mr. Kerry spent much of last year campaigning for the
Democratic presidential nomination, he did not cast enough official
votes to obtain a specific ranking in the social and foreign-policy
categories. (Suffice to say that the votes that he did cast were
sufficiently to the left that his composite score still placed him at
the top of the liberal scale.) Moreover, in 16 of the social and
foreign-policy votes that Mr. Kerry missed, he announced his position
on the issue. And according to tabulations by CQ Weekly (another
non-ideological journal covering Congress), Mr. Kerry's publicly
announced position was identical to the vote cast by Mr. Kennedy on 14
of those occasions, or 88 percent of the time. It should also be noted
that during 10 years of Mr. Kerry's Senate career, including 2002, not
a single senator was ranked more liberal than Mr. Kerry on
social-issue votes. In addition, regarding CQ's separate survey of
"key votes" in 2003 on which Mr. Kerry either cast a vote or publicly
announced his position, it was identical to Mr. Kennedy's vote 100
percent of the time.
When questioned at Sunday's Democratic debate in New York City about
reclaiming his distinction as the most liberal U.S. senator in 2003,
Mr. Kerry called it "a laughable characterization" and "the most
ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life." He asserted that "labels
are so silly in American politics." But Mr. Kerry often indulges in
ascribing "right-wing" or "far-right" labels to President Bush. For
example, on what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 75th
birthday, Mr. Kerry accused the president of threatening civil rights
on behalf of right-wing ideologues." Apparently, Mr. Kerry doesn't
have anything against labels. He just doesn't like the "liberal"
label.
In fact, the recent analyses of 2003 votes by National Journal and CQ
Weekly clearly confirm what Mr. Kerry has spent two decades doing in
the Senate -- and that is establishing himself as one of that body's
most liberal members. If Mr. Kerry doesn't like the votes selected by
National Journal and CQ Weekly, perhaps he should look at the vote
ratings compiled by Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), the
premier, self-styled liberal organization in America. Based on the 20
votes each year that it considers to be the most important to
liberals, ADA assigns a "liberal quotient" to each member of Congress.
Mr. Kerry's career "liberal quotient" is a solid 92 percent. That
ranks him higher than Mr. Kennedy (90 percent), establishing Mr. Kerry
irrefutably as the "liberal senator from Massachusetts." No wonder Mr.
Kerry is running as fast as he can from the liberal record he has
spent 20 years compiling. It is a record this page will be
meticulously reviewing as the campaign moves forward.
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Liberals Hate America!
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| User: "Rafael Block" |
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| Title: Re: Kerry liberal quotient!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
17 Aug 2004 07:59:46 PM |
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Liberals Are Always Cowards wrote:
Kerry liberal quotient!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yup, Kerry is the most liberal. Why does he try and pass himself
off as "moderate"? Isn't he proud of his accomplishments?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20040301-085725-5267r
National Journal, the non-ideological, authoritative weekly magazine
that covers Washington politics and policy, issued its congressional
vote ratings for 2003 last week.
blah blah stale out of context annalysis deleted blah blah blah
....if only Kerry WERE as liberal as you yahoos claim...THEN we would be TALKIN'!
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