Kerry's record attacked on House floor by enraged Republicans

[Catt03]

Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Tex.) began the attack by comparing Kerry to Jane Fonda by stating: "He's called Hanoi John."

Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (Calif.), said; "We do not need a Jane Fonda as commander in chief."

Rep. Jim McDermott (Wash.), responded to the attacks( alluding to Bush) with; "But if you were in the National Guard and you didn't show up, you were AWOL for a whole year, you've got real nerve to start an attack on John Kerry's character," McDermott said. "Some people were simply not available; they never showed up for their flight physical."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34817-2004Apr22.html

Good grief!

[rocktivity]

1. Hanoi Jane, meet Baghdad Don

:headbang:
rocknation

[joefree1]

2. Kerry must be really scaring the repukes

It's a little early for these shrill attacks. So long you rethuglican boobs.

[lebkuchen]

5. MSNBushCo is touting that youth are not voting for Kerry

If true, then they'd better start packing their bags. They ARE going to be drafted.

[opihimoimoi]

7. Its amazing what propaganda can do for ya, isn't it?

These guys got some nerve. Always going neg. What about what they do thats so POSITIVE??? Seems the Pubs strong point is to whine and complain, distracting from the real issues. Win by going neg is not a good way to choose a Leader. Just look at the evidence sitting in the Oval Office. Damn.

This Nation needs to go Positive and that lies not in the direction of the Pub Party. Helllloooooo??

[lebkuchen]

3. Here's enraged, "Duke", from our military (which your district is full of)

"exasperated" also applies. Our forces are eating their own now. Good going.

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=21765

Time to come home

A month after I found out I was pregnant, I found out my husband was being deployed to Iraq for a year.

During the first six months of the deployment I had almost every pregnancy complication you could think of, one being that my water broke at 25 weeks. I was put in the hospital for three miserable, lonely weeks. My water finally sealed itself enough for me to be released home on bed rest. I ended up having to go to the States.

I had my baby a month later, on Sept. 20, four weeks early. I was thrilled to find out all my doctors’ worries that my baby would be born deformed were wrong. He was small but perfect. My husband was shocked when he called my mother and she told him he had a son.

When my son turned 3 months old, I find out that he had a neuroblastoma, a type of cancer that forms tumors all over the body and that, in most cases, is found after the cancer is terminal.

A week and a half after we found out, they had the baby scheduled for emergency surgery. I had sent a Red Cross message to my husband the day I found out, but he had only received it when I gave him the dispatch number and he had them look. They told him that someone had received it a few days before and had forgotten to give it to him. Luckily, my husband made it home in time to see our son before they put him to sleep.

The surgery went very well and last month they released us to come back to Germany to be treated here so we could be home when my husband returned. We got in the day before they extended them.

My son cries every day for his dad. He’s been through a lot for only being 29 weeks old. He only wants to be around his daddy and I can’t give him that. I understand, somewhat, why my husband’s being extended, but my son and all the other children don’t. The guys are tired and worn out and just want to be home with their families. I’m just one of the many people wanting our soldiers, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, mommies and daddies home. I’m very proud of my husband, but it’s time he comes home.

Jessica Bailey
Bumholder, Germany

Exended twice

This is for all you active-duty soldiers and family members that are yelling and screaming about being extended. We all feel really bad for you and your families, but get over it.

I don’t know if you read the paper much but Reserve and National Guard units were extended six moths ago, making our tours 13 to 17 months for Operation Iraqi Freedom. If you read the April 16 paper, we have been extended again (two times). If you read the list of troops to be extended, look how many of us (Reserve and National Guard units) are on the list. My unit, the 211 Transportation Company, is not even on there. We were told just 24 hours ago. That will make our tour 21 months for us so-called “weekend warriors.”

So when you go through a 21-month tour, let me know and all of us Reserve and National Guard will feel sorry for you. And don’t think because we are in Kuwait that we have not done missions in Iraq. We have.

Sgt. Steve Garza
Kuwait Naval Base

[LoZoccolo]

4. The Senate is a little bit more moderate than the House, isn't it?

Just a little, right?

[lebkuchen]

9. "Duke" district nearly borders B-1 Bob Dornan's

the former psycho-boy of Orange County who beats his wife. The water in San Diego and Orange Counties isn't safe to drink.

[stevedeshazer]

6. Politics 101

When you have NO record to run on, you attack your opponent's character. These radical right munchkin congressmen are being sent out as attackers. I've never heard of them, but I'll bet anyone here the amount of my next two paychecks that both these crackers are in safe Repub districts.

Now I will go check and report back.

[LoZoccolo]

8. Enraged at what I wonder?

Enraged that some of them were making a big deal out of his record and then he was like "here" and they didn't find anything?

Bahahahaha!

[madmax]

10. Is this SOP during an election year

for the House to bash a candidate? I can't remember what 'normal' political years were like. These last 3 years have fried the few remaining brain cells I had leftover from the 60's. :evilgrin:

[unblock]

13. it does happen, but NOT explicitly

it's fair game for congressmen to talk about other active congressmen. it's somewhat less cool to talk about members of the other house, unless they sponsored a bill you're currently debating.

in any event, though, on the house floor you don't just rail on a presidential candidate. they should rail on kerry only on the basis of his being a current senator. under that pretense, however, they can put their negative spin forth.

but just coming out and saying, "we don't need ... as commander-in-chief" is not cool, and i think, unprecedented.

[unblock]

11. they're complaining about kerry's youthful indiscretions, but bush's ...

... indiscretions get a pass.

after volunteering for combat dute and earning multiple medals, kerry was testifying before congress against the vietnam war, at a time when bush would crawl out of his bottle only long enough to snort some coke, drive drunk, challenge his father to a fistfight, train to fly obsolete planes, refuse to show up for ordered physicals, skip out on tang duty, and forge the connections that would someday lead to spectacular business failures such as not being able to find oil in texas.

the republicans carefully compared the two records and came out against the guy who served his country with honor and distinction.

these people are beyond disgust, beyond reason, and beyond redemption.

november 2004 message to republicans: "YOU'RE FIRED!"

[Stephanie]

12. Yup. We were watching it this morning

Unbelievable.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1454935

[OneBlueSky]

14. bottom line: Kerry went, Bush didn't . . . end of argument . . . n/t

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[madrchsod]

15. hey fuck heads-----------

your boy got a ----SILVER STAR?-------ask your boy where he was during the war-----DOES- HE -HAVE A SILVER STAR????????? SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!!
i just got off work and felt like yelling for a good cause

[Oilwellian]

17. Bravo! Bravo!

I couldn't have said it better. :D :thumbsup:

[DieboldMustDie]

18. Bu$h may not have won the Silver Star...

but I hear he had a really nice silver coke spoon. :evilgrin:

[RoyGBiv]

16. Fargin Fluffelnorb

I dunno what that means either. These people make me type in tongues I guess.

The unmitigated gall of these people using their time on the floor to address absolutely nothing that has anything to do with any of their daily business is ... amazing. In the real world, we generally have two words for people who spend all their time at work not doing the jobs they're paid to do: You're fired.

[Must_B_Free]

19. The wailing and gnashing of teeth has begun

Looks like the black box scam is collapsing.

Best part is, we took notes on everything and we're going to hold you accountable, repukes!

[rucky]

20. They should build a sandbox on the right side of the house floor.

n/t

[calimary]

21. I think, deep down, they're enraged because Kerry's military record

so dwarf's little caesar's. Every time one of them bellyaches about Kerry's medals, I shout to my TV - "and YOUR medals are - ?" "And YOUR service record is - ? "And YOU served in - ?"

Hee hee - guess who I'M calling in the morning (with that TOLL FREE number - hint-hint-hint...)!

[Old and In the Way]

22. Are they complaining that Kerry helped to stop the carnage in VietNam?

Not enough soldiers died there? I wonder what their threshhold would have been to join Kerry and Hanoi Jane....100,000 Americans? 250,000? Are they arguing we should still be there?

Why do Republicans like to support senseless wars? Why are they supporting an AWOL pResident who lied about the causus belli and is destroying this country at home and our reputation abroad?

These is really a sad display. I think we are watching the endtimes for the Republkican Party....it's going to be very, very ugly before it's over.

I wonder if they realize how these attacks will influence undecideds and independents. Do they really think these kind of attacks against someone who did his duty in a classically honorably way while the Idiot-in-Charge used his daddy's contacts to avoid his, will help Bush?

[Chomskyite]

23. This is why senators and cabinet people

. . . call the House a bunch of Yahoos.

[berry]

24. Even CNN (Aaron Brown, anyway) was shocked.

Brown started his program with a statement registering his disgust with these attacks. I think he only mentioned Johnson by name, though. Lately, CNN has seemed to slip over to the dark side, so this defense of Kerry was welcome (if surprising).

[Must_B_Free]

25. I am really only seeing the good side of CNN

it's bascially colored by the host.

Brown is a godsend for us lately, so is Lou dobbs. Even Greenfield delivered a knockout punch about McCarthy tonight. The similarity to Bush was unignorable.

Blitzer and the other whores do their thing, but I don't happen to be watching at those times.