This just broke: $1 million more!

[ProSense]

Kerry and Kennedy give $1 million to Dems

Snip...

This just broke.

If you haven't seen Jane Hamsher's gracious post, it's important to read.

Kennedy, Kerry give $1 million to Democratic campaign committees

The Associated Press
BOSTON

Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and John Kerry tapped their sizable campaign kitties on Wednesday to donate an additional $1 million to the committees aiming to elect a Democratic Congress.

The Massachusetts Democrats donated $500,000 apiece, half to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and half to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Each works on behalf of the party to elect members to the respective chambers.

Democrats believe they have a chance this fall to regain majority control in each chamber.

"Senator Kennedy believes that November 7th is a critical opportunity to reverse the damage done by the Bush Administration and put this country back on track," said Kennedy spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter.

Kerry spokesman David Wade added: "It's crunch time and he's going the extra mile with Sen. Kennedy to make sure Democrats have the chance to put America on the right track and reverse the radically wrong course these Republicans have taken our country."

Kerry had previously donated $1.015 million to the Senate committee and $500,000 to the House committee, while Kennedy had given $1 million to the Senate committee. Kennedy also has raised over $9 million for his fellow Democrats this cycle, while Kerry has raised over $11 million.

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Oh, and Beachmom follow the Hamsher's link!



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[WildEyedLiberal]

1. God, he is so gracious

Think the vicious ingrates will be satisfied? Neither do I.

You know, this just demonstrates what a gracious and good person John Kerry is. After the lies, smears, and abuse he's endured by the selfish pricks in the peanut gallery who have NO gratitude for the ass-busting he's done over the past year, the only thing I'd ever give to the lot of them ever again would be a big hearty "fuck you."

Yet, he gives anyway. Seriously, can he loan some of his morals and integrity to the REST of the party? He'd still have plenty to spare and God knows everyone else could use some.

[Mass]

3. And they can probably give him PR lessons.

It just looks like he is reacting to the pressure. He could not have done that one week ago, before all this began.

Sorry, what he is doing is awesome, but he certainly needs to improve his PR team. This is absolutely ridiculous.

The only good thing is that all that will be forgotten in a few weeks.

[beachmom]

7. Really? Why is this bad? What was the PR problem?

I mean they lied about him, and we all countered the lies. I thought things looked good BEFORE the $1 million. This is just icing on the cake.

[Mass]

11. The pressure was previsible as soon as Clinton gave her money.

Basically, the $1 million given now seems to say that the pressure was justified (and this is how mydd interprets it, for example).

This is not a big deal, but it seems to me that this pseudo-drama could have been avoided.

Not a very big deal either. Just that they never seem to get the PR quite right, unfortunately, while always doing the right thing in reality.

[WildEyedLiberal]

12. I kind of see Mass's point - it looks kind of like

Kerry is responding to their pressure and that's why he is donating - ie, that they had a point with their "criticism."

However I also think this was a good thing in that it will either close the book on this bullshit "scandal" or prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that those who continue to dog him are hateful ingrates with a clear anti-Kerry agenda.

Indeed on the bright side of all this, it has exposed the haters' true nature. No longer can Kos pretend to have a grain of credibility or objectivity, after his dishonest and vicious post has proven that he has a relentless anti-Kerry agenda regardless of facts or reason.

[Democrafty]

2. Awesome.

How fitting is Jane Hamscher's title, btw?

[blm]

10. Will someone PLEASE post Hamsher's great rant about Kerry, Ned and Joe

in GD-P? And excerpt would be great, too. I want many people to see it - and especially the ones who have me on ignore....heheh

[Mass]

4. Can somebody post this here -

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/john-kerry-is-fundraising-right-now.html

[beachmom]

13. That just ended up in my diary -- some nasty commenter put it there

You know what -- I've just had it. I'm thoroughly confused and my update looks like shit because I don't know how to update a dailykos diary. I shouldn't have bothered. Now all this crap is hitting.

Was today just for nothing?

[Mass]

14. And this is BS because KAP could not help Kerry in a

presidential campaign. This is a PAC that is setup to help him to campaign for other Democrats, as I understand it.

[Mass]

15. Not too surprisingly, TeresaInPA is not happy.\nt

[ProSense]

20. She has math issues!

From campaign $14 million
Raised $12 million
Contributed: $13 million (50%)

Senator Kerry has been spending down campaigning, so the figure is closer to 70%

[Democrafty]

21. According to the AP:

"The most recent report filed for the “Friends of John Kerry” committee showed the senator had $8 million in the bank."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/10/25/kennedy_kerry_give_1_million_to_democratic_campaign_committees/

[fedupinBushcountry]

22. She is nothing but a bitch

she hates Kerry now as much as she hated him in '03. She is an extreme Deaniac and I remember her well from the Dean blog and her turd droppings on the Kerry blog.

You know her and others like her are the one's that helped bring Dean down, and whomever they support in '08 they'll do the same. You know it got so bad with their hatred that I sent an e-mail to Joe Trippi and told him that crap like this had to stop. I was amazed that he actually told them to stop it, and I appreciated that immensely, he does have smarts, but you know these same hateful idiots continued and shot back at Trippi too.

They are immature and have an agenda, destroy anything that they don't agree with, they are typical trolls that you see no matter if its politics or any other discussion going on.

[WildEyedLiberal]

16. You've got to be kidding me

Aravosis is worse than shit. That's a big fucking lie and he knows it.

[Mass]

17. John has a beef with Kerry and will not give him credit for anything.

[whometense]

28. It's the gay marriage thing.

And a deep-seated grudge.

[WildEyedLiberal]

19. I left Aravosis a nasty message

The good news is that a good number of the commenters on these threads - even at decidedly Kerry-UNfriendly places such as Americablog and DKos - are fed up with this bullshit. They can plainly see that this is just pure HATRED of Kerry not based in reality and even if they aren't Kerry fans they are tired of the dishonesty and the vitriol and the pure irrational viciousness.

I think this smearjob is backfiring in a bad way on the bastards who keep pimping it. The only people making snide remarks are people who hated Kerry to begin with and I have seen several people say that they are considering Kerry much more strongly now because they think it's crap that he is the target of such an obvious swiftboating vendetta.

[kerrygoddess]

5. Jane's post is great

good to see. On the Dem Daily too - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=4558

[beachmom]

6. Just tried to edit my diary -- but I can't make it work well

Oh well -- this is amazing. I didn't expect this. Wow. I hope my diary didn't make things worse -- it didn't -- right?

[Mass]

8. You did what you thought was necessary to help Kerry and this is what

matters.

All this will be forgotten in a few weeks anyway and most people did not even bite in the story, except for those who did not believe in Kerry anyway.

We will get a few diary on how he ceded to pressure, then something else will happen.

This was a great effort.

[ProSense]

18. I don't think it matters!

They would then have to admit the call was only to Kerry and not the rest of the Democrats. Let's face it, Kerry has still done more. So he did even more to support Democratic candidates, who will step up next? Are they going to continue publicly calling on other Democrats to step up?

Some people would need to cough up a few million!

We could go diving through campaign filings www.fec.gov to see who has how much!

[karynnj]

23. The other thing to consider is that it helps

because Kerry is NOT one to blow his own horn. Only when questioned, did he lay out ALL that he was doing. I didn't know how much he directly gave to campaigns and certainly didn't know that he and Teresa gave money as well (though I'm not surprised.) Now, the numbers for Kerry look amazing and it's clear how many places he's been. (The Blue Mass interview was utterly awesome - he was so obviously honest and frank in his comments.)

In contrast, the fact that no one condemned the attack - in the party or the media - and that he did get the facts out quickly is all good. It likely does signal that some one - not necesarilly a rival - wants him out badly. I seriously doubt if this is the last attack.

[WildEyedLiberal]

9. I thought your diary was completely appropriate

I kind of agree with Mass in that it does kind of look like he is "giving in" to their vicious and hateful demands - especially considering that you know there won't be one smidgen of gratitude from any of the wrathful hordes for this donation. But maybe since he did it with Kennedy it won't look as much like responding to pressure as just a joint gift from the Mass. Senators.

[TayTay]

24. I think it should have been a challenge grant

Massachusetts throws down and challenges any other State's Senators to do the same.

Ah, Kos, Aravois (sp) and all the others can bite me. If they think they can bully Kerry supporters and get them to back off, they plainly have another think coming.

Nice work. This was fought. The haters were there, but so were a lot of defenders. That matters a lot.

[MH1]

25. Didn't you just love that silly troll rating lob gave you?

He got a few doughnuts himself for pulling that shit.

Just so you know, that really was an excellent post, too. I wish I could write snark like that!

[TayTay]

27. I was very rushed and that was the last thing I wrote

before I dashed out the door to go home. I had a followup post on him in my head but never got to write it. (The time had past for it when next I went on DKos and it was time to let the thread go.)

I wish I had had five more minutes, cuz I knew the snark would come.

LOB: Holder of Two Masters Degrees in Liberal Guilt. (Cuz one is never enough.)

[ProSense]

26. AP and NYT

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061026/ap_on_el_ge/senators_donations_1

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/us/politics/26donate.html

[ginnyinWI]

29. TPM has a nice comment too--

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010583.php