Kennedy: Bush lied (Kerry's pantload speaks)

Newsday ^ | 4/6/2004 | DEBORAH BARFIELD BERRY

[playball0]

Newsday is more sussinct. Teddy meltdown. Kerry endorses these statements to breakthrough the media clutter to put out his message. Too bad nobody is listening.

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TED ALERT!!

[PeaceCorpsGuy]

Been out of the country for so long that I almost forgot that Teddy normally drinks everytime before going onto the Senate floor or giving an interview to the press.

[Susannah]

"Kennedy, a leader on health issues, said Bush, desperate to claim a win on Medicare, pushed a law that is a "raw" deal for seniors and a "sweetheart" deal for drug and insurance companies."

Kennedy's a "leader" on health issues and we still don't have the health care "crisis" solved? Meanwhile, which companies will get a "sweetheart deal" from what Kerry is peddling and how much will it cost taxpayers?

[river rat]

Ah yes.....This from that lying, drunken, famous "teller of truth", defender of pervert impeached president and protector of young women -- except those submerged in his car for hours before he reports the accident....

A pox on his ass..

Semper Fi

[jagrmeister]

Why are Ted Kennedy's comments newsworthy? The press covers his uninformed personal attacks as if a world leader had spoken. Kennedy is a far-left, corrupt politician who has accomplished next to nothing and has traded off his brother's famous name for far too long. A "leader on health issues"? More like an advocate of further confiscating income of working Americans for government boondoggles. I'm sure the Democrat-operated media agrees though.

[glock rocks]

The years have not been good to the Oldsmobile diver.

[kcvl]

Kerry said on Jan. 19 that he would "happily release any lobbyist meeting I've ever had," but he has yet to do so. Cutter said Kerry will not release records until he compiles data on every meeting over the past 19 years, which will be a "pretty lengthy process." Kerry will not release it "piecemeal," she said.

"John Kerry has been withdrawing money from the special interest bank for his entire career and now -- because it's the popular thing to do -- he wants us to believe that he's going to close the account and go after the people that have funded his political career," said Jay Carson, a spokesman for former Vermont governor Howard Dean.

"The note of reality is he has been brought to you by special interests," said Charles Lewis of the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity, a watchdog group that has closely studied the senator's relationship with special interests. "It's very hard [for Kerry] to utter this rhetoric without some hollowness to it."

"I think it's harder for someone like Kerry to take on" Bush over special interests "because he's taken money . . . from a lot of the same" corporate sectors, added Larry Noble, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, which monitors money in politics.

Now, Kerry's standard campaign refrain includes this warning to the "special interests" and their lobbyists: "We're coming, you're going and don't let the door hit you on the way out."

The Hill, a Washington-based publication covering Capitol Hill, this month reported that Kerry in 1999 lobbied the Coast Guard on a rule-making process that benefited a foreign company represented by Cassidy & Associates. Soon after, employees of Cassidy & Associates sent Kerry $7,250 in bundled contributions. Jim Ruggieri, the Coast Guard official who handled the matter, told the paper it was highly unusual for a senator to intervene on such a matter.

In the presidential race, Kerry has accepted contributions from the same "special interests" he accuses Bush of being too cozy with: HMOs, drug companies and energy firms. He has raised nearly $27,000 from oil and gas companies, tops of the remaining Democratic candidates; $34,000 from health maintenance organizations, second to Dean; and $18,500 from pharmaceutical companies, third behind Dean and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.). Even after subtracting money Kerry has raised for his presidential campaign, he ranks in the top four Senate beneficiaries of lobbyist cash, the CRP found.

One of Kerry's biggest -- and perhaps most controversial -- donors has been the Boston-based law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo. The group, which lobbies on behalf of the telecommunications industry -- and employs the senator's brother, Cameron -- is his single largest contributor over the course of his Senate career. David Leiter, Kerry's former chief of staff, is vice president of a lobbying company affiliated with the Boston-based law firm.

"Kerry, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, has sponsored or co-sponsored a number of bills favorable to the industry and has written letters to government agencies on behalf of the clientele of his largest donor," the report said. The Boston law firm's client include the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), an umbrella group for telecommunications companies.

Since 1999, Kerry has sponsored at least two bills and co-sponsored half a dozen that were sought by the CTIA, including industry-backed plans for winning lucrative auctions of spectrum, or airwaves. Thomas Wheeler, the former chief executive of the CTIA, and Christopher Putala, a lobbyist for the group, are both among Kerry's biggest presidential fundraisers.

[537cant be wrong]

my G_D man.
now i truely have seen evil.

[kcvl]

KERRY TOOK MILLIONS FROM OIL, GAS, PHARMACEUTICAL

AND FINANCIAL SECTOR EMPLOYEES

Since 1989, Kerry Received $111,850 From Oil And Gas Industry Employees. (Center For Responsive Politics Website, www.opensecrets.org, Accessed 2/2/04)

Since 1989, Kerry Received $59,505 From Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Industry Employees. (Center For Responsive Politics Website, www.opensecrets.org, Accessed 2/2/04)

Since 1989, Kerry Received $6,340,659 From Finance/Insurance/Real Estate Sector Employees, Fourth-Most Among Senators Over Last 15 Years. (Center For Responsive Politics Website, www.opensecrets.org, Accessed 2/2/04)

ITS NOT THE CONTRIBUTIONS, IT'S THE HYPOCRISY, STUPID!



TOP KERRY FUNDRAISER'S FIRM LOBBIED FOR ENRON

In 2001-2002, The Firm Of Top Kerry Fundraiser Robert Crowe Earned $80,000 Lobbying For Enron. A firm headed by a top fund-raiser for U.S. Senator John F. Kerry earned $80,000 in lobbying fees from scandal-plagued Enron Corp. over the past two years, according to public records. The Commonwealth Group Ltd., a public policy and lobbying firm run by Boston lawyer Robert Crowe, lobbied for Enron's interests in Congress in 2000 and 2001, earning $40,000 per year, records show. Crowe is a former chairman of Kerry's campaign finance committee and is a close friend and supporter of the Massachusetts Democrat. (Joe Battenfeld, a Top Kerry Fund-Raiser's Firm Lobbied For Enron, The Boston Herald, 2/1/04)

Crowe Currently Listed Among Kerry's Top Fundraisers, Raking In At Least $100,000 For Kerry's Presidential Bid. (Kerry For President Website, www.johnkerry.com, Accessed 2/8/04)

ENRON CEO KEN LAY SAT ON HEINZ BOARD

Former Enron CEO Ken Lay Sat On A Heinz Board. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry regularly scorches the management of Enron, the scandal-ridden, bankrupt energy company founded by Kenneth Lay. [S]elf-styled muckraker Bernardo Issel of NonprofitWatch.org told us that the much-maligned Lay has been a longtime member of the board of trustees of the Heinz Center, an environmental group founded by the candidate's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. She's the group's vice chairman, and Lay left the small board earlier this year after serving for nearly a decade. (Lloyd Grove,The Reliable Source, The Washington Post, 6/27/03)


Kerry Took More Money From Lobbyists Than Any Senator Over Last 15 Years! Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) has raised more money from paid lobbyists than any other senator over the past 15 years, federal records show. Kerry has received nearly $640,000 from lobbyists, many representing telecommunications and financial companies with business before his committee (Jim VandeHei, Kerry Leads In Lobby Money, The Washington Post, 1/31/04)

[kcvl]

Found this...

I find it odd that Democrats like John Kerry would spend so much time
>bashing the pharmaceutical and energy industries. As a pharmacist I know
>lots of hard-working, dedicated scientists who work at pharmaceutical
>companies in research and development. They are biochemists, chemists,
>geneticists, etc., who are working to develop new drugs to help cure
>diseases and alleviate human suffering. Pharmaceutical companies and the
>people who work for them are responsible for many of the advances in human
>medicine. Without their hard work on the research and development front,
>many of us wouldn't be alive today.
>
>Ditto for the energy companies. They work hard to bring us the gas, oil,
>electricity, etc., that literally runs our society. And both the
>pharmaceutical and energy industries employ alot of people. If Kerry hates
>the big energy companies so much, maybe he should move out of his heated,
>air-conditioned Beacon Hill condo and live with the street people in Boston.
>
>Don Lyman

[GraceCoolidge]

"This administration misled Congress, misled the public and misled even members of their own party about the cost of the Medicare bill," said Kennedy, a key supporter of Bush's Democratic rival Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.

Yet, as you note, Kennedy is "a leader on health issues." What puzzles me is how "dumb" President Bush always manages to fool all these really really smart guys like Ted Kennedy.... he can fool 'em on Medicare, he can fool 'em on WMD, he can fool 'em on the war.... Gee, since everyone knows what a sneak and fraud President Bush is, how come he is always able to pull the wool over their eyes? Just exactly how much of an "intelligence gap" do you have, Senator Kennedy?

[Rocko]

Teddy speaks.

[Just mythoughts]

"Kennedy: Bush lied Mass. senator issues stinging rebuke that accuses president of deceiving the public, compares his actions to those of Richard Nixon"
"Newsday is more sussinct. Teddy meltdown. Kerry endorses these statements to breakthrough the media clutter to put out his message. Too bad nobody is listening."


Hillry is at it again, writing speeches for Old Teddy to give. The Nixon line gives away who wrote this.

[mombonn]

I just heard him calling Iraq President Bush's Viet Nam. I won't tell you what I muttered under my breath.

[Old Grumpy]

"Ah yes.....This from that lying, drunken, famous "teller of truth", defender of pervert impeached president and protector of young women -- except those submerged in his car for hours before he reports the accident....

A pox on his ass.. "

I AGREE with your entire statement!

[Sender]

Finally, I have a visual image to go with the little-used word 'wretched'.

[Bringbackthedraft]

"Finally, I have a visual image to go with the little-used word 'wretched'"


The only image I get from him is his panting breath and the sound of running foot steps splashing in the water.

[golas1964]

Message to Teddy from one fed up Massachusetts Republican:

Hey Chappaquidick Boy: Does your face hurt? 'Cause it's killing me!!!