Kennedy and rising water, finally, something he can claim expertise in.
Ah! Another golden Fat Teddy opportunity...
Posted on 11/09/2006 9:55:01 AM PST by 300magnum
ROME (Reuters) - Europe will be kept more in the loop about U.S. foreign policy after mid-term elections which swept away Republican control of Congress, senior Democratic party member Senator Edward Kennedy said on Thursday.
Kennedy, the Democratic senator for Massachusetts and the younger brother of former President John F. Kennedy, said his party's newly won control of the U.S. House of Representatives would bring a desire for greater involvement.
"There is a new game in the United States now," he told reporters after meeting Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
"There is a new desire to have more involvement, where the Democrats will be participating in foreign policy...to a much greater extent. I think we have ideas that are constructive and positive," he said in Rome.
Kennedy was asked if the Democrats' mid-term election victory would lead to better dialogue between the United States and European countries, some of whom felt excluded from decisions regarding the war in Iraq.
"I think we are dealing with the situation. I was personally opposed to the war but that was yesterday," he said. "I think that what we are trying to do now is (decide) how we proceed now. That's really the challenge."
Asked if Europe would be kept more in the foreign policy loop than in the past, he said: "Absolutely."
Kennedy is in Italy to attend 40th anniversary commemorations of the 1966 floods that devastated parts of the city of Florence and led to an international effort to save precious works of art and manuscripts.
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Senator Chappaquiddick's an old hand at keeping foreign countries "in the loop" on our foreign policy. Like the Soviet Union.
How about one for the ditch?
Let's keep it simple. Europe is loopy. Enough said. Move along.
Not just a liar and murderer, but brainless too. geez, they're gonna get us killed.
Just like he kept the KGB in the loop in the Reagan era...
Here we go, the Demagogues like Teddy the Swimmer are already off conducting their own personal version of foreign policy. I guess Teddy is having flashbacks to when he tried secret negotiate a surrender in the Cold War to Andropov, seeking to spur the USSR to a more coordinated propaganda campaign between the Demagogues and the Comintern.
... and the overreaching begins... These Democrats are making the same basic mistake that was made by Newt Gingrich: they mistakenly believe that a Speaker can replace the primacy of the President & Chief Executive of the opposite party. Ted, why don't you ask Newt how that worked for him?
If we go European, we are doomed. They are losers, pagans, wussies to Islamofascism and pacifist socialists. Oh, wait, that is the new leadership in Congress isn't it???
Bush will pay a deep price for not revealing the goods on France as pay back for Iraq.
Democrats will run this "Europe" idea as a place superior to us and which we must listen to and has no self-interests different than are own.
I don't have a problem with keeping our allies in the loop on our foreign policy. That doesn't mean they get to define it. And that doesn't mean we share classified info with them.
Someone should remind Ted that only the President can conduct foreign policy. Last time I checked, he had not been elected to that post.
Bush is STILL the CIC
Bush is STILL the CIC
Kennedy and rising water, finally, something he can claim expertise in.
eXPECT IT TO HAPPEN mCcAIN WILL JUMP RIGHT SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS, the gruesome foursome:
kennedy
kerry
mccain
spector
Thats the facts mam!
Brilliant! Ask foreigners how we should conduct foreign policy! Why was this not thought of before!?
Kennedy, the Democratic senator for Massachusetts and the younger brother of former President John F. Kennedy
oh and what else is he....and a man who leaves a woman to drown in his car while drunk...
the only reason they are asking europe is they are bankrupt of ideas themselves
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