Here are some short stories from the weekend. By the way Senator Kerry is hold up on Martha's Vineyard working on his speech. He claims that he is the sole author and very few people will see it before he gives it. Boy, I do not believe that for one single moment. Kerry's speech will be read, dissected, re-written, changed, and molded into a liberal anti-Bush mantra. Unless, of course, Kerry is capable of writing that. One question, will the Senator cross a picket line to give it? Or will he sneak into the Fleet Center?
+This is a great article. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called several members of the California legislature "girlie men" for not having the ability to make the tough cuts in the California budget.
Although many democrats are upset about the characterization, the governor says that there will be no apology.
Full article -->My Way News
+This is becoming one of my favorite sources for political comment, The Kerry Spot on National Review Online.
DOES "LIBERAL" LABEL FIT KERRY? UM... YES.
John F. Harris of the Washington Post looks at whether the "liberal label" is sticking to Kerry. The Kerry Spot will have more later this week on the efforts to rebrand Kerry as a moderate, and some Democrats' quibbling with the National Journal rankings. But as Harris suggests the vote rankings are out of context, keep in mind this relevant preview:
[Some columnists contend] Kerry’s most-liberal-record-in-the-Senate National Journal rating has been misconstrued, because the magazine “rates senators in three major areas — economic policy, foreign policy, and social policy — but only if they voted on more than half the issues. Kerry spent most of 2003 on the campaign trail and amassed only enough votes to be assessed on economics. He wasn't even rated on foreign or social issues.”
Fourteen of the 15 votes in social issues were on abortion or Bush’s judges. There’s no way John Kerry would have voted conservative on these bills, despite what he says today about believing life begins at conception.
Of the foreign policy votes, Kerry missed two votes on a requirement that portions of aid to other nations for HIV/AIDS prevention be used for abstinence programs; three votes on nuclear bunker-buster weapons; a proposal to bar the enforcement of the ban on U.S. citizens traveling to Cuba, and a proposal to reduce reconstruction aid to Iraq by $5 billion. Does anyone imagine John Kerry would vote for the conservative position on any of these?
In short, any way you slice Kerry's voting record in the Senate — short term, long term, only counting votes on alternating Tuesdays — he comes up as one of the chamber's most liberal members.
ZINGERS
New York Times: "In warming up the audience before the rally, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a Republican, used a multiple-choice pop quiz to compare the men.
"What is more important to you in a vice president? A: What is in his head, or B: What is on his head," Mr. Pawlenty asked. "This is a case of style versus substance and steak versus sizzle."
Democrats had some fun at Mr. Cheney's expense on Friday night at a fund-raiser in Los Angeles. Referring to a recent episode in which Mr. Cheney used a profanity on the Senate floor, Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, declared, "I want a vice president who doesn't need anger management."
More from the Kerry Spot here -->The Kerry Spot on National Review Online
+The partisan 9/11 Commission will release it report this week. Much of the information is being leaked. We'll have more here after the release. G.
+Since the Kennedy family is playing a large role in the DNC next week, it's time to visit every Kennedy's favorite vacation spot Chappaquiddick island near Martha's Vineyard. In fact, on the plane to Martha's Vineyard, the French-looking senator from Massachusetts gleefully pointed out Chappaquiddick to members of the press on the plane. Way to go senator.
Article from Human Events -->HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Revisiting Chappaquiddick After 35 Years
That's it for now. More later.
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