Help!, shrill telling Kerry hasn't done a thing for 20 years in Senate

[still_one]

Any link or help appreciated

[Mz Pip]

1. Can't have it both ways.

He can't heve become the #1 liberal in the Senate by doing nothing. He's #1 according to them so he must have done quite a lot to earn that top spot. So which is it? #1 or Do Nothing?

MzPip
:dem:

[trumad]

3. Been involved in over 75 bills

Cheney in all his time as a Congressman only was involved with 2.

[Vickers]

4. Excellent answer

:thumbsup:

[nyhuskyfan]

2. He wrote or sponsored 57 bills that passed

Dick Cheney wrote or sponsored two

[bryant69]

5. There was an article in Salon a couple of weeks ago

About this issue. Part of the "problem" is that Kerry hasn't put forward a lot of bills. He's been more of a consenses builder and an investigator. Anyway the article is worth checking out --> http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/10/kerry_record/index.html

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[guitar man]

6. Exposed Iran-Contra

That's the REAL reason they hate him so much, but they won't admit it.

[noamnety]

7. 57 or 58 bills?

His website says 58 bills, that's odd.

Anyway, I've got some details here: http://ideamouth.com/respect.htm#Senate

[still_one]

8. Thanks

[A_Possum]

9. Shut down bin Laden's and Bush's money laudering bank, BCCI

Bush did business with Bin Laden's bankers while Kerry was fighting to shut it down to terrorist and drug connections.

Long before September 11, 2001, George W. Bush got a 25 million dollar loan from the same bankers that dealt with bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, while John Kerry was fighting to stop this bank's global laundering of money for drug lords and terrorists. John Kerry shut it down. He's been fighting terrorism at its roots since before George Bush ran for office.

"The Bank of Credit and Commerce International was an institution of Middle East origins whose employees asked few questions of their wealthy and powerful customers, making it a favorite of arms merchants, drug dealers, such as Noriega, and intelligence agencies," according to the Boston Globe bio of Kerry. "At the CIA, which sometimes used the bank to launder its own activities, it was known as 'Bank of Crooks and Criminals.'"

In the late 80's, Bush got a loan for $25 million for his failing oil company, Harkin, from a Saudi banker who dealt through BCCI, thereby joining its other customers such as Noriega, Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

At the same time, Kerry was working to investigate it. He used his senate committee powers to shut down this fraudulent banking operation against great opposition from prominent people on both sides of the aisle, including some Democrats who had become involved.

(Kerry came across the bank's shadowy activities, btw, while investigating the Iran-contra scandal, and pursued it.)

So, who do you think has a better record against terror in the 20 years before 9/11, Bush or Kerry?

[blm]

10. In short, Kerry investigated and exposed more government corruption than

any lawmaker in modern history.

[ComerPerro]

11. As opposed to Bush doing, what, exactly, all that time?

I mean, really. It's just pathetic. Before Bush somehow became governor of Texas, he described himself as "just a media creation". He started failed business after failed business, made thousands of dollars from insider trading and by getting the people of Texas to pay for Arlington ballpark, and was an alcoholic until he was 40.

During his first four years in office he has managed to put up a higher net job loss than anyone short of Hoover, has allowed (through incompetence or willful neglect) the US to suffer the worst terror attack in American history, and has lied his way into a war with a country that we may still be occupying ten years from now.

Oh, but, in his defense, he did pass that tax cut for the rich, and he is on his way to make sure that neither he nor any of his rich friends have to pay any taxes on their stock divideds or inheritence...

[gatorboy]

12. Here ya go!

http://blog.johnkerry.com/rapidresponse/archives/002321.html#more

Cheney's Legislative Career by the Numbers

96th Congress: 4 Sponsored; 0 became Law

97th Congress: 4 Sponsored: 0 became Law

98th Congress: 8 Sponsored: 0 became Law

99th Congress: 7 Sponsored: 1 became Law (H.R.1246 : A bill to establish a federally declared floodway for the Colorado River below Davis Dam.)

100th Congress: 7 Sponsored: 1 became Law (H.R.712 : A bill for the relief of Lawrence K. Lunt.)

101st Congress: 1 Sponsored: 0 became Law