It was bad enough when Kerry tried to filibuster a Supreme Court nomination while skiing in the Swiss Alps. It was bad enough when he said with a straight face "I actually voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it." It was bad enough when he stood in the Senate and said that his Christmas mission to Cambodia was seared in his memory," and now says that it really happened in February so I guess it wasn't seared all that well. It was bad enough when he repeated false stories about Vietnam atrocities committed by American soldiers in "a manner reminiscent of Ghengis Khan." But the man just never learns.

Has he never heard of John Murtha?

Did he not watch what happened when Murtha started talking about his somewhere over the rainbow troop withdrawal?

Apparently not.

Kerry started proposing the same over the rainbow scenario as Murtha.

And what did the Republicans do, AGAIN?

They took Kerry at his word. The decided that such an important matter should be left as an amendment to other legislation, so they proposed it as a piece of legislation. There was a brief impassioned debate and then a vote in which the measure went down to defeat 93-6.

The Democrats are complaining that the whole thing was a political stunt on the part of the Republicans, and they're probably right. But don't forget the whole over the rainbow withdrawal was put forward by the man they nominated to be president.

You didn't learn your lesson the last time so don't complain that the other party made you look stupid. Again. You brought it on yourselves.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 12:56 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment