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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (6566)	3/11/2004 11:58:40 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 81568

Why should Jk apologize for telling the truth? It's refreshing to hear him tell it like it is. Coulter, Hannity, Drudge, Savage, Stampley, Limbaugh are all proven radical liars and cheats. They are crooked. They do not have the American peoples' interests at heart. They wil, literally say anything. They're defending a certain radical right extremist corporate elite who stand for ripping off Americans, sending us backwards and lying. Semi-fascists and con artists.

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (6566)	3/12/2004 1:18:50 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 81568

Go Kerry!!! Top Republicans tried yesterday to spoil Sen. John F. Kerry's return to Congress as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, bitterly attacking his off-microphone remark in which he called Republicans "the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen." But the Massachusetts senator, surrounded by cheering colleagues, rejected their demands for an apology and fired back at what he termed "a Republican attack squad that specializes in trying to destroy people." The sharp exchanges -- which coincided with a new Bush-Cheney campaign ad hitting Kerry's tax proposals -- overshadowed both parties' comments about policies and agendas and added further invective to a presidential contest already marked by an unusual number of personal attacks eight months before Election Day. The day's events left little doubt that congressional Republicans are coordinating their messages with the White House and the Bush-Cheney campaign. Kerry hopes for similar synchronization with his congressional allies, and House and Senate Democrats have begun to assemble teams to go on TV and radio to defend Kerry in their areas of expertise. The contretemps started Wednesday in Chicago, where, as Kerry shook hands with factory workers after a speech, a boom microphone for National Public Radio captured him referring to unspecified Republicans as "the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen." Kerry ignored the Republican National Committee's quick demand for an apology, and a Kerry campaign spokeswoman suggested his remarks had been aimed at a four-year-old "Republican attack machine." But GOP congressional leaders were determined to keep the issue alive yesterday, scheduling news conferences to criticize Kerry as he met elsewhere in the Capitol with Democratic colleagues. First up was House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), who noted that Kerry made the comments "in my home state." He told reporters: "I am one of those Republicans in Illinois. If he wants to describe me as being crooked and a liar, I think he will have his comeuppance coming." Hastert added that "I am not telling a lie" when talking of Kerry's proposal to roll back some of President Bush's tax cuts, which Republicans label a tax increase. washingtonpost.com