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

To: American Spirit who wrote (24349)	5/21/2004 10:55:36 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 81568

JOHN KERRY, MIA New York Post 5/13/04 May 13, 2004 -- John Forbes Kerry, presidential prospect, is ignoring his day job. Kerry says he supports extending emergency federal unemployment benefits. Whether that's a sound position is another matter, but it is Kerry's position. Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted 59-40 in favor of the extension. But that meant the bill died: It needed 60 votes because it violated a budget agreement reached last year. And who might have provided that missing 60th vote? The junior senator from Massachusetts, of course - JFK Lite. But he was campaigning in Kentucky. Missing votes is nothing new for Kerry; He's been MIA for nearly 70 percent of Senate votes since the beginning of the 108th Congress, in January 2003. The citizens of Massachusetts have a new "taxation without representation" beef, we'd say. In contrast, former Sen. Robert Dole saw to it that his constituents got their full measure when he ran for president from Kansas in 1996. He quit the Senate. Maybe Kerry should do the same. After all, Mr. Gazillionaire sure doesn't have to worry about his unemployment package.