Back in Senate, Kerry still opposing Bush

[NVMojo]

Condi was one of the principle 9-11 duds....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat John Kerry, back in Congress after failing to wrest the U.S. presidency from George W. Bush in the November election, cast one of two votes on Wednesday against Bush's choice for secretary of state.

Kerry and California Democrat Barbara Boxer were the only members on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to vote against the nomination of Condoleezza Rice, currently Bush's national security advisor.

Kerry, whose election battle with Bush focused largely on the Iraq war, said Rice would perpetuate floundering policies in Iraq and elsewhere and represented policies that failed to make America safer after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Kerry called Rice "one of the principal architects, implementers and defenders of a series of administration policies and choices that, in my judgment, have not made our country as secure as we ought to be in the aftermath of 9/11."

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7373979

[YvonneCa]

1. Go, Kerry!!!

Keep telling the truth until it can no longer be ignored!!!:-)

[Pegleg Thd]

2. You see that only Kerry

and Boxer voted against "riceburner". Where did the other dems have their heads???

[clydefrand]

3. Where the sun doesn't shine! But I'm proud of the two who did

vote against her. I see a winning ticket in 2008! But then I saw a winning ticket in 2004! And it was B/C.

[raysr]

4. What he needs to do

is sink John O'Neill somehow.

[Vektor]

5. Your little avatar...

...is the cutest thing I have ever seen. I LOVE penguins.
And your statement about O'Neill??
Nothing truer was ever said. I'd call him the anti-christ, but that would be giving him too much credit.

[NEOBuckeye]

6. It's the Linux Penguin n/t

[DividedWeAre]

7. why not oppose her?

there is no reason to let her by. even the decent republicans can see how poor a substitute she is for someone like powell (who lost ALL of my respect by waiting it out). the bow-down by the demos is ridiculous. they can be civilized without giving bush the idea that he can do anything he wants.. that's a dangerous move. they need to stand up and represent US, not some sort of lame "for the good of the country" concept.

[ginnyinWI]

8. All else said, the campaign did JK a lot of good

I think he got back in touch with just why he entered public service in the first place. He saw and heard regular people and their needs. He's gotten more focused as a result, more committed to changing what's wrong in America. He's also probably emboldened by getting 56 million votes. So there's a silver lining to this loss. The other one is that Bush has to face his own pile of elephant doo-doo.

[jazzjunkysue]

9. Go, Kerry. Hurt him. You command news, now, so, say it all.

[Robert Oak]

10. Kerry respect meter: daily report, 50% increase

I have no idea what dems just don't come out and call it as it really
is....

they listen to "pundits" and "advisors" and all of this rot...

dems lost the election because they abandoned their principles
in the 90's and on top of it, lost their voice.

I don't know how many people I know said there was "No difference"
between the two parties...

and voting for those trade agreements and listening to lobbyists
giving major corporate favors that hurt the nation...

I had nothing to say back really except "lesser of two evils".

Dems just are way too "politically correct" and "polite" or something while conservatives are taking over everything pushing their
minority agenda down the throat of the US.

This administration has to be the most outrageous...possibly in the history of the US, certainly makes Nixon look like a Green party candidate.