Breaking: Kerry comments on Dept. of Agriculture

[Renew Deal]

I am listening to Insanity. He said Drudge has something on his site about Kerry wanting to get rid of the Dept. of Agriculture 1996.

I would like to note that Drudge is a lying peice of shit and I wouldn't believe anything coming from there.

[dave29]

1. GOP having a field day today

Pickering installation
Texas Redistricting not touched by Supreme Court
Throwing crap out on all our candidates

They must be spending some of the 130 million they have on hand

[StClone]

5. What Pickering Installation?

Missed that and no links found on the net.

[dave29]

6. This one

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040116/D8044KNG0.html


WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush bypassed Congress and installed Charles Pickering on the federal appeals court Friday, opening an election-year fight with Democrats who had stalled the nomination for more than two years.

Bush installed Pickering by a recess appointment, which avoids the confirmation process. Such appointments are valid until the next Congress takes office, in this case in January 2005.

Pickering, a federal trial judge who Bush nominated for a seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, has been waiting for a confirmation vote in the Senate.

"I'm grateful to the president for his continued confidence and support," Pickering told The Associated Press from his home in Mississippi. "I look forward to serving on the 5th Circuit."

[Mattforclark]

2. Farm subsidies?

Or the whole thing? If he means farm subsidies, then I agree with him entirely.

Yeah, %($^ drudge.

[Snivi Yllom]

4. quote

"I think we can reduce the size of Washington," Kerry said on January 6, 1996. "Get rid of the Energy Department. Get rid of the Agriculture Department, or at least render it three-quarters the size it is today; there are more agriculture bureaucrats than there are farmers in this country"...

[blm]

7. Kerry is a balanced budget guy who KNOWS where the waste is.

`shift the Energy Dept. budget to searches for ALTERNATIVE energy.

He wants to shut down Stars War and tactical nukes programs from defense spending.

The small farmers need to get MORE money and the slimmed down bureaucracy can assure that happens. Kerry speaks out against agri-business getting most of the subsidies when they aren't the ones who need it.

[Snivi Yllom]

8. you mean subsidies?

So farmers can get paid to grow crops noone wants?

[Mattforclark]

11. Subsidies make economic development in the 3rd world impossible

as well as raising food prices for everyone. They are ~12 billion of the 20 billion dollar USDA budget. We need to have less subsidies, not more.

[sandnsea]

10. They hate agri-business in Iowa

They might actually agree with this. They desperately want farmers to be represented in Washington. We'll see where this goes.

[Mattforclark]

12. If I were in Iowa, Kerry would automatically shoot up

to 2nd (after Clark) on my Caucus list. Bet then I'm not in Iowa...

[Fleshdancer]

3. once again, drudge puts crap on his site without a LINK!

why o' why would anyone believe this right wing nut when he doesn't give a source??? It's scary that drudge can say anything, even if it's not true, and so many people will believe it and report it as fact.

So when will Lieberman respond to this one?

:grr:

[cthrumatrix]

9. can't they just sue this guy --- this isn't media -- he's a plant

[Buffler]

15. Sydney Blumenthal

sued Drudge over Drudges story that Sydney beat his wife. Drudge won!

[blm]

16. Welcome to the world of the media skeptics.

i'm surprised you never noticed the bias earlier last year.

[goodhue]

13. dupe?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=122482

[blm]

14. bump.

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