I think the Press releases are getting snappier and snarkier

[TayTay]

I love this one on the weird 'Yes & No' funding on the Red Tide from Kerry's office:

"It's terrific that the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute will be receiving money to execute research on red tides, but I remain very concerned about the President's budget cuts to this important program for fiscal year 2006. President Bush has proposed a $10 million overall cut to the very programs that fund work on red tides - programs that support the grants that WHOI is receiving today. Only the Bush Administration would fund Red Tide research before it cuts it."

And yesterday's release on getting some damn responsibility and accountability hearings over the Rove/Libby leaks:

"Americans deserve a Congress that holds Washington accountable for the truth about our national security. Can anyone argue with a straight face that Congress has time to look at steroid use in baseball but doesn’t have the will to provide congressional oversight of the leak of a CIA agent’s name? It’s long past time to stop putting politics ahead of the public good, get to the bottom of a national security breach and restore credibility to Washington," said John Kerry, who authored the letter."

The prose is getting much livelier. I am really enjoying these dispatches from the front lines a lot lately.

[Noisy Democrat]

1. Where are you seeing them?

Are they up on his site?

[TayTay]

2. Yes. They are on the official Senate.gov site.

And those presses releases are getting better and better. I love it when they go all offensive and snarky. It's just so great to read.

[karynnj]

3. I agree that they are getting sharper,

but I've loved the way he has written about the issues since I started reading his comments since the election. He really does write more colorfully and personally than other politicans I've gotten things from. (How he ever got an image of boring and aloof is beyond me.)

[TayTay]

4. T think so too!

I find those letters a lot of fun to read. And you can just sense when Kerry is pissed at something. (All those Rove comments. There is nothing benign or wishy-washy about his feelings on that. That is stright-forward and powerful.)

I just adored the vets letter that was posted here. That was so lovely and heart-felt and sweet.

I do enjoy these letter more than just about anything else I get. They are so colorful, as you wrote.

[ginnyinWI]

5. ha!

So often their criticisms are more aptly applied to themselves. For example, Bush is the one who is boring and aloof! He portrays himself as a good ol' boy, but he's actually a real snob without an original thought in his head.

On Kerry's writing: I agree, it's really good. And it sounds just like the way he speaks. A real human being with unfailing intelligence.

[Island Blue]

6. I love the quote

"Only the Bush Administration would fund Red Tide research before it cuts it." That statement is just dripping in :sarcasm: and irony! You know it's gotta be frustrating for him, of all people, to put up with all of the Bushshit. I love that he's expressing his anger in a subtle, yet easily understood way.

[TayTay]

7. I just adore that line.

IT's so sweet to read. I really think Kerry is enjoying the hell out of being able to tee off on this and on the Rove stuff. Kerry knows it was Rove who set up the SVBT stuff. On a gut human level, it just has to feel good to call Rove on his truly awful behavior.

[Island Blue]

8. I'm sure it will feel even better for him

when he sees Rove being frog-marched in an orange jumpsuit! I know it will make ME feel better! :) I'm sure JK will hide his glee though in a very classy and dignified manner. Me, not so much!

[LittleClarkie]

9. It's even better sometimes when it's a Senate speech

and he embellishes. Remember the "WHAT!?" that wasn't in the original speech about the nucular option. As in, what do you mean, that's the first time you've seen a Senator on your side stop, and think. Reminded me of Gore's "HELLO!?" during his moveon.org speech on the same subject.

Come to think of it, I've come to quite respect Gore as well. I wouldn't mind if he ran again as well. As long as he had a place for our John in his cabinet, of course ;)

[TayTay]

10. I have been enjoying the speeches a lot this year

Kerry has been very animated. It think it's because the Rethugs are so awful and their Congressional agenda is just so hideous that he has a lot to go on.

Kerry told the MA group my husband was at in April that this was, hands down, the worst, he had ever seen it in Congress. (And that goes back to the Iran-Contra days.) It used to be that you could talk to the opposition as people. But these Rethugs who graduated from Newt Gingrich U over in the House are just nasty. They want to bury the opposition. They don't reasons with people, they just try and steamroll over them.

BTW, is there a Kerry floor speech scheduled this week? Cuz I can see Kerry just teeing off on the whole Defense Bill being delayed thing. Just friggin teeing off on it. (Cuz it is so reprehensible to put off the Defense budget in order to kiss the arse of the Gun Lobby.)

[MH1]

11. Damn, "great minds...."

"Americans deserve a Congress that holds Washington accountable for the truth about our national security. Can anyone argue with a straight face that Congress has time to look at steroid use in baseball but doesn’t have the will to provide congressional oversight of the leak of a CIA agent’s name?

Well I can't PROVE that I was thinking it cause I didn't post about it. But take a look at Waxman's Government Reform - Minority Office site (http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov), then look at the Majority Office site (http://www.reform.house.gov). I saw that yesterday and said, "Holy shit, these people can't be serious!" (if you're too lazy to click on the link and look, what got my attention is the featured story - on the Government Reform committtee website - is fucking steroid use in baseball.)

Then I see your post here with JK's words reflecting similar thinking, and it just warms the cockles of my heart and all. :-)

(I bet someone in his office or the Dem caucus kinda noticed the same thing I did on that website. Or am I making too much of minutia? I do that sometimes...)

[karynnj]

12. Wasn't Baseball steroids a big McCain issue

with lots of hearings earlier in the year.

[MH1]

13. Yes, I think so.

But what clicked with me was the contrast between the main topics on the Minority vs. Majority Government Reform websites, and how that contrast exactly demonstrates the point Kerry made in his letter.

[Mass]

14. McCain and Biden, if I am not mistaken.