Kerry flip-flopping
From the official
G.W. Bush blog comes this entry:
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Kerry Tries to Have It Both Ways on Issue After Issue
In October, John Kerry was one of only twelve Senators to vote against funding for our troops in Iraq, including money for body armor, higher combat pay and better health care for reservists and their families. Here's Kerry yesterday, backpedaling furiously from that vote:
bq. Mr. Kerry added, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it," referring to an amendment he supported that would have rescinded some tax cuts to finance the war.
bq. Kerry's tortured explanation of his vote is problematic on a number of levels, not the least of which is his willingness to make troops in the field pay the price because he didn't get his way on a tax increase. But the explanation also reveals Kerry's troubling tendency to explain away inconvenient votes by simply claiming he voted the other way -- on earlier, less important versions of the bill.
It goes on to talk about Kerry's flip-flop on Cuba saying "And I voted for the Helms-Burton legislation" when in actuality, he did not.
They close out with the following observation:
bq. The bottom line is this: when it really mattered, on final passage, Kerry voted against funding for our troops in Iraq. He's now trying to say he voted the other way. On issue after issue, he wants to have it both ways.
bq. No thanks, Senator. We need steady leadership in the White House.
So true... I may not like a lot of Bush's domestic policies but he is by far the best of the lot...
Posted by DaveH at March 17, 2004 10:11 AM