I posted a great rant about Kerry's voting record on my blog a couple of days ago. Scroll down to the picture of Jane Fonda. I still can't believe he voted to cut a billion dollars from counterterrorism operations and a billion and a half from intelligence gathering only a year after the first world trade center bombing.

Doh, the link didn't work. http://grandparoland.blogspot.com/

Roland it is Bush who is making this country more dangerous by diverting funds from homeland security for his tax cuts and oil war. And he has never had botox. Sure he has used some makeup for big speeches but every politician since Nixon does that. I am counting down the days until the start of the Kerry Administration.

Onward mythology, onward! We must defeat our foes with populism and semi-glossed socialism... The facts matter not! What we need are extreme accusation that are not backed up by fact! To succeed, we must divide and conquer! We must, I repeat, we must penalize the successful! Income redistribution! It worked for the blessed commies, it can work for us too! The workers need no motivation; they will motivate themselves. This is our plan. We shall rise taxes, stifle the American Economy, and then (here is the best part) blame the subsequent economic failure on the other side, saying the Tax Cuts (which are unfortunately working toward the enemy’s goals of universal economic prosperity but enabling small and large businesses alike to grow) did this. That way, we can stay in power. That after all is what the blessed Machiavelli said is our ultimate goal, staying in power.

From Roland's Blog... and hard to argue against.

1) In 1996 - Introduced Bill to slash Defense Department Funding by $6.5 Billion. 2) In 1995 - Voted to freeze Defense spending for 7 years, slashing over $34 billion from Defense. 3) Fiscal 1996 Budget Resolution - Defense Freeze. "Harkin, D-Iowa, amendment to freeze defense spending for the next seven years and transfer the $34.8 billion in savings to education and job training." 4) In 1993 - Introduced plan to cut numerous Defense programs, including: Cut the number of Navy submarines and their crews Reduce the number of light infantry units in the Army down to one Reduce tactical fighter wings in the Air Force Terminate the Navy's coastal mine-hunting ship program Force the retirement of no less than 60,000 members of the Armed Forces in one year. 5) Has voted repeatedly to cut Defense spending, including: In 1993, voted against increased Defense spending for Military Pay Raise. Kerry voted to kill an increase in military pay over five years. In 1992, voted to cut $6 billion from Defense. In 1991, voted to slash over $3 Billion from Defense. Shift money to social programs. In 1991, voted to cut defense spending by 2% Voted repeatedly to cut or eliminate funding for B-2 Stealth Bomber Voted repeatedly against Missile Defense - Weapons Kerry sought to phase out were VITAL in Iraq. "[K]erry supported cancellation of a host of weapons systems that have become the basis of US military might-the high-tech munitions and delivery systems on display to the world as they leveled the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein in a matter of weeks." (Brian C. Mooney, "Taking One Prize, Then A Bigger One," The Boston Globe, 6/19/03) Military hardware he felt we no longer need since the "cold war" is past. The money would be better spent on "social" programs. These weapons are now the core of our military might. F-16 Fighting Falcons. B-1Bs B-2As F-15 And F-16s M1 Abrams Patriot Missile AH-64 Apache Helicopter Tomahawk Cruise Missile Aegis Air-Defense Cruiser 6) During 1980s Kerry And Michael Dukakis joined forces with liberal group dedicated to slashing Defense. Kerry sat on the board of "Jobs With Peace Campaign," which sought to "develop public support for cutting the defense budget..."("Pentagon Demonstrators Call For Home-Building, Not Bombs," The Associated Press, 6/3/88) 7) While running for Congress in 1972, Kerry promised to cut Defense Spending. "On what he'll do if he's elected to Congress," Kerry said he would 'bring a different kind of message to the president." He said he would, "Vote against military appropriations." ("Candidate's For Congress Capture Campus In Andover," Lawrence [MA] Eagle-Tribune, 4/21/72) and the icing on the cake: In 1994, the year after the first World Trade Center bombing, John Kerry voted to cut one billion dollars in counterterrorism activities. In 1995, he proposed a $1.5 billion cut in intelligence funding. And he wants to rant at Bush for acting on bad intelligence? Well whose fault is it that the CIA's budget was slashed?