John Kerry, the 23RD MOST LIBERAL SENATOR IN THE NATION
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LMAO!!!!!!! Liberals are the ones that turned it into a swear word for themselves.
anytime some1 calls them a liberal they try and run from it as fast as they can. why not be proud of what they are???
Conservatives dont go around saying "hey dont call me a conservative, it's embarrasing" they wear that shit proudly.
anytime some1 calls them a liberal they try and run from it as fast as they can. why not be proud of what they are???
Conservatives dont go around saying "hey dont call me a conservative, it's embarrasing" they wear that shit proudly.
Sources Mclean? Which 3 times?
If he was the most liberal 3 times in his term, why did his adjusted career average put him in the middle of the Democratic party? Let's do the math.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that for every term there were only 40 democrats in the senate.
A higher number would make this even harder for you to prove, so the low estimate of 40 is helping out your case. At any rate, let's say John Kerry's voting record is 40/40 (40/40 being most liberal) in terms of liberalism for three times in a row. As of right now, he is ranked 40 out of 40 in Liberalism out of 3 terms, or 120 "liberal points".
In order for him to even make an overall rating of 30/40 in terms of liberalism, (which is even *more liberal* than his adjusted average of 23rd out of 48), he would have had to have a 0 "liberal voting record" for his fourth term. This, just to make 30th most liberal Senator out of the total 40. To make 23rd/48, which is his weighted overall average in a senate of 40 democrats, he would have had to have been 19th least liberal in our example...19/40.
To make an average of 19th/40 in liberalism, he would have had to have an overall score of 76. As it stands, his three most liberal terms put him at 120 "liberal points". So from 120 to 76, his fourth voting term would have to be -46 liberal points...in other words, more conservative than 45 Republican senators...which obviously never happened.
Thus, it is physically impossible for Kerry to have the most liberal voting record during three of his terms.
If he was the most liberal 3 times in his term, why did his adjusted career average put him in the middle of the Democratic party? Let's do the math.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that for every term there were only 40 democrats in the senate.
A higher number would make this even harder for you to prove, so the low estimate of 40 is helping out your case. At any rate, let's say John Kerry's voting record is 40/40 (40/40 being most liberal) in terms of liberalism for three times in a row. As of right now, he is ranked 40 out of 40 in Liberalism out of 3 terms, or 120 "liberal points".
In order for him to even make an overall rating of 30/40 in terms of liberalism, (which is even *more liberal* than his adjusted average of 23rd out of 48), he would have had to have a 0 "liberal voting record" for his fourth term. This, just to make 30th most liberal Senator out of the total 40. To make 23rd/48, which is his weighted overall average in a senate of 40 democrats, he would have had to have been 19th least liberal in our example...19/40.
To make an average of 19th/40 in liberalism, he would have had to have an overall score of 76. As it stands, his three most liberal terms put him at 120 "liberal points". So from 120 to 76, his fourth voting term would have to be -46 liberal points...in other words, more conservative than 45 Republican senators...which obviously never happened.
Thus, it is physically impossible for Kerry to have the most liberal voting record during three of his terms.
yall can hate on clinton all yall want but the bottm line is
under clinton
crime was down
the nationl debt was brought back to even.
23 million new jobs were created.
9 million more familys had health care than thy do now.
smll bussiness were at a all time high.
a lot was the internet boom. i wont lie about that.
but a shit load of social programs were better funded than they are today. plus he put 400.000 more cops on the street.and banded automatic wepons.
in fact hes the only preident in over a quater century to balance the budjet and get us debt free.
regan- the first presdent to put in over a trillion dollars worth of debt. in fact it went up over a trillion $ every year he was in office. to over 9 trillion by the time bush sr. was elected.
bush sr. over 5 trillion more in debt during his stay.
yall dont remember that big ass natioal debt digital board that was a main fixture in the 92 election?
clinton sent the debt up higher during his first term until in 97 he fianlly ha he votes to pass his budjet the way he ad wanted to all along. he worked to trade goods with other countries to get our debt down and showed true fiscle resoncabilty. and by 2000 america had a fuckin surplus.
plus all the shit i mentioned above.
now we have bush -
debt is up again
job are down
people with health insurance is down ( despite the 200+ billion dollar health care plan bush championed) wonder why hes not been runnin on that?????????????
crime is on the rise.
our world rep is in the shiter.
vets have had their benifits cut.
all i know is what i see. yall can point fingers all you want.
but in the last 26 years i personaly was better off during the only demo president ive seen in my life time. than i was under the 16 years under republican ones.
including now. so yall can keep typeing your spin all you want. i know what i lived and ill take a demo back anyday.
under clinton
crime was down
the nationl debt was brought back to even.
23 million new jobs were created.
9 million more familys had health care than thy do now.
smll bussiness were at a all time high.
a lot was the internet boom. i wont lie about that.
but a shit load of social programs were better funded than they are today. plus he put 400.000 more cops on the street.and banded automatic wepons.
in fact hes the only preident in over a quater century to balance the budjet and get us debt free.
regan- the first presdent to put in over a trillion dollars worth of debt. in fact it went up over a trillion $ every year he was in office. to over 9 trillion by the time bush sr. was elected.
bush sr. over 5 trillion more in debt during his stay.
yall dont remember that big ass natioal debt digital board that was a main fixture in the 92 election?
clinton sent the debt up higher during his first term until in 97 he fianlly ha he votes to pass his budjet the way he ad wanted to all along. he worked to trade goods with other countries to get our debt down and showed true fiscle resoncabilty. and by 2000 america had a fuckin surplus.
plus all the shit i mentioned above.
now we have bush -
debt is up again
job are down
people with health insurance is down ( despite the 200+ billion dollar health care plan bush championed) wonder why hes not been runnin on that?????????????
crime is on the rise.
our world rep is in the shiter.
vets have had their benifits cut.
all i know is what i see. yall can point fingers all you want.
but in the last 26 years i personaly was better off during the only demo president ive seen in my life time. than i was under the 16 years under republican ones.
including now. so yall can keep typeing your spin all you want. i know what i lived and ill take a demo back anyday.
as i said we always claimed that he was voted most liberal senator in 2003 and that he won the embarrasing award 3 times.
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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI FEB 27, 2004 09:39:45 ET XXXXX
NUMBER ONE: KERRY RANKED 'MOST LIBERAL' IN SENATE ROLL CALL VOTES, TOPS KENNEDY, CLINTON
NATIONAL JOURNAL on Friday claimed Democrat frontrunner John Kerry has the "most liberal" voting record in the Senate.
The results of Senate vote ratings show that Kerry was the most liberal senator in 2003, with a composite liberal score of 96.5 -- far ahead of such Democrat stalwarts as Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.
NATIONAL JOURNAL's scores, which have been compiled each year since 1981, are based on lawmakers' votes in three areas: economic policy, social policy, and foreign policy.
"To be sure, Kerry's ranking as the No. 1 Senate liberal in 2003 -- and his earning of similar honors three times during his first term, from 1985 to 1990 -- will probably have opposition researchers licking their chops," NATIONAL JOURNAL reports.
Developing...
[The ratings system was first devised in 1981 under the direction of William Schneider, a political analyst and commentator at CNN, and a contributing editor to National Journal, who continues to guide the calculation process. Data processing and statistical analysis were performed by Information Technology Services of the Brookings Institution. A panel of National Journal editors and reporters initially compiled a list of 140 key congressional roll-call votes for 2003 -- 63 votes for the Senate and 77 for the House -- and classified them as relating to economic, social, or foreign policy. Roll-call data was drawn from the Congressional Record.]
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http://www.drudgereport.com/mattjk11.htm
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI FEB 27, 2004 09:39:45 ET XXXXX
NUMBER ONE: KERRY RANKED 'MOST LIBERAL' IN SENATE ROLL CALL VOTES, TOPS KENNEDY, CLINTON
NATIONAL JOURNAL on Friday claimed Democrat frontrunner John Kerry has the "most liberal" voting record in the Senate.
The results of Senate vote ratings show that Kerry was the most liberal senator in 2003, with a composite liberal score of 96.5 -- far ahead of such Democrat stalwarts as Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.
NATIONAL JOURNAL's scores, which have been compiled each year since 1981, are based on lawmakers' votes in three areas: economic policy, social policy, and foreign policy.
"To be sure, Kerry's ranking as the No. 1 Senate liberal in 2003 -- and his earning of similar honors three times during his first term, from 1985 to 1990 -- will probably have opposition researchers licking their chops," NATIONAL JOURNAL reports.
Developing...
[The ratings system was first devised in 1981 under the direction of William Schneider, a political analyst and commentator at CNN, and a contributing editor to National Journal, who continues to guide the calculation process. Data processing and statistical analysis were performed by Information Technology Services of the Brookings Institution. A panel of National Journal editors and reporters initially compiled a list of 140 key congressional roll-call votes for 2003 -- 63 votes for the Senate and 77 for the House -- and classified them as relating to economic, social, or foreign policy. Roll-call data was drawn from the Congressional Record.]
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Filed By Matt Drudge
Reports are moved when circumstances warrant
http://www.drudgereport.com for updates
(c)DRUDGE REPORT 2004
Not for reproduction without permission of the author
it dosent and it dont put cops on the streets and it dont reduce crime. and it dont properly fund social programs.
but it wouldnt be a GOTM thread without tadou takein 1 lil part of a far longer post and makeing a tard comment in hopes to fool the people that dont read the longer threads.
or whatever reason he so openly exsposes hisself as a jackass.
but it wouldnt be a GOTM thread without tadou takein 1 lil part of a far longer post and makeing a tard comment in hopes to fool the people that dont read the longer threads.
or whatever reason he so openly exsposes hisself as a jackass.