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| Kerry's Support for the Sandinistas |
| 2004-05-19 |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #1 I think we are suffering fom a history replay: McConnell publicly accused Kerry of abusing the subcommittee to damage Bush and to help the flagging presidential campaign of Kerry's longtime friend and ally Dukakis. The politicization of the current 9/11 commission, and the attempts by Democratic partisans to prove that the current president, George W. Bush, failed to prevent the 9-11 terrorist attacks when he could have stopped them, seems to be a repeat of the Kerry subcommittee's modus operandi of 1987-88. According to the Boston Globe, McConnell "said Kerry had given credibility to witnesses who were critical of President Reagan and Vice President George Bush but failed to summon others to testify who would rebut the criticisms. Also, McConnell said Kerry had purposely held the hearings during periods when the Senate was not in session in order to limit the number of committee members who might attend the hearings and test the truthfulness of the witnesses." McConnell told the Globe, "I think the integrity of the Senate investigative process and the objectivity, fairness and balance of this particular effort have been compromised for political purposes." |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-05-19 3:36:06 PM |