So the Repukes want to bring up JK's congressional record! Let em!

[trumad]

Because the Kerry campaign just blew them out of the water! Bwwhhhaaaa!

From Atrios:

Legislative Accomplishments

Cheney, 11 years in the House:

96th Congress: 4 Sponsored; 0 became Law

97th Congress: 4 Sponsored: 0 became Law

98th Congress: 8 Sponsored: 0 became Law

99th Congress: 7 Sponsored: 1 became Law
(H.R.1246 : A bill to establish a federally declared floodway for the Colorado River below Davis Dam.)

100th Congress: 7 Sponsored: 1 became Law

(H.R.712 : A bill for the relief of Lawrence K. Lunt.)

101st Congress: 1 Sponsored: 0 became Law

Taken from a Kerry press release, which included this quote from Congressman Spratt (D-SC):

Dick Cheney served in the Congress for 11 years. I served with him for most of these years. In that time, he only passed two bills. One was to build a flood plain on the Colorado River and the other was a bill to help a constituent. What’s even more telling about Dick Cheney’s record in the House is not what he supported but what he opposed – things like Headstart and funding for seniors. It seems pretty dishonest for Bush and Cheney to be attacking John Kerry - who passed 57 bills in the Senate – for his legislative accomplishments.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_atrios_archive.html#109156850648379146

[k in IA]

1. "It seems pretty dishonest for Bush and Cheney ..." - since when

has that ever stopped them from anything.

[Nevernose]

2. Is there a Kerry side to the argument?

Otherwise, I'm never gonna get anywhere with my Freeper co-workers.

[trumad]

4. Yeah... Kerry got 57 bills passed in his Senate career

Cheney in his 11 only got 2 meaningless bills passed. That's an easy talking point for us.

[sangh0]

3. It's "Rope-a-Dope" time

IMO, Kerry is waiting until the Repukes work themselves up into a frenzy about how Kerry is "hiding" his Senate resume. Once they've gone overboard, Kerry will start talking about how he create reconcile with VietNam, his investigations of BCCI and Iran-Contra, his environmental, civil rights, women's rights, and labor issues, etc.

[Demoiselle]

5. "Rope-a-dope" worries me, Sangh0

Was Al Gore playing rope-a-dope in 2000 when he didn't forcefully put down the Love Canal, Internet Invention, "serial exaggerator" spins
until it was too late to dislodge them from the idiot public discourse?
What worries me about saving your fire in a political campaign, is that undecided voters usually have a very limited attention span...and if some undecideds make their choices now and go back to Survivor reruns or whatever it is that they care about, we will have missed the chance to convince them. An information operation that puts the message AND the rebuttals out there everyday seems to me to be a stronger way to go.

[sangh0]

6. Kerry is not Gore

Your concerns are legitimate, and so I'm not going to dismiss them out of hand. However, I don't think it's wise to compare Kerry to Gore. Kerry has a long record of doing this, and it seems his experience has served him well in this regard.

This isn't to say that Kerry's tactics can't be beat, they could, but I wouldn't assume that because of anything Gore did. Kerry may hold his fire for a time, but the record shows he's not afraid to fire when the timing is right, and he doesn't wait forever.

[Demoiselle]

8. Agreed...

It's just that the "he voted FOR the war and then he voted AGAINST our troops" bullshit is STILL hanging out there. I've read enough to know it's bullshit...but I just wish the Kerry campaign would shoot it down NOW, once and for all, with as much firepower as it takes. (Then again, maybe he's waiting for the first debate, so he can ask Dubya to his face why, if he was so concerned about the troops, did he {DUBYA} threatened to veto the whole damn appropriation to save his rich man's tax cut? )
I live in hope. And in the meantime, I fret.

[sandnsea]

9. It will be sooo fun!!!

And Georgie did what?? Bankrupted oil company after oil company? Put the people of Arlington on the hook for is baseball stadium so he could walk away with the profit?

I can't wait for this fight!

:bounce:

[DebJ]

7. And wasn't Cheney one of only two in Congress who voted

against money for school lunch programs every single year?
Compassionate conservative my ass! And how pro-education is it to demand school teachers to teach hungry children? Can't be done.