WP: 'Fired Up' Kerry Returning to Senate

[batchdem04]

Democrat John F. Kerry plans to use his Senate seat and long lists of supporters to remain a major voice in American politics despite losing the presidential race last Tuesday, and he is assessing the feasibility of trying again in 2008, friends and aides said yesterday.

Kerry will attend a post-election lame-duck Senate session that begins next week and has said he is "fired up" to play a highly visible role, the friends and aides said.

Aides said Kerry is relishing the prospect of renewed combat with President Bush, fighting such measures as the president's proposal to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Kerry has spent most of the past two years on the campaign trail, meaning that his return to Capitol Hill will be something of a reintroduction to colleagues.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35224-2004Nov8.html

-- Its looking less and less likely he has anything up his sleeve.

[Stew225]

1. Uh, yeah, right. eom

[candy331]

2. Powerless along with the other powerless in congress, the power is in

the hands of the people, unfortunately they give it to a few power hungry persons who only has self interest. Kerry has spent his shot.

[LiberalEsto]

3. fired-up, my a**

where is he now, when we need him?

[molly]

15. What would you like him to be doing - yelling - screaming?

[LiberalEsto]

19. showing his face and talking to us

[molly]

20. What would you want him to say at this point?

(I'll respond later - on my way to the doc's)

[LiberalEsto]

22. please cease the hostile questions

I'm not Kerry, I'm not his speechwriter, I don't know what I want him to say, but I do think he needs to be out in public giving us some kind of reassurance. I feel totally abandoned.

[flordehinojos]

4. from the way i look at it, kerry must have a big empty in his heart ...

how can he muster courage to face his colleagues in the senate, or us the American electorate after he so wimpily gave up on a complete vote count, i don't know.

This act of a roaring lion ready to face bush again is either the act of a broken hearted man trying to hide his broken heartedness, or he is just as blind as the emperor who wears no clothes and i don't know which it is.

[Dogmudgeon]

5. Folks, let's permit this to play out

It's only been a week since the "election".

Ohio still hasn't counted their provisional votes yet.

The news media has only just discovered this story, thanks to Keith Olberman and Don Imus.

Give the pot time to boil over.

Then, if Kerry wimps out, we can kick his ass in good conscience.

--bkl

[nodehopper]

7. THEN?? are you people in DENIAL? he already wimped out!

[Dogmudgeon]

8. What's the rush?

I'd prefer to make up my mind after all the shit has hit the fan. I don't think that's being in denial at all.

There is no pressing need for us to hate John Kerry, and I'm not going to jump just because some of us are angry.

Right now, Team Bush has the advantage. Once a strong case has been built for electoral fraud both in law and public, we'll see what they do. And what John Kerry will do.

But bitching and griping? I'll save my anger for the actual fight.

--bkl

[nodehopper]

10. I am not jumping, I am staying and fighting, he is the one that jumped

what's the RUSH? The jerk CONCEDED hours after his own VP came out and said "every vote will be counted"

I guess Mark Twain was right, Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

[Dogmudgeon]

12. Cut the personal bullshit

If you want to go off half-cocked, that's your right, but don't try to sign me up for your circular firing squad.

The "Enemy" is the Right Wing.

--bkl

[nodehopper]

27. THE ENEMY is right wing. and we should all be fighting it.

[Dogmudgeon]

28. Yes. Yes, indeed!

--bkl

[Clinton Crusader]

9. I agree with you. Seems like a LIFETIME to us but it's only been a week

Im as distressed as anyone about the silence from JK/JE (JE has his own problems right now) but Im willing to let this run it's course. Im baffled about the recount fund. They saw ahead of time 'something' may happen and started a fund to challenge the election. What happened to that?

But Im willing to see if something is playing in the background we just dont know about.

[kayell]

16. I agree. We will know by December 13. We can wait that long to

start in with the attacks. Until then it makes more sense to behave as though Kerry is trying to pull this out and keep up our end of the fight. If nothing else, by continueing to fight to bring vote tampering issues in front of the public eye, we will be doing the single most important thing we can do right now to save American democracy for the future.

And the article really doesn't prove anything to me. If I was engaged in a stealth campaign against a clever and unscrupulous enemy, I wouldn't be shouting it out to all who will listen. Haven't you all ever heard of faking out the enemy? Come on people, THINK.

[molly]

17. A thankyou to all of us thinking and logical and mature

posters who have obviously played Chess or some similar game.

:yourock:

[kayell]

18. Exactly. Sometimes you win by sacrificing the Queen.

[oregonjen]

21. If we're thinking this way, then we know that Rove is too

Rove is evil to the core and I don't think he would be blind to what the Kerry camp may be doing. It would be a stupid move on his part not to rule out what we are all speculating here.

[molly]

25. Well maybe his ugly evil ego is clouding his evil logic

[demokatgurrl]

6. Too bad he couldn't get fired up a month ago. n/t

[Jack_Dawson]

11. Or Last Week

Way to have our back John.

[molly]

13. What would you have done?

[jwcurry]

23. Kept Fighting

......given * a concession call. But, behind the scenes, I'd be pushing for every last vote. he has nothing to lose and a firm Senate seat for
as long as he wants it.

Jerry Curry

[molly]

24. Yup!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[newyawker99]

26. Hi jwcurry!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[robbedvoter]

14. Uh, yeah, W also said he'll preznit good from now on!

I bet from now on Kerry will not miss votes on media consolidation, medicare, unemployment extension...Oh, wait, it doesn't make any difference anymore.
:shrug: