http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002357186Oh my.
trumad (30,255 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
Uhhh before everyone gets excited about the return of Bob Kerry---
yes---the egomaniac Dino from Nebraska, you might want to read Digby.
<snip>
August 28, 1996
CHICAGO - Sen. Bob Kerrey smells an odor coming from the Republican and Democratic stands on entitlements.
"It's one of the cruelest things we do, when we say, Republicans or Democrats, `Oh, we can wait and reform Social Security later,' " the Nebraska Democrat said.
Mr. Kerrey says that without reform, entitlements will claim 100 percent of the Treasury in 2012.
"This is not caused by liberals, not caused by conservatives, but by a simple demographic fact," Mr. Kerrey warned at a meeting of the Democratic Leadership Council.
"We converted the federal government into an ATM machine."
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/good-riddance-to-ben-nelson.html
sabrina 1 (24,236 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. I never liked him. I was hoping he would not run.
unblock (21,129 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. yeah, well, a republican in that seat would be even worse....
DJ13 (19,871 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
9. Would we really see much difference?
unblock (21,129 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
11. this could be the difference between being the majority party and the minority party.
so yes, indeed. if the ONLY thing we get from him is voting (d) for committee chairs, that's a huge win for us.
Cognitive_Resonance (853 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
13. and Supreme Court confirmations.
Swamp Lover (58 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
14. If that's the "logic" of those who are against Kerrey.
I'm sending him money as soon as he announces!!!!!
trumad (30,255 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
15. Well as Digby said---
The Dems will most likely keep the majority.
unblock (21,129 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
19. we have reason to be optimistic, but it's hardly in the bag.
it certainly wasn't considered in the bag a couple months ago, and it would only take some bad economic news or a key scandal to make losing the senate a very viable outcome.
The Velveteen Ocelot (30,366 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. I'm not crazy about him.
However, he has a decent chance of keeping that seat away from the GOP, and electing even a DINO like him means the Senate stays in Dem hands, with the ability to appoint committees, etc. NE is a very conservative state and he's probably as good as we can get there.
TreasonousBastard (18,848 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
4. It's Nebraska-- who better could you name...
who could actually win?
New Yawker (62 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
5. Loan me a million dollars, and I'll run a progressive campaign for Steve Dawes for U.S. Senate
You know who I am talking about!
grasswire (32,985 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
7. loan?
you're planning to pay it back?
TreasonousBastard (18,848 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
18. No bet. It's Nebraska.
Ganja Ninja (14,253 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
6. I was glad when he retired. I wish he'd stay that way.
CAPHAVOC (467 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
8. All his squabbling
Over who gets the most Loot. It's the .001% stupid...not you
WI_DEM (27,281 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
10. I doubt dems will hold this seat with or without Kerrey.
Finally, a primitive ^^^ who knows something.
karynnj (44,676 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
12. This is a 1996 quote - it seems fair to way to see if he has rethought it. He clearly was wrong as to those projections. Not to mention, this year, the most important position might be who will he vote for majority leader. There is NO progressive who is an alternative. If Bob Kerrey can win the seat - and that will be tough - it might be our best possibility.
One thing to remember is that even Ben Nelson voted with us more than even the most liberal Republican - and NE Republicans are not liberal.
No, he hasn't "rethought" it, if his public statements are his true sentiments.
He still thinks the same way.
Too bad for the primitives.
Oh, and Bob Kerrey was foursquare behind George Bush in the War for the Liberation of Iraq, too.
The primitives can shove that up their rectal apertures and smoke it.
franksolich's current top candidate for Top DUmmie of 2012:
FrenchieCat (66,756 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
17. We can either be strategically smart and support him over the Republican, so that our numbers to maintain a majority in the senate have a better chance, or we can go for pure, and in deciding to make a case against him, as opposed to his opponent, we can help the Republicans regain the Senate, so they can exact their extremism on all of us to a point of no return--
It is our choice....but I can say that at the end of the day, supporting this Democrat ain't about looking for a progressive Mr. Kerrey....
it will be much more about us and our future.
In the forest are the trees.....not the other way around.
Kerrey's "reconsidering" a run for the U.S. Senate from Nebraska has just split the Nebraska Democrat party, itself already pretty small, and not looking to see any victories in November as it is, not even on the local level.
The primitives don't know excresence about Nebraska.
