John Kerry Needs His Mouth Sewn Shut

No, seriously. I’ve been mulling it over since last Thursday when the Patriot Act got renewed.

Mostly I’ve been quietly seething as that’s just another nail in the coffin of our dying civil liberties and freedoms and my first impulse was to write a post about how every single one of those Senators who voted to renew the Patriot Act should be voted out of office when their seat came up — which is saying a lot since I actually like Snowe, Collins, Baucus, Vitter, and up until very recently McCain. However, I decided to sit on it and think on it.

I’m still not happy with any of the Senators who voted “yea” for the Patriot Act renewal. Obviously my lobby money didn’t go into the right pockets. I can almost excuse the Republicans because for some reason they believe they have to be conformists and vote with the party; they don’t believe in voting based on what’s right for their specific constituents — which is why I’ll be thinking hard when I go to the polls this fall.

However, it’s hard to forgive the Democrats because they seem to be all talk and no action. And the worst of them is John Kerry. John Kerry should have shown some back bone here. It’s very disappointing to me. I mean, I’m one of the few that actually believed in John Kerry and voted for John Kerry because I believed in his message. I didn’t just vote for him because he wasn’t George Bush like so many others did.

So, I’ve been thinking about it and I believe that with that vote last Thursday, when John Kerry voted “yea”, he gave up any right he had to ever say another negative thing about the Bush administration, the loss of freedoms, and the war in Iraq. He’s proven he’s just as bad as George Bush because he says one thing and he does something else. I’m tired of the both of them.

tags: John Kerry, Democrats, Patriot Act, Senate, loss of Freedoms

4 comments

1. on March 7, 2006 at 5:30 pm

   Big Dog said:

   I think that it is interesting to note that the Republicans vote the party line despite what America wants when a majority of AMerica supports the core beliefs. It is hard to look at a red and blue map and not see that the majority has a conservative bent. The blue areas are large population centers and the Democrats pander to them and vote against what most people want because of votes. Case in point, the Roberts and Alito confirmations. The majority of Americans believed they should have been confirmed yet most Democrats voted against them for partisan reasons. They were not echoing the will of their constituents.

   As for Senators, they represent a state. If they vote how their state wants then they are voting the will of their constituents. I don’t see the Patriot Act as an erosion. I had a discussion about this with someone who told me that library records and computer use could be looked at. Well, taxpayers pay for those things so they have a right to know how they are being used.

   I do not see any way my rights have been eroded since 9/11. I have the same ones I did then.

2. on March 7, 2006 at 5:30 pm

   Big Dog said:

   PS. You are right about Kerry. I told you this stuff last year….

3. on March 7, 2006 at 8:40 pm

   n. mallory said:

   And yet, now airport security has the right to take my friend’s 9 year old son into a separate room to search and interrogate either or both of them and she can say nothing about it. They didn’t have that right before 9-11. Why should they now?

   I don’t agree that Republicans are just voting how their states want them to. That certainly doesn’t explain Snowe or Collins…and I really hope they start paying attention because I’m starting to hear some grumbling from the local masses.

   I will say that I much prefer my correspondence with Sen. Snowe than with Sen. Collins. Now if Sen. Snowe would just stop holding her nose when voting the party line and stop voting the party line, life in Maine would be a little warmer for her.

4. on March 7, 2006 at 10:42 pm

   Big Dog said:

   The Patriot Act is not what allows them to search 9 year olds. It is the ACLU and lawsuits that fight profiling. You see, we can not search Arab men between the ages of 17 and 45 despite the fact that this demographic is responsible for all the acts of terror in God knows how long.

   Instead we search 9 year old kids and blue haired old ladies neither of which demographic has ever been a terrorist.

   Thanks to the ACLU and groups like them, your rights are gone.

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