Kerry Makes A Fool Of Himself, Again

John Kerry was down stumping in Hollywood, FL today and came up with a real gem of a quote. The AP is reporting on his quote about Bush being a divider, not a uniter, but on the local news tonight, I saw an even better one.

Bush was out in Texas, at a rodeo. Kerry decided to take his shots, saying (I wish I could find an article with this statement, but so far I've only seen it on a video on WFTV's 5 pm newscast in Orlando):

(paraphrased due to lack of quote transcription) If George Bush has enough time to go to a rodeo for a day, he certainly has enough time to give a Homeland Security commission on 9/11 more than one hour.

The exact wording may be off, but you get the gist of the quote. Kerry is claiming that by campaigning for reelection that Bush is somehow being derelict in his duty. That seems like it could be a fair criticism (although I would argue that since he was only at the rodeo for an hour, and he was on Air Force One while in transit, he probably did manage to get a few Presidentially-like things done), so how does John Kerry's record show that he would stack up in the responsibility department?

Let's see, according to his hometown Boston Herald, Kerry came to work approximately 36% of the time last year, and hasn't bothered to make a working appearence yet this year (he did show up for a token soundbite vote on gun control however).

Well, gee. That is certainly a much better record than Bush with his 4 hour foray (if that) to Daytona for the 500 and an hour at a rodeo!

I know that my employer would just be thrilled if I managed to drag myself to do something a little more than once every three days. I'm sure that they would be fine if come March I hadn't bothered to show up to actually do anything worthwhile yet this year. And they would certainly be most understanding if I told them that the reason I wasn't doing anything was because I was out pounding the pavement and pressing the flesh looking for another job. Yeah, they'd understand.

Meehan said Kerry has missed no roll calls in the past 14 months in which his vote would have altered the outcome.

You know, up until 2000, I had never voted in anything in which my vote would have altered the outcome. Is Senator Kerry so prescient that he can foresee the value of his vote on any given issue? Or his simply gambling that he won't miss the most critical vote of the year?

Senators are employed and paid to debate and deliberate about pressing legislative matters before them and then to pass judgment on those issues by voting. Kerry's spokesman was correct when he said the voting is just one...part of being a senator. Unfortunately, he included the word "small" in the sentence, and voting is not a small part of being a senator - it is the very reason for being a Senator. We elect senators to vote in our stead. When John Kerry goes off campaigning instead of voting in the Senate he is disenfranchising his constituents.

Kerry needs to get a clue. He is not so important as to live by different rules than the rest of us (his desires notwithstanding). Anybody else with his job performance would have been fired and deservedly so. By US Code, he should have been docked pay, but that hasn't happened either. And I can't recall having seen any mention of the Senator returning any of his ill-gotten gains, despite the fact that he is one of the servants (yes he is nothing more than a public servant. Oh how that word must chap his hide....) who needs it the least.

Those who live in glass houses should not cast stones....