John Kerry's Voting Record - RushOnline.com
JOHN
KERRY CAN'T HIDE FROM HIS VOTING RECORD
For years he has voted to cut the
military and Kerry has voted hundreds of times to raise your taxes.
So on
the seminal issue that defines his campaign for president – his Vietnam War record
-- John Kerry is either a liar or he is a war criminal. In either case, his words
and deeds from that sad era disqualify him for high public office. The subsequent
thirty-three years haven’t been so hot either. In the US Senate, John Kerry has
voted to gut intelligence spending by a cumulative $6 billion. He has voted to
cut defense spending 38 times. He’s voted to cut pay for military families 12
times. He voted against the death penalty for terrorists. He voted for the biggest
tax increase in US history. He voted against family-oriented tax relief like eliminating
the death Tax and the Marriage Penalty Tax. The non-partisan National Journal
has labeled him the Most Liberal Senator in Washington. He has authored only three
pieces of legislation in 19 years to become law.
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Open
Letter From Michigan Military Families to John Kerry Regarding His Stance on The
War on Terror George
W. Bush ^ | July 29, 2004
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JOHN KERRY'S DAY
AT NASA PHOTO ALBUM--- demsextrememakeover.com
Kerry Toured Shuttle That Supplies Space Station—He Voted Against ..... BUSH2004
- From Mona S. Losh
1991: Kerry Voted To "Reduce Funding For The Space
Station From $2 Billion To $100 Million," And Transfer Funds To Other Programs.
(H.R. 2519, CQ Vote #132: Rejected 35-64: R 3-40; D 32-24, 7/17/91, Kerry Voted
Yea)
1992: Kerry Voted To Terminate Space Station "Freedom" Project. (H.R.
5679, CQ Vote #194: Rejected 34-63: R 4-39; D 30-24, 9/9/92, Kerry Voted Yea)
1993:
Kerry Voted "To Terminate The Space Station Program."(H.R. 2491, CQ Vote #272:
Motion Agreed To 59-40: R 36-8; D 23-32, 9/21/93, Kerry Voted Nay
1993:
Kerry Voted To Terminate Space Station Program And Divert Funds To Tax Cuts. (H.R.
3167, CQ Vote #335: Motion Rejected 36-61: R 10-32; D 26-29, 10/27/93, Kerry Voted
Yea)
1994: Kerry Voted To Cut $1.9 Billion From Space Station Program And
Terminate Program. (H.R. 4624, CQ Vote #253: Rejected 36-64: R 6-38; D 30-26,
8/3/94, Kerry Voted Yea)
1994: Kerry Unsuccessful In Cutting Space Station
Funds Due To International Opposition. ("Space-Station," The Canadian Press, 2/22/94)
1995: Kerry Introduced Legislation To Eliminate Space Station And The National
Aerospace Plane Program. (Kathy Gambrell, "Aide: Kerry Supports NASA, But Not
Bush Space Program," Aerospace Daily, 5/4/04)
1996: Kerry Voted To Cut
$1.6 Billion From NASA's Human Space Flight Program And Terminate Space Station
Program. (H.R. 3666, CQ Vote #267: Motion Agreed To 61-36: R 38-12; D 23-24, 9/4/96,
Kerry Voted Nay)
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The
Crimes, Lies, Sins and Legacies of Leftist Democrats - By Joan Swirsky August
3, 2004
But Kennedy, Clinton and Berger are not running
for president; their ideological soul mate, John Kerry, is. It is Kerry who desperately
wants Americans to believe that he will "protect" America more effectively than
his opponent has, although throughout his campaign he has insisted that, "The
global terror threat has been exaggerated by the Bush administration." This is
no surprise coming from a man whose thinking is identical to Kennedy's, Clinton's
and Berger's when it comes to issues of national security and who, during his
nearly two-decade tenure in the Senate, has voted consistently and unfailingly
against military and intelligence spending, including the $87 million to support
our troops in Iraq. Kerry voted for the war in Iraq but failed to fund it, saying
that he was only in favor of "threatening" to use force in Iraq, when the resolution
clearly stated that "The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the
United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate."
No mention
of "threatening" at all. This is vintage Kerry, which is why the term flip-flopper
has stuck to him like Crazy glue. He has said he believes in strong defense but
voted to cut a billion dollars for counterterrorism after the first World Trade
Center bombing and to cut $1.5 billion from intelligence funding the following
year. He voted three times to exempt terrorists from the death penalty but then
changed his mind. He voted for the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill
but then changed his mind, setting up a soft-money PAC from which he has taken
hundreds of thousands of dollars from corporations, unions, etc. He said he was
against same-sex "marriages" but voted against the Defense of Marriage Act. He
voted for the No Child Left Behind Act but changed his mind. He voted for the
2001 Patriot Act but changed his mind. He voted against Desert Storm in 1991 but
changed his mind, writing to a constituent that he "supported" it. But then he
turned around and voted to slash over $3 billion from the defense budget. In 1992,
he voted to cut $6 billion from defense.
In 1993, he voted against increased
defense spending for military pay raises, and the same year he introduced a plan
to cut the number of Navy submarines and crews, reduce the number of light infantry
units in the Army and tactical fighter wings in the Air Force, terminate the Navy's
coastal mine-hunting ship program, and force the retirement of no fewer than 60,000
members of the armed forces in one year.
And every year since then, Kerry
has voted against every intelligence, military and defense budget, including for
the weapons that our servicemen and servicewomen are using throughout the world
today, among them B-2 stealth bombers, F-16 Fighting Falcons, M1 Abrams tanks,
Apache helicopters, Tomahawk cruise missiles, Bradley Fighting Vehicles and the
Aegis anti-aircraft system - the list goes on and on and on. And he was one of
only 12 senators (out of 87) to vote against funding for the protective Kevlar
vests worn by our troops. But Kerry voted to increase U.S. funding for U.N operations
by 800 percent! All this is not surprising, coming from a man who is rated, according
to his irrefutable voting record, as the No. 1 liberal in the U.S. Senate. Not
No. 2 or No. 3 or No. 4 - as his running mate, freshman senator Sen. John Edwards,
is - but No. 1!
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[Bush2004] Fw:
Kerry's voting record
Kerry's voting record:
He
voted to kill the Bradley Fighting Vehicle * He voted to kill the M-1 Abrams Tank
He
voted to kill every aircraft carrier laid down from 1988
He
voted to kill the Aegis anti aircraft system * He voted to Kill the F-15 Strike
Eagle
He voted to Kill the Block 60 F-16 * He voted to Kill
the P-3 Orion upgrade
He voted to Kill the B-1 * He voted
to Kill the B-2 * He voted to Kill the Patriot Anti Missile System
He
voted to Kill the FA-18 * He voted to Kill the B-2 * He voted to Kill the F117
In short, he voted to kill every military appropriation for
the development and deployment of every weapons systems since 1988 to include
the battle armor for our troops. With Kerry as president our Army will be made
up of naked men running around with sticks and clubs.
He also
voted to kill all anti terrorism activities of every agency of the U.S.Government
and to cut the funding of the FBI by 60%, to cut the funding for the CIA by 80%,
and cut the funding for the NSA by 80%.
But then he voted
to increase OUR funding for U.N operations by 800%!!!
Is THIS
a President YOU want?
From Bet
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IT'S
ALL IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
Warned Of Saddam Nuclear
And Biological Capabilities:
"It is not possible to overstate
the ominous implications for the Middle East if Saddam were to develop and successfully
militarize and deploy potent biological weapons. We can all imagine the consequences.
Extremely small quantities of several known biological weapons have the capability
to exterminate the entire population of cities the size of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.
These could be delivered by ballistic missile, but they also could be delivered
by much more pedestrian means; aerosol applicators on commercial trucks easily
could suffice. If Saddam were to develop and then deploy usable atomic weapons,
the same holds true." (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 11/9/97, pp. S12254
-S12255) ...
.Quotes from John Kerry taken verbatim from the
Congressional Record: Use Of Force Against Saddam Justified To Prevent WMD Production:
'[Saddam Hussein] cannot be permitted to go observed and unimpeded toward his
horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. This
is not a matter about which there should be any debate whatsoever in the Security
Council, or, certainly, in this Nation." (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record,
11/9/97, pp. S12254 -S12255)
Military Force Should Be Used
Against Suspected WMD
"In my judgment, the Security Council
should authorize a strong U.N. military response that will materially damage,
if not totally destroy, as much as possible of the suspected infrastructure for
developing and manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, as well as key military
command and control nodes.
Saddam Hussein should pay a grave
price, in a currency that he understands and values, for his unacceptable behavior.
This should not be a strike consisting only of a handful of cruise missiles hitting
isolated targets primarily of presumed symbolic value." (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional
Record, 11/9/97, pp. S12254 -S12255)
U.S. May Have To Go It
Alone To Stop Saddam:
"Were its willingness to serve in these
respects to diminish or vanish because of the ability of Saddam to brandish these
weapons, then the ability of the United Nations or remnants of the gulf war coalition,
or even the United States acting alone, to confront and halt Iraqi aggression
would be gravely damaged." (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 11/9/97, pp.
S12254 -S12255)
U.S. Must Do What It Has To Do, With Or Without
Other Nations:
"While we should always seek to take significant
international actions on a > multilateral rather than a unilateral basis whenever
that is possible, if in the final analysis we face what we truly believe to be
a grave threat to the well-being of our Nation or the entire world and it cannot
be removed peacefully, we must have the courage to do what we believe is right
and wise." (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 11/9/97, pp. S12254 -S12255)
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Check his voting records: http://www.vote-smart.org
or go here: http://capwiz.com/liberty/megavote/ OR... Naysayers & Democrats can
peruse the Congressional Record for themselves.
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