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NJ is an affluent state with an abundance of jobs in R&D ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/40 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:42:57 Consider why our forefathers and all the leaders since then have not enacted a balanced budget amendment. The obvious reason to me is that they saw the need for the federal government - when warranted - could operate at a deficit. The need could be a war, a set of catastrophes or a time, like now, w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/38 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:19:12 in the budget bill. Instead, there was the Johanns amendment that prohibited using it.

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress - 1st Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On the Amendm... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/36 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:03:45 Someone on the Kerry group posted a link to Kerry's twitter account, and there was a nice oped Kerry wrote recently on this that contained a link to testimony he gave back in 1993, which is fascinating to see where Senators were on the issue then.

Here is an excerpt of that op-ed and the link:

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/34 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:22:34 The comment you reference is for the uncompleted 111th Congress - and the site also lists Sherrod Brown, the Senator I most often thing of as progressive, as weak as well. That led me to question which bills they were scoring and which they labeled as "progressive.



As they ranked Feingold ve... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/33 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:17:08 Dean's own preference, for a resolution would have been even easier for Bush to have violated.

Here is what he said on Face the Nation on September 29, 2002, shortly before the IWR vote.

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HOWARD DEAN: It’s very simple. Here’s what we ought to have done. We should have g... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/35 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:11:27 a long time - and the Commerce committee did not take it on. The same is true for the hearing he had on journalism, which at minimum got people speaking on the fate of [i]journalism [/i], not paper newspapers. You are right that he is doing his job here - but he deserves credit for looking at issues... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/31 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:41:26 That however ignores that he took the advice of people like Greenspan, Gramm, Rubin and most of his economic advisers to undo what they called archaic regulations that weren't needed in modern times. This was VERY wrong - they were the root without which this could not have happened. Bill Clinton di... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/30 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:31:36 Think of the important issues - and here are a few where the country would be worse off had Kerry not been there.

[b]Global Climate Change [/b] - In addition to praise from The President’s chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, James Connaughton, at this SFRC hearing http://www.senate.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/28 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:45:22 The economy has become more and more globalized and for many problems there is an important international aspect. The financial problem is a worldwide one and trade treaties are of increasing importance. The interesting thing is how Obama will get the economic team and the state department to work w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/27 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:01:08 He hit Bush harder than his VP, who should have been the attack dog did. At the end of the campaign Kerry was speaking of the fact that Bush's people left the KNOWN ammo dumps unsecured for months - and that ammo was beig used in the ied killing and maiming "our kids". Give me one charge in ANY camp... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/26 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:03:43 I drafted this letter that my husband got published in our local paper. (they limit you to one letter a month)

"Bill Rosen in his 9/20 letter to the editor repeats a constantly cited Republican talking point by saying that Barack Obama and John Kerry, along with Chris Dodd have received the most ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/25 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:15:22 As usual with Republican spin, it is simply not true. The CRA has been in existence since 1977. The Republicans tried to kill it in the 1990s and failed.

Here is a 2001 vintage article that shows the banks lobbied for deregulation. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E2DE163EF937A... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/24 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:16:20 Why this post - I'm lazy and want to save links because I am sick of the ABB garbage. These are all appearances with no "celebrity around - and show enthusiasm. (Also I thought others might like them - I like the You tube "related videos" feature as it finds these.

Primaries:
Before Iowa caucus ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/23 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:22:45 should have tried to help Kerry get the truth out - especially if they thought he was not doing enough. What he had done was already provided more than enough ammunition to use for people to defend him - and it was in Democrats vested interest to do so. I think that there was a sense -everywhere tha... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/22 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:17:36 you let the MSM off the hook for what was in reality a media condoned character assassination of Senator Kerry. There was then a second swiftboating after the narrow election loss by people with vested interests, either because they did not live up to their journalistic standards or they supported s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/21 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:14:21 First of all, Kerry spoke of Vietnam in 1971 and 1972 to force an end to war and to try to get help for vets. He did this on NATIONAL TV before the Senate and on Dick Cavett. This was as soon as he was out of the Navy - it was not legal until then and specifically why his last Admiral assigned him ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/20 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:10:20 Kerry is well positioned in the Senate - and was said to be the 12th most powerful person there recently. As McCain, Obama and Clinton were all placed higher, he will likely be in the top 10 after the election. (If McCain wins, both Obama and Clinton, who do not have the seniority that Kerry has wil... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/19 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:55:02 Kennedy won 58% to 41%. Reading the summary in the "Almanac of American Politics 1996" the credit given to the Clintons was that President Clinton hosted a very successful fundraiser. They also mention that Kennedy had a 60% approval rating in MA in April 1994. The concern was that 62% said it was t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/17 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:17:02 Maybe if the lameass governor of Arkansas had not SUPPORTED arming the rightwing thugs in Central America, he might have risked his career - as Kerry did his - to stand up against the Reagan administration using Mena, Arkansas to bring cocaine to the US and guns to Central America. Kerry investigate... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/16 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:42:12 If you had daughters or granddaughter they very likely did too.

There was no way that the feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s would have had the success that they did without piggybacking on the hard won achievements of the civil rights movement. It was the affirmative action legi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/15 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:09:18 It was February, 1992. His challenger, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran was calling him out as a draft dodger. This had the potential of again ripping the country apart over Vietnam. Another Senator,also a highly decorated veteran, who was friend of Clinton's challenger took to the floor of the Se... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/18 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:14:22 You make the issue [i]campaigning[/i] in fall 2004. The lack of support that I and many others have spoken of - with no Kerry quotes to back us up - are based on our observations of negative things he and his allied did - not anything not done. Some are:

1) Releasing his autobiography in July 200... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/14 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:16:02 This was likely a premeditated attempt to get attention and disrupt the Kerry event. The problem is that many here and elsewhere took the Miami Herald article and Meyer's own video as the complete truth. The first video available Monday night was on their site in their very biased story. The video w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/13 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:10:26 Don't you get that the media distorted someone who was always described as interesting, even by people who didn't like him. This is a war hero, a genuine activist, a person who at 27 was able to speak to the nation and move where they were on the war, a person willing to fight the mafia as a prosecu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/karynnj/37 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:27:28