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Originally posted by irateplatypus
Kerry submitted his proposal in late september, only four days after the news about this supposed broke in papers. Taking into account the work necessary in drafting legislation coupled with the very recent discovery of this potential mismanagement. This leads me to believe that the cuts proposed by Kerry were unaffected by this development. His remarks on the senate floor a year and a half later about the state of our intelligence budget solidifies that hypothesis.
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This is pure speculation on your part. How many term papers did you pull all nighter to write in college? It doesn't seem implausable to write a bill in 4 days. Maybe Kerry had information *before* the news broke in the papers. Senators know a lot of things before they are released to the general public.
irateplatypus, you and Superbelt are arguing about the ins and outs of a bill that was voted on over a decade ago. Though the congressional record is good, it isn't the whole story. There's lots of wheeling and dealing that goes on behind the scenes that never makes it to the congressional record. That's why there's value in having analysis. It seems to me that this kind of speculation is mostly pointless unless you're an expert in that particular feild and time period, which I doubt anyone here is.
The Bush campaign has engaged in disingenuously distorting Kerry's voting record, I thought we'd all agreed to the premise of the thread.
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Originally posted by irateplatypus
i agree that it is misleading for the ads to imply that kerry deliberately voted against these systems by themselves.
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