Ha! Coincidentally 11 Republicans supported the Bill. Looks like John was damned if he did and damned if he didn't.
Quote:
But a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, charged that Republicans engineered the vote to embarrass Kerry, suggesting that if he had been on hand Tuesday to vote for it, Republicans would have persuaded one of the 11 GOP senators who voted for the measure to change sides, killing it anyway.
Eleven Republicans sided with the Democrats in favor of the measure; one Democrat, Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia, sided with most of the Republicans who opposed it.
The 11 Senate Republicans who supported the benefits extension were John McCain of Arizona; Christopher Bond and Jim Talent of Missouri; Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island; Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine; Mike DeWine and George Voinovich of Ohio; Gordon Smith of Oregon; Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina.
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/11/kerry.vote/
Did: "John Kerry would rather waste time in Washington with the fatcats and bigwigs supporting legislation that didn't even have a hope of passing than spend time listening to the good folk of Kentucky. Is there something about Kentucky that SCARES John Kerry."
Didn't: "John Kerry doesn't do his job and won't take a stand. He rather sit on a campaign tour bus watching French movies on DVD and drinking Champagne from the mini bar."
echo...echo...echo...echo...
Personally I disagree with his choice. I would've taken a potentially Custerlike stand in Washington. Then again, I have the luxury of not being a person who's running for President.
