Three SUVs, a Yacht, and a Private Jet. Not exactly the possessions of someone funneling money to environmental causes. Teresa Heinz Kerry is on the boards of charitable foundations that shell out tons of money to environmentalists. But she and her husband have a lot of gas guzzlers in their garages, docks, and hangars. (FOX News)
Promoting the Fox who Guarded the Henhouse. The CIA missed 9/11. Then they convinced the nation we’d find WMDs in Iraq. Now they need a new head honcho. Who does the President tap? How about the Chairman of the House Committee that’s supposed to keep tabs on the CIA so they don’t goof up? The Committee that goofed up by never catching problems at CIA? Makes no sense, right? Oh, yeah. The guy’s from Florida, and the President needs votes there. Now does it make sense?
Drug Poll. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds that older Americans like prescription drug plans embraced by the Kerry campaign: allowing people to buy prescriptions in Canada, and letting Uncle Sam negotiate prescription prices with drug companies. Four-fifths of older Americans like the ideas. (MSNBC)
All Aboard. An Amtrak conductor has been kicked off the train for campaigning against John Kerry while on the job. Conductor Leslie Farr’s train was delayed by Kerry’s campaign train in Missouri. So Farr got on the PA system, told passengers Kerry’s train was responsible for the delay. He suggested they remember that at the polls. Farr, in addition to being a conductor is also a Republican Congressional candidate. (USA Today)
