Rep. Harold Ford, one of the brightest young Democratic lights in the House and a Senate candidate in Tennessee next year, stunned colleagues by endorsing the Supreme Court's unpopular Kelo decision. That ruling permitted a Connecticut city to seize homeowners' property and transfer it to private developers.
"We have a lot of properties in my city [Memphis] . . . that are crying out for development," Ford said on a Nashville radio talk show. The congressman asserted, "I've always been one to believe that individual rights is a big thing," but added, "there is some real value to this decision."
I see that going over real well with the folks in Tennessee.
Another Gem from Novak's collum
In an interview (with the Chicago suburban Daily Herald), Durbin was asked how his "right-wing" adversaries brought in Daley. "Bob Novak," Durbin replied, asserting that I told Daley what is supposedly my "side of the story." In fact, Daley made his comments in a June 21 press conference before I talked to the mayor.
"Unfortunately," said Durbin, "the mayor didn't know that we had put out a statement . . . about this," adding: "I don't think he knew the whole story." Actually, Daley was well aware of the senator's statement and regarded it an inadequate explanation of his comparison of U.S. soldiers at Guantanamo with Nazis, the Soviet gulags and Cambodia's Pol Pot.
So once again Dick says "What I said wasn't bad, it was just those vast right wing conspiracy guys... they tricked the mayor with their evil right wing trickery"
Yeah... I am sensing a good year for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
This with Chuck Schummer calling for going to the matresses... any wonder these guys are in the minority?
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