Dick Cheney's legislative accomplishments--both of them

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From the Kerry blog:

Congressman John Spratt (D-SC), ranking member on the House Budget Committee, made the following remarks on a call today:

“Dick Cheney served in the Congress for 11 years. I served with him for most of these years. In that time, he only passed two bills. One was to build a flood plain on the Colorado River and the other was a bill to help a constituent. What’s even more telling about Dick Cheney’s record in the House is not what he supported but what he opposed – things like Headstart and funding for seniors. It seems pretty dishonest for Bush and Cheney to be attacking John Kerry - who passed 57 bills in the Senate – for his legislative accomplishments.”

http://blog.johnkerry.com/blog/archives/003474.html#more

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Let's get real. The Republican rightwing agenda is nihilist, no more, no less. "Minimalist" doesn't even begin to describe their antipathy towards democratic government. The only use they have for government is to provide handouts for the rich and powerful. That destructive attitude explains the "failures" of their domestic and foreign policies--they were never intended to accomplish anything real.

In the words of Walter Sobchak: "Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos."