Reply #54: The Globe has it in his edition today

[Mass]

I was wondering if they would cover, considering they had to cover the storm, but they did.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2011/01/12/partisanship_threatens_us_kerry_says/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Top+political+stories

Kerry calls partisanship a threat
US immobilized as other nations progress, he says

WASHINGTON — Corrosive partisanship is threatening to topple America as a leader in innovation, industry, and science, said US Senator John F. Kerry, stepping into the middle of a national debate about excessive partisanship and vitriol in the public square.

Kerry’s remarks, in a speech yesterday at a Washington think tank, come days after Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was critically wounded and six people were killed in a mass shooting in Tucson.

“Many observers have already reduced this tragedy to simple questions of whether overheated rhetoric is to blame,’’ said Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. The real issue, he said, is the violence that divisive, overly simplistic dialogue does to our democracy every day.

“There’s a bipartisan consensus just waiting to lift our country and our future if senators are willing to sit down and forge it and make it real, if we’re willing to stop talking past each other, to stop substituting sound bites for substance,’’ Kerry said.
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