Kerry's Krummy Komment

Tim, husband of the Iraq deployed CPT Patti, has a good run down on John Kerry's recent comment:

"I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it."

- John F. Kerry, March 16, 2004. defending his vote against the Iraq supplemental funding bill, a bill to ensure the Soldiers had the tools they need to do the job we gave them.

What the heck? Talk about your typical political double speak. No, I take that back, that's not double speak, that was pretty much the plain truth. Tim quotes a letter to Jonah Goldberg in the NRO:

[Kerry's] stance is that he voted for an amendment that would have approved the $87 billion if the tax cuts were rolled back. Without that in the bill he voted against it.

This should be spun, "Kerry valued raising taxes more than he valued giving our troops the support they needed."

We have him taking both sides. We have a tax increase. We have a vote against the troops. All in one baker's dozen of words.