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July 26, 2005

John Kerry Wins Congressional Medal of Chutzpah

Posted by Dave Blount at July 26, 2005 5:32 PM

Bad enough Kerry stalled for months on end after promising repeatedly to sign the Standard Form 180 and release his military records to the public. Bad enough that when he finally did apparently sign it, the records were released not to the public, but to his fawning acolytes at the LA Times and Boston Globe — and whether these records were complete remains very much in doubt.

But now he has compounded his unseemly behavior by screeching for the White House, according to AP, "to release all of Roberts' working papers from his time during the Reagan and George H.W. Bush years."

Kerry, by the way, is not a member of the Judiciary Committee. But apparently his heartfelt conviction that public servants' records must be made known in their entirety means so much to him that he just couldn't keep his mouth shut.

The reluctance of Senator Jean François to share his own records seems to have something to do with not wanting to corroborate claims made by his brothers in arms in the book Unfit for Command. These include the accusation that, knowing that three Purple Hearts added up to a ticket home, Kerry gamed the system to acquire them. Too bad Congress doesn't award medals for shamelessness and gall. I'm sure he would have collected more than enough to qualify for a one-way ticket back to Massachusetts years ago.

Thanks to Barb for the tip.