WASHINGTON — Senator John F. Kerry used his experience and relationships in the Senate to help secure more Navy ships for coastal combat, boosting Massachusetts technology jobs. Senator Joe Lieberman, an independent, fought hard to protect Connecticut’s submarine-building franchise. Olympia J. Snowe, Maine’s moderate Republican, built a reputation ensuring Bath Iron Works continued hammering out destroyers.
But now this powerful trio of veteran New England senators is gone, sapping the region’s political clout. Snowe and Lieberman retired and, on Tuesday, Kerry won confirmation as secretary of state.
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C'mon...we still have Lizzie! hahahahahahahahahaha.............
Boy...I sure wish we had McConnel, Cornyn, and/or Inhofe...those reactionaries really know how to get nothing done!
and as a bonus they hate the poor and middle class as well! True patriots!
"Warren did not respond to requests for comment and declined to discuss the issue when approached outside the Senate chamber."
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We seem to be developing a pattern here. Oh well, only 5 years and 11 months more of "no comment".
David _ David _ David . . . how could you forget the chest-thumping, head-shaking professor?
Submarine construction and maintenance and Navy warships under threat for three New England states. And Massachusetts has a bankruptcy professor and maybe a tree-hugging, mass electronics poobah if the Demomob has its way. What significant senators this state will be represented by. Neither the elected Harvardian or the does he or doesn't he live in Malden cares a whit about military matters, except to oppose most. Never mind that Connecticut and Rhode Island counted on Joe Lieberman for the eastern Connecticut Navy submarine bases and their Rhode Island annexes. And Bath Iron Works' building frigates and destroyers in competition with Ingalls in Mississippi and a yard in Virgina, and refueling submarines at Kittery, both solid Maine economic gems. But Massachusetts gets one Harvardian pigeon (scuse, that's dove) and little hope of . . . Oh never mind. The world is changing and the Bay State has some never-heard-of-him called Cowan as its next senator pro tem. Golly gee willikers....
We don't need the military; we have guns. Next?
We do have Elizabeth Warren (the senior senator from MA) and now "Mo" Cowan. WOW