The National Republican Senatorial Committee, a group that tries to get G.O.P. senators elected, put out a new — and, frankly pretty silly in its footage — Web video congratulating Mr. Kerry on his nine-year anniversary of not passing legislation.
The video even uses a line from the classic ‘99 flick “Office Space” to deride Mr. Kerry for his Senate laziness. “Yeeeahhhh, I’m gonna need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow,” says the delightfully creepy boss Bill Lumbergh.
The Kerry camp fired back on its own: “N.R.S.C. must stand for ‘Nobody Really Shows Competence,’ ” said David Wade, a spokesman for Mr. Kerry. “When people get their facts this wrong they usually lose on the first round of ‘Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?’ ”
Then he added some hard facts:
In just the last two years, John Kerry has written and passed legislation that denied congressional pensions to corrupt members of Congress like Duke Cunningham, passed legislation to establish eye injury centers for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, secured $13 million in disaster assistance for Massachusetts fishermen and put the Senate on record condemning Burma’s military junta.
One of Mr. Kerry’s challengers in the Massachusetts Senate race, Jim Ogonoski, plays on the same theme as the N.R.S.C. at his campaign Web site.
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