Bush and Dole Agree: Shiftless Kerry Should Quit Senate

Prominent Republicans are jumping to voice approval of Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey's call for John Kerry to quit the Senate job he gets paid for but refuses to do.

Bob Dole, who resigned from the Senate in early June 1996 to run against Bill Clinton, said on CNN yesterday: "I think that would be a message to the American people. They didn't get my message, that I was willing to give up something, but it might be something John would want to consider."

President Bush's campaign agreed. "I'm sure that the Romney administration feels the people of Massachusetts deserve more than just one senator representing them in the U.S. Senate," Bush spokesman Kevin Madden said.

'We'd Be Fired'

As Healey noted, "If any of us attended our job only 13 percent of the time, we'd be fired."

Although Kerry has kept close ally Teddy Kennedy out of sight recently now that he has to try to appeal to mainstream America, Massachusetts' senior U.S. senator came out of hiding yesterday to call the growing chorus "nonsense."

As we've pointed out, Kerry is apparently taking his cue from Democrat former veep wannabes Joe Lieberman and Lloyd Bentsen: expecting to lose his bid for the White House and needing something to fall back on.

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