Sometimes you have to do things from wherever you happen to be, eh?
The real question of the media is - why did they just perpetuate the silly meme and not bother mentioning who else was attending the conference? You know, like a few Senate republicans?
Of course the media is simplistic and sometimes biased, and it's the job of the ideologues to help change that. But the essential pragmatic element means dealing in the context of what is, not what should be. Get a different Senator to "begin" the push. Or fly Kerry back to DC for a day. Or even fly him to London for some BS reason. Just do anything other than what was done.
And that's just one example that illustrates a much larger point that would survive even if the Kerry/Davos decision wasn't a screw-up (which, in my opinion, it unquestionably was).
You could maybe expand on that. Exactly what "business" compelled Kerry to attend Davos? Personal? National? What?
If filibustering Alito was so important why did he have to go to Davos in the first place? And then cut his trip short just when the action was starting? Whether or not a couple of Republicans were there or not is immaterial. Kerry chose to launch a filibuster, an action where you can only participate if you are actually on the floor of the Senate, from Davos. When called on the absurdedness he bails on Davos and comes home.
Come on. Kerry thought he could get a cheap score by pandering on dKos and never thought the whole thing would blow up in his face. If he was serious about Alito he would have spent the last week working the Refs back home and not jetting off the Switzerland.
Gee, unlike dubya, some people can keep more than one thought in their heads at one time. It's a frickin' World Economic Forum. John Kerry is the ranking member of what Senate subcommittee?
Let's see who else attended:
Either filibustering Alito is so imporatant that we do something almost unprecedented in US history or rubbing shoulders with Wolfowitz, Zoellick and Portman is critical. That Kerry chose to fly to Davos and then subsequently chose to fly home right in the heart of the Conference shows that he is not serious about either.
Man the defensiveness on this issue makes you want to wrap yourself in tinfoil.
Who needs tinfoil hats when we have the likes of you recycling republican talking points, memes, and frames?
