Please! Somebody Pay Attention To Me!

Poor John Kerry. Discarded by his party like yesterday's Howard Dean, and trying to regain some relevance.

"John Kerry's returned to the Senate to be a voice for the 57 million Americans who voted for a new direction on November 2nd," David Wade said. "Anyone who knows John Kerry understands he's a fighter, and he's fighting with all his energy for the issues that have been his passion for decades, and he won't allow anyone in Washington to retreat from the promise of health care or a foreign policy that makes America safe. I don't envy the Tom DeLay Republicans who stand in his way."

But, of course, the vast right wing conspiracy is still trying to humiliate him.

The Massachusetts senator's prominent perch at the inauguration Thursday, just to the left of President Bush, underscores the difficulty of returning in the glare of Republican domination of Washington.
"It was very awkward," a Democratic aide said of the seat Mr. Kerry was assigned at the front edge of the inaugural balcony. "They wanted to embarrass him."
Mr. Kerry privately expressed discomfort about the location of his seat. He speculated that Republicans wanted to position him so television cameras could easily capture his reaction to Mr. Bush's speech.