Progressive Ruminations

Mr. Kerry, the Democratic presidential contender, scrapped a speech and a fund-raiser in Albuquerque on Tuesday to fly here from Denver overnight in order to support an amendment to a military spending bill on veterans health care. But procedural delays on the Senate floor, under control of Republicans, kept him from saying "aye" before flying back across the country Tuesday evening to San Francisco, where he plans to speak at a labor union convention on Wednesday.