Written by Amy Payne and Luke Coffey

Senator John Kerry (D-MA) is likely to be confirmed today as the next Secretary of State after sailing through a Senate hearing last week. What does this mean for America and its foreign policy?

As Heritage’s Helle Dale wrote after last week’s hearing:

The bad news for the United States is that Kerry is President Obama’s ideological twin and can be expected to enthusiastically embrace the Obama doctrine and continue the Administration’s pursuit of arms control, international treaties, and climate-change agreements. This is a classic liberal agenda, which will only lead to a further erosion of American global leadership.

Though Kerry talked... http://blog.heritage.org/2013/01/29/morning-bell-john-kerry-president-ob...