Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Christopher Dodd urged the president to nominate a mainstream conservative for the Supreme Court at a news conference earlier this month. (Reuters Photo)
Posted on 07/17/2005 11:23:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Christopher Dodd urged the president to nominate a mainstream conservative for the Supreme Court at a news conference earlier this month. (Reuters Photo)
WASHINGTON -- Senator Edward M. Kennedy's ringing baritone carried over the nearly empty Senate chamber, sounding a warning on a familiar subject. The liberal lion stood behind his desk in the chamber's last row and promised an aggressive and detailed grilling of whomever President Bush selects for the Supreme Court.
.....Cooperation and comity aside, Kennedy has made it clear that he will not hesitate to lead an effort to block a nominee whom he feels will not protect civil rights and personal freedoms. He was the first Democratic senator to hold a press conference after O'Connor announced that she is stepping down, where he warned that a filibuster will be in order if Bush nominates someone who ''threatens to roll back the rights and freedoms of the American people."
''I'm not going to change what I've stood for for 40 years in the Senate," Kennedy said. ''I take it very seriously with regards to the Supreme Court, because at the end of the day, this is the place where the rights and liberties of the American people are best protected."
There is a part of Kennedy that would appear to relish a fight, should it come to that. Shortly after the press conference he held in the aftermath of O'Connor's announcement, when a reporter mentioned to Kennedy that he has already been through 18 Supreme Court nominations, Kennedy quickly corrected him with a smile.
''It's 19, actually," he said, his eyes lighting up. ''Don't forget, when [William H.] Rehnquist went to chief justice, I led the fight on that one, too."
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What a bunch of pathetic, sycophantic journalistic fuzzballs.
Rick Klein, why are you kissing Kennedy's ass?
Is that a job requirement at the Boston Globe?
".....Cooperation and comity aside, Kennedy has made it clear that he will not hesitate to lead an effort to block a nominee whom he feels will not protect civil rights and personal freedoms."
Translation: Anyone who reads the constitution as it is and fails to force affirmative action and abortion on others will be opposed.
I can think of a lot of more appropriate phrases:
The liberal lush
The liberal loon
The liberal whale
The liberal perp
The liberal OJ
Stuff like that. But the liberal lion . . . just makes me laugh at the self-delusion of the author. I can almost guarantee the author that is not the first--or even the tenth--phrase that springs to the mind of normal Americans when they think of Ted.
Hey, he can at least pilot underwater Oldsmobiles! That takes a certain level of skill (or inebriation).
Now that's a head I'd like to see mounted!
Pretty good description - though I was think of a French division of 1940.
"The horror...the HORROR!"
Nice to see Colonel Kurtz survived Apocalypse now, and was elected Senator from a state full of Communist morons!
Here's to hoping "his woife will feed him lots of Chivas and Crown Royal, and bacon and eggs...so he can meet his true MASTER in hell soon!" (Channelling Julianne Malveaux)
Dorian Gray lives again.
Who said,"The Irish are ageless"? This guy's a wreck and he's only seventy one. More like "The face on the barroom floor".
Senator Edward M. Kennedy's ringing baritone drunken, and incoherent babble carried over the nearly empty Senate chamber, sounding a warning on a familiar subject beached whale wanting another glass of cheap whiskey.
Isn't applying the word "lion" to Ted Kennedy - however metaphorically - a little inappropriate? A lion is supposed to be brave, awe-inspiring, the king of the beasts. Ted Kennedy is, well, himself.
But I would like to see the president nominate a mainstream conservative - a mainstream Free Republic conservative.
"That this drunken, philandering, shirking, cheating, poltroon is still in the Senate is a disgrace."
You forgot murdering.
Kennedy is irrelevant.
All the Democrats are irrelevant.
The only people that have claim to legitimacy, however small, in proposed opposition would be the MSM and the RINO's. The RINO's are self evident as to why. The MSM only because the RINO's crave their approval.
I know the old lion likes to think he still matters, but he does not.
Lest we forget.
Well, he is a beast--just not a lion.
Ann Coulter - for O'Conner
Rush Limbaugh - for Rhenquist
Mark Levin - for Stevens
JRB - for Ginsberg
Looks good to me!
2006 - first "elected" in 1962.
And murderer -- for those who remember Mary Jo and the car that went off the bridge...
ooo... such impartiality in the press< /sarc>
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