Posted on 10/06/2009 11:04:22 PM PDT by JLS
Ave atque vale
I was overseas when Senator Edward Kennedy died, and a European reporter asked me what my “most vivid memory” of the great man. I didn’t like to say, because it didn’t seem quite the appropriate occasion. But my only close encounter with the Lion of the Senate was many years ago at Logan Airport late one night. A handful of us, tired and bedraggled, were standing on the water shuttle waiting to be ferried across the harbor to downtown Boston. A sixth gentleman hopped aboard, wearing the dark-suited garb of the advance man, and had a word in a crew-member’s ear, and so we waited, and waited, in the chilly Atlantic air, wondering which eminence was the cause of our delay. And suddenly there he was on the quay, looming out of the fog. He stepped aboard. The small launch lurched and rocked, waves splashed the deck, luggage danced in the air, and the five of us all grabbed for whatever rail was to hand as the realization dawned that we’d been signed up for a watery excursion with Senator Kennedy.
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Steyn ping opportunity.
I love Mark Steyn. He’s my favorite fill-in host for Rush.
None the less....
He left that Girl to Die.
He couldn’t have found a rock? smashed the back window just inches from the surface?
He never did any good for this country...
His last act was to twist the rules to His Benifit...then
twist them back...to his Benifit....
He was the W.C.Fields...Of Washington....only More Disgusting.
A Democrat to the max, Kennedy sought to purchse votes for his party by confiscation of funds from those who earned them and effectively donating them to the indigent (a pretty good definition of communist, actually); provided only that he and his family members were allowed to keep theirs. The term “Marxist Quisling” comes to mind.
Maybe we need a French-style revolution here...without the guillotine, of course. But, we definitely could get rid of the long-entrenched “aristocrats” of our society by kicking them out. I hope that in 2010 about 95% of the Congresspeople up for re-election, the ones who are “hard of hearing”, get the boot.
Heads must roll if there is to be justice. Just as you don't let a rapist walk free, those who raped our country (and continue their rape as we speak) must pay for their crimes. To simply allow them to retreat to private life would be a travesty, a sham, and a mockery.
A traveshamockery, even.
Okay, it strikes me that Mark and the other folks on the Logan water shuttle needn’t have been nervous. It’s not like Ted was going to have the conn.
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