End of the line for Patrick Kennedy R.I. congressman won’t run for re-election

Boston Herald ^ | February 12, 2010 | Hillary Chabot, Edward Mason and O’Ryan Johnson

[Cementjungle]

I suspect he recently came into some money... no need to work any more.

[tsomer]

Heh... Another Democrat sees the light!

Not seen the light, he's felt the heat.

[Deagle]

Got that right... I’m assuming that the heat was intensive!...heh.

[Liz]

"Don't bat your eyes at me, Paddy, I won your daddy's seat.
You're dead meat now. And so are your liberal comrades."

[tanknetter]

“It was not going to be a cakewalk,” said Joe Fleming, who conducted the poll.

That's it, imho: the Kennedy sense of entitlement. Patches might actually have to work to win his seat and he stands a chance of losing. Can't have that ...

[I still care]

Democrats are finding out “Health Care Reform” is the new third rail of politics.

It sunk Clinton and now it is sinking Obama.

When Bush tried SS reform it got him too. However, to his credit, he was smart enough to let go, as was Clinton. Whether or not these things need to be done is not the point. The point is they are political poison.

Obama seems to have no such smarts.

[SamAdams76]

John Loughlin was going to be a formidable candidate. He's even more impressive than Scott Brown and more conservative. That is the real reason "Patches" is bowing out - it would have been another humiliating loss for the Kennedy family.

[101voodoo]

SS reform WILL happen and along the lines offered by Bush. It is not only the only way to save SS, it is the best way for every individual who works for a living.

[999replies]

JFK was a big government idiot, too. He also had the morals of Bill Clinton.

Amen.

[bjorn14]

Ding...Dong the Dynasty is dead...wooohoo. I believe for the first time in 53 years there will not be an elected Kennedy anywhere on the fruited plain. RIP

[Dixie Yooper]

The Brown Effect?

No, the Obama Effect.

[izzatzo]

This is almost too good to be true-another ‘rat POS bites the dust.

[rod1]

Well, have all members of the present generation of Camelot Kennedys been steriled? If not, then the answer is rather clear. To the Kennedys, private sector jobs are more offensive than they were to Maynard G. Crebbs (you have to be really old to know this reference).

[camle]

gettin’ outa Dodge ahead of the Lynch mob, eh patches?

[hotshu]

WORK!

[Joe Boucher]

Kennedy clan, Bush clan, Clinton clan, Rockafeller clan, and that ass Juan McLame and his puke of a daughter.
Just go the hell away.

[Guenevere]

...a bit of good news !....Thank-you Scott Brown, Tea Parties, Glenn Beck, Rush, Sarah Palin and all patriots !!

[rbg81]

A new direction, eh Pat? I guess now that Daddy isn’t around to disappoint anymore, he wants to drop the pretense and get on with snorting cocaine full time.

[Non-Sequitur]

I cannot believe that come January 2011 for the first time in my life there will not be a Kennedy in office in Washington. Never thought I’d live to see the day.

[jmaroneps37]

That will leave Barack as the last Kennedy brother in office, right Chrisie?