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[Video] Kennedy Flips Out on House Floor; Shouts "shameful" US Policy Putting Soldiers in Harm's Way
Associated Content (AC) ^ | March 11, 2010 | Marc Schenker

Posted on 03/11/2010 2:01:44 AM PST by Suvroc10

Patrick Kennedy, Rhode Island congressman, flipped out on the House floor yesterday, furiously shouting that "shameful" US policy was needlessly putting soldiers in harm's way in Afghanistan. The congressman's explosion during a 3-minute allotment of time came during debate on a Democrat, anti-war resolution written by diminutive Dennis Kucinich, which called for all US soldiers to be out of Afghanistan within 30 days. Curiously, however, Kennedy, for all his unhinged screaming against US policy, still voted against Kucinich's resolution. Kennedy, who has oftentimes been the subject of ultra-humiliating public incidents involving sobriety problems and addiction issues, also found time to assail the US media, cursing them for apparently not focusing enough on Afghanistan and all the treasure spent there in terms of blood and money.

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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; kennedy; patrickkennedy; shouts
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1 posted on 03/11/2010 2:01:45 AM PST by Suvroc10
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To: Suvroc10
Out of A-stan in 30 days? Is Kucinich nuts? What would we do with all the military hardware in the AoR? Give it to the Taliban?

Stupid, stupid, stupid, pipe dream, out-of-touch-with-reality.

2 posted on 03/11/2010 2:17:08 AM PST by Sarajevo (You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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To: Suvroc10

And the funny thing was he was “recognized” as the gentlmen from Massachusetts and he had to correct her and say Rhode Island.

Couple more years and he’ll be fat, an alcoholic, and rape or kill someone.. gotta keep up the family name.


3 posted on 03/11/2010 2:21:02 AM PST by maddog55 (OBAMA, Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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To: maddog55

Poster boy for adding mental health care to reform.


4 posted on 03/11/2010 2:26:18 AM PST by Phillipian
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To: Suvroc10

Hic!


5 posted on 03/11/2010 2:26:57 AM PST by Fresh Wind ("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
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To: Suvroc10

Like father, like son.


6 posted on 03/11/2010 2:29:33 AM PST by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: Sarajevo
Its sheer, cynical, rabble-rousing, playing-to-the-crowds politics. The sponsors of this bill know full well it would be physically impossible to pull all the troops out of Afghanistan in that timescale, even if it were advisable - and it certainly would NOT be advisable to tell the taliban that such a thing was planned.

BUT, by putting this bill forward they can establish a trendy reputation as "peacelovers" and moral anti-war warriors, while at the same time implying their opponents (basically anyone with any logic) are unreasoning warmongers who are ok with women and children being blown up and US soldiers coming home in bodybags to grieving relatives. I hate that kind of play. Its manipulative, its cynical and its unfair. Shame on them.

7 posted on 03/11/2010 2:38:46 AM PST by Vanders9
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To: Fresh Wind

We have just experienced yet another ...
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8 posted on 03/11/2010 2:39:12 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (ONLINE TAX REVOLT 150,000 AND GROWING. http://www.onlinetaxrevolt.com)
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To: Suvroc10

It’s a shame, because with a little training he could have been a pretty good second shift manager at the Dunkin Donuts in Pawtucket.


9 posted on 03/11/2010 2:50:11 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: Suvroc10

A sad display of mental illness.


10 posted on 03/11/2010 2:50:18 AM PST by iowamark
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I was kinda thinking the same thing...a guy whose medication ran low and he didn’t realize it.

But here’s the thing...how many senators and congressmen have a serious mental disease and take medication daily? How many should be in a mental institute?


11 posted on 03/11/2010 3:07:43 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Suvroc10

furiously shouting that “shameful” US policy was needlessly putting soldiers in harm’s way in Afghanistan.

^
I agree, more fire power and bigger bombs would keep them out of harms way


12 posted on 03/11/2010 3:11:56 AM PST by Son House ("Warning! Warning!" "That does not compute" "Danger, Will Robinson!""Oh, the pain...the pain!")
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To: Sarajevo
Details, details..not something Kucinich has ever bothered with.

To Dennis,

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

13 posted on 03/11/2010 3:21:20 AM PST by Recon Dad ( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 142)
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To: Suvroc10

His FATHER SCREAMED ALL the time, also!!!


14 posted on 03/11/2010 3:23:46 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Suvroc10

Drunk like the late Teddy? Sure looked it!


15 posted on 03/11/2010 3:43:02 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Ann Archy

Oh the drama!

He probably hoped to do a Jack Nicholson *tour de force* to get some attention.

Sorta, kinda backfired;)


16 posted on 03/11/2010 3:43:29 AM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: Suvroc10

The drunken anti-american apple doesn’t fall far from the drunken anti-american tree.


17 posted on 03/11/2010 3:50:08 AM PST by drpix
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To: Suvroc10

Ambien Defense being rolled out by Patches’ handlers in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...


18 posted on 03/11/2010 4:06:57 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: iowamark

A sad display of mental illness.

I disagree, he was as High as a Georgia Pine. Stoned.

Rehab failed.


19 posted on 03/11/2010 4:07:22 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Suvroc10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q-VGZiEbrs


20 posted on 03/11/2010 4:17:13 AM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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