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Kennedy on MSNBC Demanding to Run Alito Hearing
PMSNBC | 1/11/06

Posted on 01/11/2006 10:35:20 AM PST by pabianice

In case you missed it, Ted Kennedy was just on MSNBC (and ONLY on MSNBC) demanding a subpoena from Sen. Spectre for 20-year-old copies of a conservative Princeton publication housed in the Library of Congress. Clearly deranged, cloudy-eyed, and stumbling over his words, Kennedy met with what was clearly a hand-picked group of wholly supportive reporters to make his demand 'so that the Alito Hearing committee members can fully investigate the rumor that Alito belonged to a conservative group' that did not support the Cookoo-Bird Leftist agenda that is Kennedy's base.

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KEYWORDS: 109th; alito; alitohearings; drunkenidiot; hearings; kennedy; scotus; specter; spector; tedkennedy
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To: pabianice

After hearing Biden, Schumer and Kennedy bloviate about the Constitution I'd be willing to bet you could put a copy of it next to a breakfast menu and they would have trouble picking which was which. The only thing going for them would be the 50/50 chance.


21 posted on 01/11/2006 11:14:52 AM PST by TigersEye (Regime change in the courts. Impeach activist judges!)
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To: DarthVader
Ted's just pissed because his '67 Olds Delta 88' is not drawing too much cash on EBay!

;-)

22 posted on 01/11/2006 11:21:34 AM PST by beyond the sea ("If someone is callin' you from Al Queda, we want to know why.")
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To: RouxStir; Old Seadog

It's not a good way if he does a Strom Thurmond. Although I'm not sure his liver will last that long.


23 posted on 01/11/2006 11:26:12 AM PST by hattend (I wanna go through the Stargate!)
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To: hattend

And the Mass numbnuts are going to re-elect this bucket of chitterlings back to the Senate again! Seriously, we need term limits, because people keep voting back in the same old corrupt, old-ass, politicians every election. Fricking two-thirds of the Senate are over 60 years old....


24 posted on 01/11/2006 11:26:58 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (None genuine without my signature)
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To: hattend
His liver shouldn't last that long.
25 posted on 01/11/2006 11:28:16 AM PST by kassie
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I agree. Feinstein is up for reelection this year. We'll see that old skank back in January 07.


26 posted on 01/11/2006 11:29:43 AM PST by hattend (I wanna go through the Stargate!)
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To: All

So why does a Senator need a supoena to access Library of Congress documents?

If he doesn't know how to go about obtaining the materials
(if they do indeed exist) in the more usual fashion, I'm certain many staffers on Capitol Hill, from either political party, could show Teddy how it is done.

This type of grandstanding behavior (demanding a Senate committee for the "sole purpose for issuing the subpoena of those records") does not help our Nation.





27 posted on 01/11/2006 11:55:07 AM PST by 7MMmag (I'll see your feminist activist judge, and raise you one "constructionist" judge....)
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To: 7MMmag
He he - like your nom de web. Better choice than .30 - '06 any day.

Kennedy is simply trying to create the appearance of a cover up or stone-walling by the Republicans. The sad truth is these 'hearings' have no relevance on their vote. If they can stir up enough of the usual sheep voters via the media portrayal of such supposed obfuscations and 'unsatisfactory' answers to their questions, then they hope to justify a filibuster to the public.

The irony of Kennedy blustering is that he has p.o.'d Specter - who, if nothing else, cares about Specter. So, abortion proponent or not, Specter will vote Alito out of committee and onto SCOTUS if simply to prove that no one messes with His Comboverness, Arlen the Soporific. Rant on, Ted. Blow harder, Constitution Waver Boy.

I long to see Ted spluttering with impotent rage when he and the rest of his lemmings follow Howling Dean like MoveOn lemmings over the edge to filibuster - and get their backs permanently broken like a Celebrity Death Match of Hillary versus a El Rushbo. No more filibuster, and they destroy any public credibility they might have spewing on about how righteous they are to oppose this 'radical'.

If they actually get the polls up for Dubya enough, maybe Rove will let him nominate someone we really want when Stevens keels over. Can you say 'Son of Bork - the Triumphant Return!'?
28 posted on 01/11/2006 12:17:10 PM PST by Benkei (Yada yada)
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To: hattend; BlackElk
It's not a good way if he does a Strom Thurmond. Although I'm not sure his liver will last that long.

Be careful what you ask for. It is not as if Massachusetts will elect a Sam Brownback or Paul Laxalt to replace ol' Ted. Ted cannot get any more seniority than he has already, he is blocking the way for more able (and just as ideologically evil) junior senators from promotion, and he is a unifying force (even more than HRC) and who repulses most people outside of New England.

Also, the Irish in me wants him to live to see the entire family legacy die, and his prestige atrophy further as the old left dodders off into the crypt, beckoning him to join them.

The Catholic in me wishes he'd repent, and make a fresh start, but he has made it clear that he's not too interested in that.
29 posted on 01/11/2006 12:18:15 PM PST by sittnick (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: sittnick

Hmmm... you bring up good points and have convinced me.

May Teddy live a long, Chivas soaked life (errk!)


30 posted on 01/11/2006 12:36:02 PM PST by hattend (I wanna go through the Stargate!)
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To: pabianice

REMEMBER ME?
My name is Mary Jo Kopechne.

I would have been 65 years of age this year.

Read about me and my killer below:

When Sen. Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloating on Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore his deplorable past.

But now that he's become a leading Republican attack dog, positioning himself as Washington's leading arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such indulgence are now over.

It's time for the GOP to stand up and remind America why this chief spokesman had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 - time to say the words "Mary Jo Kopechne" out loud.

As is often the case, Republicans have deluded themselves into thinking that most Americans already know the story of how this "Conscience of the Democratic Party" left Miss Kopechne behind to die in the waters underneath the Edgartown Bridge in July 1969, after a night of drinking and partying with the young blonde campaign worker. But most Americans under 40 have never heard that story, or details of how Kennedy swam to safety, then tried to get his cousin Joe Garghan to say he was behind the wheel.

Those young voters don't know how Miss Kopechne, trapped inside Kennedy's Oldsmobile, gasped for air until she finally died, while the Democrats' leading Iraq war critic rushed back to his compound to formulate the best alibi he could think of.

Neither does Generation X know how Kennedy was thrown out of Harvard on his ear 15 years earlier -- for paying a fellow student to take his Spanish final. Or why the US Army denied him a commission because he cheated on tests.

As they listen to the Democrats' "Liberal Lion" accuse President Bush of "telling lie after lie after lie" to get America to go to war in Iraq, young voters don't know about that notorious 1991 Easter weekend in Palm Beach when Uncle Teddy rounded up his nephews for a night on the town, an evening that ended with one of them credibly accused of rape.

It's time for Republicans to state unabashedly that they will no longer "go along with the gag" when it comes to Uncle Ted's rants about deception and moral turpitude inside the Bush White House.

And if the Republicans don't, let's do it ourselves by passing this forgotten disgrace around the Internet to wake up memories of what a fraud and fake Teddy really is.

The Democratic Party should be ashamed to have the national disgrace from Massachusetts as their spokesman.

Please pray for our Troops fighting for us. God Bless you All... And please never forget me.


31 posted on 01/11/2006 12:46:48 PM PST by FerdieMurphy (For English, Press One. (Tookie, you won the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. Oh, too late.))
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To: sittnick
How very true. With Howie the Howler leading the pack, and MoveOn, et al, driving the rhetoric, how can we lose? Teddy is just a giant pin-cushion that doesn't have sense enough to know what harm he is doing to his own cause.

I'll tell you how - Abramoff scandal. Not the scandal itself so much as the spin that it is more Republican than Democratic - which, given the Rep's are in power - may have credibility simply as a numbers game for influence. The 'Bush lies' didn't work. If they filibuster Alito, they'll lose, I hope, and look the worse for it. But. But, they can still gin up enough 'outrage' - with Teddy howling at the forefront in all his pickled hypocrisy - to win the elections. Maybe not House or Senate control, but they can make it too close for Dubya to even pretend to be in charge any more.

What to do? Drive home the 'reasonableness' arguments and the hypocrisy versus Ginsberg and override the veto by nuking it if need be. Get Alito in. When the 'culture of corruption' arguments come up, list every donation made to Democrats over the last 30 years. Show the best of Teddy videos - the screechier the better. Show Corzine's expenditures to be NJ Governor. Ask the public if they want to keep private citizens from contributing to campaigns a la McCain/Feingold, then do they want only millionaire's to be able to run - Corzine and Cantwell, for example?

Then, run somebody who is not a party hack whose 'turn' it is to be nominated. The Anti-Dole. Run someone who can beat Hillary, but won't become her politically to do it. Get a clue that the public does not want to hear another damn thing about illegal alien amnesty or why we need to be bi-freakin' partisan except when it comes to judges (sometimes).
32 posted on 01/11/2006 1:04:30 PM PST by Benkei (Blither on, Teddy)
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To: hattend
Feinstein is up for reelection this year. We'll see that old skank I disagree; I think she is a pretty good politician as politicians go, she works hard and has always done a good job. I do not always agree with everything she does but she is hardly an old skank. While Reid, Pelosi et al are always in front of the camera demeaning Bush and America, my guess is you have never seen DiFi doing anything like that. When she took the Texas lumber company to the bargaining table over our California Redwoods, she did a great job as was stated by the CEO of that company.
33 posted on 01/11/2006 1:41:10 PM PST by SF Republican
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To: FerdieMurphy

How come 'Dateline NBC' never does an expose on the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne?


34 posted on 01/11/2006 2:11:55 PM PST by GianniV
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To: GianniV

A republican wasn't involved.


35 posted on 01/11/2006 2:28:54 PM PST by hattend (I wanna go through the Stargate!)
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To: EveningStar
SPECTER: "Well, Senator Kennedy, I’m not concerned about your threats to have votes again, again and again....

I’m the chairman of this committee....I’m not going to have you run this committee and decide when we’re going to go into executive session."

Heard it, and could NOT believe Kennedy making such an buffoon of himself.

36 posted on 01/11/2006 2:33:31 PM PST by F16Fighter
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To: SF Republican

Ok, she's better than Boxer, but she hardly represents me (I now live in Alaska but I'll be back in California later this year)

http://www.acuratings.org/singlerecord.asp?RepID=58&RatingsYear=2004


37 posted on 01/11/2006 2:35:09 PM PST by hattend (I wanna go through the Stargate!)
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To: pabianice

Here here. Our Congress is filled with morons elected by brainless masses on the left, who only vote in the hopes that the promises of free koolaid come true.


38 posted on 01/11/2006 2:43:19 PM PST by ritewingwarrior
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To: Benkei
Ask Kennedy if HE ever supported government protection of secretaries in airborne vehicles that land in ponds or MacCarhyite 'were you a member of this organization????' browbeating of witnesses.

Oh man, that's like a punch in the throat to liberals who have been throwing McCarthyism out every time they dont get their way! Great post!

39 posted on 01/11/2006 5:15:27 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Benkei
Then, run somebody who is not a party hack whose 'turn' it is to be nominated. The Anti-Dole.

Well put, and succinct! If I did not need my present tag-line to remind me not to take this stuff too seriously, I would be tempted to use your line.

The "anti-Dole..." I like it!

P.S. I ran on the same line with Dole in Connecticut in '96. I was smashed by the Dem deputy majority leader (state rep), but I actually outscored Dole . . . thanks for nothing Bob!
40 posted on 01/11/2006 6:20:51 PM PST by sittnick (There is no salvation in politics.)
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