" It not only looks like Teddy...It SMELLS like Teddy..."
That would explain the weird practice of their electing this beached, bloviating whale to the senate every six years.
The editor of the magazine Prospect, says the piece that Kennedy read was satire!
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/012824.php
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Dinesh D'Souza was the editor of Prospect at the time, and he confirms that the article, by H. W. Crocker III, now an editor for Regnery Books, was a satire:
The essay may not have been funny, D'Souza acknowledges, but Kennedy read from it as if it had been serious instead of an attempt at humor.
"I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them," D'Souza said. "It was a satire."
After listening to the Senior Whale from my beloved Taxachusetts badger Judge Alito about the insufficiency of 12 YEARS as a legitimate definition of "initial period" - regarding his Vanguard investments and recusals -
I called Kennedy's Washington office and - after speed-dialing the number about 20 times - finally got through to some effete twerp-sounding deskie who said,
"Oh no! The Senator was NOT going to let Alito get away with restricting 'initial period' to JUST TWELVE YEARS! NO WAY!"
So I - nasty bastard with a good memory that I am - said to this young twerp:
"But Kennedy thought that 12 HOURS was a legitimate amount of time between crashing the Oldsmobile and leaving it in the water with Mary Jo in it and reporting it to the soon-to-be-bought-off Dukes County constabulary."
He hung up.
I called back. Persevered through numerous speed-dialings. And got the twerp again. And I said,
"DO NOT EVER HANG UP on a 50-year-old-plus tax-paying, voting-in-every-election constituent, no matter HOW UNPLEASANT THE TRUTH about your THOROUGHLY DISCREDITED and MORALLY BANKRUPT boss may be."
Then I hung up.
It's the only card the Libs have left in the deck to play -- but it's worked like a charm since Roe Vs. Wade.
The REAL war will be engaged should another SC vacancy have to be filled.
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" It not only looks like Teddy...It SMELLS like Teddy..."
"Judge Alito, do you know who I am? Please tell me because I've forgotten.
You see my father had me undergo a lobotomy years ago when he discovered that I wanted to enter politics. He told me that it would make me a better politician if I didn't have a brain."
"Would someone tell me why that person in the back is waving a sign that says "Remember Mary Jo Kopechne?" "Oh no. I've soiled my pants again."
One of the funniest things I ever saw - first hand, that is - happened at a CLINTON-KENNEDY rally here, in what the Democrats call "a richly diverse suburb" of Boston, i.e., you wouldn't believe the number of alcoholics, drug-addicts, and sex-offenders we have at our local shelters - no questions asked by anyone but us neighbors - and the number of closed factories and businesses - and the fact that it's almost impossible to find even a police officer who speaks English . . . but I digress.
Anyhow, the two fat slimes were on the steps of the town hall congratulating each other (on still being out of prison, I think) and the square was filled to capacity with said free-loaders, foreigners, and bussed in union folks, when - right next to me - a late middle aged woman held up a giant sign inscribed:
MADS: MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK SENATORS
Within moments, two State Police officers, who were able to read English, apparently, escorted her away.
But for one brief shining moment it was my Camelot !!!!!
I recently posted a segment of the hearings which I think pretty well shows Kennedy's intellect, at the time I had to paraphrase, but after going over transcripts, I found the actual part I was referring to:
KENNEDY: And when that time was up, did you ever imagine that you would get back to the committee and said, "I believe my time is up on Vanguard"?
ALITO: Well, Senator, the nature of the question that I was responding to did not figure in the way the Monga case was handled. And I thought I made that clear yesterday.
I was following, throughout my time on the bench, the practice of going beyond the code. And had I focused on this issue when the matter came before me, I would have recused myself at this time as I later did.
But in answer to Senator Hatch's question, looking at that question today and looking at the answer, the question was: What you intend to do during your initial period of service? And I think that that's what the answer has to be read as responding to.
But just to be clear, I'm not saying that that's why this played out the way it did. I'm just saying that's how I think the question and the answer -- that's how I think the question and any response to the answer by any nominee needs to be interpreted.
KENNEDY: Well, if there's someone that can just understand what you just told us, I'd be interested in it, because I don't.
HATCH: Well, I'll be glad to explain it.
KENNEDY: Well, if...
(LAUGHTER)
An audio version would be even better, but couldn't find it.
ROTFLMAO!!!
He should quit his day job and become a full-time comedian!!
Where does he get his material??
Anytime I hear a kennedy moralizing, I think about where they got their money from, and the lovely "morals " of jfk, the womanizer and teddy the swimmer.
"The ill-fated nomination of Harriet Miers notwithstanding..."SIGH!!! Didn't we dodge a bullet?
I can't wait.
Yes, I suspect that the large majority of MA is also opposed to Alito.