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.
(In a nice way, that is.)
I, too, am from Taxachusetts; and I grew about around these idiots that vote for Kennedy. If you aren't from around here it's impossible to explain the mindset of these ignoramouses.
Great post, TM. Those of us in NH breathed a sigh of relief when the Kennedys decided to take their skiing and drinking elsewhere.
You Massachusetts folks have my deepest sympathy. I'm not sure there is a more pathetic or disgusting elected official than your Senior Balloon.
Back when I was in the National Guard, we had an evaluator from the Mass NG who lived on the Cape and worked at Camp Edwards. Somehow during the course of our time together, the subject of politics came up. His exact words to me were: "How do you like our Congressional delegation? We've got 2 queers and a good swimmer." LMAO!!!
(That was when Gerry Studds was still in Congress.)
Amen!