Posted on 01/14/2006 3:58:58 PM PST by WatchYourself
Kennedy really plunged to new depths in this hearing. He went out of his way to dredge up the past. Alito's membership in CAP is water under bridge.
Kennedy is all wet.
LOL - the author really nailed them with that line.
Not to be picky about it, but Kennedy was trying to drown himself in Scotch and women long before Chappaquidick.
After Mary Jo's death, Teddy made a looney speech wondering if the Kennedys had a curse on them, and a lot more meandering nonsense.
With the best speechwriters the Dems had available to him, that speech was the best he could do. And it stunk.
Kennedy=An ignorant,obese,liquor besotted oaf.
Kennedy didn't strike out, he never got his fat a$$ out of the dugout.
There's a another famous incident during the Rat primary in 1980. At that time, fat teddy thought he stood a chance of wresting the nomination away from his fellow commie, Jimmuh. I don't remember the name of the interviewer, but the swimmer was interviewed on National TV and was asked point blank - "Why do you want to be President?" You'd think maybe, just maybe, ol' ted would have thought about that question before, and maybe go so far as to think up or two talking points that he could respond with - something along the lines of "world hunger", "world peace", "save the whales", "pork interns", whatever.
Well turns out fat ted didn't have anything that he could respond with. Instead he sort of went hummina hummina hummina and that dear reader, was pretty much the end of his presidential aspirations.
What a moron.
I happened to listen to NPR yesterday. Nina Totenburg or whatever her name is, never ever mentioned how personal and snarky Kennedy was. MSM bias.
At one time, Kennedy may have had a modicum of functioning brain cells, but that was several gallons of Chivas Regal ago...
Kennedy claimed to be drinking rum and Cokes before the fateful drive off the bridge at Chappaquiddick, and to have had only three of them. Right.
That brings us to Wednesday, Jan. 11. That morning, in the Judiciary Committee hearings on the Alito nomination, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) demanded furiously that the committee chair, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), subpoena my files on this evil organization, CAP. Specter, who had apparently not seen a letter from Kennedy to the same general effect, told him to stop trying to run the committee, but allowed that he would look into the matter.
A couple of hours later, a member of Specter's staff phoned me and requested access to the files. I granted it, promptly and cordially, and by nightfall investigators for both Specter and Kennedy were at the Library of Congress, going through the files.
So, in order to avoid this embarassment, all Kennedy had to do was identify himself the first time he requested these records on his fishing expedition? That's what you get when you sneak around in the gutter, Senator.
I can buy that...
just like I buy that the Republicans on the panel had too much class to call him out on it on Friday...
Thanks for the ping. Kennedy has completely lost all perspective . He should be forced to retire, or better yet, he should be soundly beaten at the election booth.
I called Senator Cornyn's office yesterday to thank him for being such a model of what IMO a senator should be. I also asked if he would have his staff look into the possibility of bringing up ethics charges against Kennedy for his scurrilous attacks on a sitting judge appearing before the Senate. In my opinion he not only crossed the line of decent behavior for a human being but I believe he also violated some rules of the Senate as well. The young lady I talked to seemed very eager to do just that. Hope something comes of it. Wouldn't it be great if more people asked this of their senators?
And I also understand it has been confirmed that the particular article Kennedy refered to was written and labeled as satire.
I think we're giving Kennedy the benefit of the doubt assuming he didn't know Alito was uninvolved with CAPS.
He had to know.
Kennedy's point was to smear CAPS and then tar Alito with the same brush.
Let's hope that his putting that club on his resume for the job with the Reagan Administration was just an example of what a lot of people do...
putting anything down (truthful, of course), that they think will help them get the position.
Otherwise, I am assuming you are suggesting it was a ruse to make himself more conservative that he really is??
Thanks for the heads up!
I remember that interview with Teddy It was Roger Mudd on "CBS News Special Reports." Mudd asked Kennedy: "Why do you want to be President?", he was unable to provide a straightforward answer. It was actually funny to watch. Ted had that deer-in-the-headlights look. That was the end of his 1980 bid for the presidency.
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