Really,why do the other senators let him get away with it? I don't expect them to just attack him out of the blue,but when he sits in judgement on someone like Samuel Alito and brazenly,hypocritically attacks him for something of which drunKennedy is truly guilty,why do they keep still? It doesn't make sense.
They don't touch hiom because then the skeletons in their OWN closets would get rattled....Not necessarily a bad thing, to me, it'd be a chance to flush the entire toilet and start from scratch.....
The death of Mary Jo Kopechne was the result of a Capitol Hill Girlfriend Problem (CHGFP).
If there is one thing the princes of the Hill understand, it is the need for discretion in dealing with CHGFPs.
1) People who live in glass houses...
2) There but for the grace of God...
The Senate is an old boys' club. They go along to get along, and if someone doesn't play by those rules, then he gets shunted off to the sidelines.