Former Democratic Chief Counsel: Ted Kennedy Disgraced Himself (Great Read!)

NewsMax ^ | 1/30/06 | Jerry Zeifman

[wagglebee]

During my own career on Capitol Hill I once told House Speaker "Tip" O'Neill in confidence: "I have a low opinion of Senator Kennedy." He replied discreetly: "The Kennedys are not real Democrats. They have their own party."

This needs to be in a commercial!

[Gay State Conservative]

I recall that Zeifman was also critical of democRATS during
impeachment.

[Maceman]

disgraced himself and our party by misusing his position on the Senate Judiciary Committee to achieve self-serving partisan ends.

Is that on TOP of the disgrace in Chappaquiddick? Or is this the first time you think he has disgraced himself?

DISCLAIMER: This photo is FAKE but ACCURATE.

[EagleUSA]

"The Kennedys are not real Democrats. They have their own party."
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Yeah, it's called the MASSACHUSETTS MAFIA. It owns and runs the state. But there is an entrance test requirement -- you have to have an IQ below 75 and must be known to be responsible for at least one person's death....hey, Kerry qualifies too.

[jazusamo]

Good for Jerry Zeifman, but what else would anyone expect from Kennedy, a person with the moral character somehow lower than whale excrement.

[samadams2000]

Yeah ..and he killed a woman and was kicked out of college for CHEATING!!!

[GOPJ]

Kennedy's a pig. Dems and their buds in the MSM refuse to see it:

Aside from the Senator's association with an all-male club there is other more substantial evidence of flaws in Kennedy's character: Kennedy had been expelled from Harvard for paying a friend to take a Spanish exam for him.

He also has a history of mistreating women. In July 1969, with Mary Jo Kopechne (his date for the night at a drinking party) beside him in his car, Kennedy drove off the side of a bridge on Cape Cod at Chappaquiddick on Cape Cod.

When the car began to submerge in water the Senator escaped. Mary Jo remained in the car and drowned.

At that time Joan Kennedy, the Senator's wife, was pregnant. Traumatized by the scandal and by her husband's philandering, she had a miscarriage. She then started to drink her way into alcoholism. Eventually she went into psychiatric treatment and divorced Kennedy.

To counter the bad reputation he acquired among women because of the Chappaquiddick scandal and his mistreatment of his wife, the Senator pandered to pro-choice feminists – causing his pro-life detractor to quip, "Libertine men always favor abortion."

[msnimje]

Just think how much better this country would be if the Kennedy Clan decided to used their power, influence and money for Good instead of Evil.

[shield]

And all along I thought is was a toon tactic...

[WayneS]

No offence, but Senator Ted Kennedy disgracing himself is NOT news.

[lilylangtree]

Where the pubby PR people? You're right! That quote needs to be broadcasted across the globe.

[TX Bluebonnet]

Three years later Kennedy put politics above principle and became a champion of the filibuster. He also threatened to boycott any work of the Senate that was not essential for national security if a Republican majority was trying to outlaw filibusters by amending the Senate rules.

Kennedy boycotting the Senate sounds great! Is this supposed to be some kind of dire threat? Please do. Go away and don't come back. Lets amend the Senate rules and outlaw filibusters posthaste.

[Bigh4u2]

No, but a fellow 'democrat' pointing it out is.(news that is)

[WayneS]

Ahhhhh. Good point.

[hsalaw]

a person with the moral character somehow lower than whale excrement.

Well, I don't know. Whale excrement is no doubt very, very low (relatively speaking), but there may actually be a use for it; there's no use at all for that scum-sucking, lowlife, lying, cheating, unethical, lardass loser gasbag.

[uncitizen]

"Tip" O'Neill in confidence:... "The Kennedys are not real Democrats. They have their own party."

Would that be the Socialist Party? Oh wait. That's just a worse sounding name for "Democrat Party". What party would that be then?

[GOPJ]

Yeah, it's called the MASSACHUSETTS MAFIA. It owns and runs the state. But there is an entrance test requirement -- you have to have an IQ below 75 and must be known to be responsible for at least one person's death...

75? That high?

[Enchante]

"No offence, but Senator Ted Kennedy disgracing himself is NOT news.

Of course not, but a prominent fellow Democrat having the decency and courage to speak up and accurately describe the low-life's despicable character IS news.....

[jazusamo]

"there's no use at all for that scum-sucking, lowlife, lying, cheating, unethical, lardass loser gasbag.'

Well written. LOL

[truth_seeker]

"This occurred largely because Democratic Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska formed a non-partisan coalition of seven Democrats and seven Republicans to oppose filibusters, except in extraordinary cases."

Need to check if the 14 stayed together, vis a vis the filibuster. If they don't all stick together, it will be the dems who break the deal.

Headline: "Dems Lied Again - Break Earlier Deal to Not Filibuster"