Posted on 02/23/2007 12:57:42 AM PST by raccoonradio
It was a quiet 75th birthday for Ted Kennedy yesterday.
No one drowned or overdosed on drugs. There were no arrests for OUI or rape. No girls were crippled in overturned Jeeps, there were no Coast Guard rescues of beached boats.
Not so long ago, when Teddy reached this kind of birthday milestone, he’d be treated to a big smooch-fest in the mainstream media. There’d be front-page stories about how he was “turning his life around” - the sort of nonsense you generally read about wannabe rappers gunned down in drive-by shootings.
But yesterday, there was next to nothing in the media about Teddy, although his old pal, Sen. John Kerry, did issue an endless tribute that he inserted into the Congressional Record.
Good old Liveshot - why waste 39 cents to send a Hallmark when you can bloviate thousands upon thousands of words of insincere flattery: “TED KENNEDY, not just a father, but a loving father.”
Ted Kennedy, family man. And such pride he must feel about his younger son, Patches the Boy Congressman. All those trips to rehab, and not once has Patches felt obliged to shave his head before he checked in.
And now the Rhode Island rep has endorsed Sen. Chris Dodd for president. Yes, that Chris Dodd - the senator who was the other half of the “waitress sandwich” that Ted Kennedy fashioned with a poor unfortunate waitress in a private dining room at La Brasserie in D.C. several million Chivases ago.
Back to John Kerry’s Happy Birthday wet kiss: “Never bending with the political currents he has in his life and in his career proven again and again that progress doesn’t happen by accident.”
When you’re trying to offer a tribute to Ted Kennedy, should you really be using words such as “currents” and “accident?”
Give Kerry credit for trying, though. It took him until the 20th paragraph of his peroration before he broke down and started talking about, you guessed it, Vietnam.
Of course, Kerry owed Teddy. Remember the kind words Teddy spread upon the Senate record after Kerry gave up his hapless quest for the presidency. Fat Boy massaged Kerry’s wounded ego, praising him for “working for the working people of Massachusetts.”
That’s Ted Kennedy for you, never afraid to repeat a word to make the point. One important point overlooked by Sen. Kerry in his birthday tribute is the eloquence of the man, the myth, the Scotch on the rocks.
Move over Winston Churchill. Here is Sen. Kennedy last month, on a proposal by the senator from Colorado on the minimum wage:
“On the Allard amendment uh, Mr. President uh the members uh showed (sic) have understand (sic) what the effect of the Allard amendment uh is and that is effectively uh to uh repeal the minimum wage uh for uh any states uh among the 50 states - ”
Waiter, another round over here.
“That effectively is what uh the Allard amendment uh does the uh uh the minimum wage in effect in that state, so effectively it eliminates uh the uh minimum wage.”
Only one word can describe how Ted delivered that speech. Effectively.
But now time marches on. Everyone is talking about the man Ted has called “Osama Obama.” Even Rep. Marty Meehan, the man Ted used to call “Andy Meehan,” is probably going to pack it in. But Teddy just keeps on going.
Maybe that old country song was wrong. Maybe drinkin’ doubles does make a party.
Raise a glass for Ted!
VIDEOS
Hamm's (tiny bear, raccoon, and beaver in that keg, vintage 1967)
Narragansett. Hi neighbor! Whiskey for my men, beer for my horse(s)...sounds like Nichols and May on this ad.
Piels. Bert and Harry (Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding at the hockey game
Nice outfit.
So Kerry issued a "tribute." I suppose he would have a great deal to say about a fellow traveler in the liberal blood stream of collectivism, pro-abortion, anti-constitutional, anti-family, pro-tax, pro-government intrusion, anti-death penalty, anti-military, anti-parents, pro-illegal immigrant, bunch of shit as they both are.
Drop dead... commie Ted.
double-bag-mega-barfer here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787167/posts
Um, that we know about.
Is this Teddy the homo?
Teddy raised the whole bottle.
The Swimmer is so pickled that he will still be giving meaniningless, grandstanding speeches on the Senate floor long after his body has died from alcohol poisoning.
Perhaps if we all send Teddy a fresh bottle of Scotch, his liver may do American a big favor.
The people of Massachusetts are a total disgrace for sending such a wicked man to high office, over and over again. They should have put an end to his career after his crime at Chappaquidick. Instead, they toast him for his many sins and celebrate his life.
A pox on them and him!
We all long for the day when there won't be a Kennedy disgracing the halls of the Congress.
That'll be the day!
I've never seen a more friggin' worthless bunch of people in my life then the Kennedy Klan. It seems the only decent one disappeared into the North Sea over 60 years ago.
Maybe another decent one crashed into Nantucket Sound (JFK Jr.) a few years back. I get the feeling Jackie O raised her kids right (they weren't goofballs like their cousins
Patrick "2 a.m. vote" Kennedy, William Kennedy "Blue Dot"
Smith, and Joe "Do You Know Who I Am/I Love Hugo" Kennedy III...)
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