Posted on 04/29/2010 5:40:24 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Ted Kennedy must be spinning in his grave!
The Obama administration has given the green light for the nation's first offshore wind farm off the pristine coast of Cape Cod -- a surprise move in direct opposition to the wishes of the mighty Massachusetts political icon who helped propel the president to power.
US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made the announcement yesterday in Boston, capping a nine-year federal review process that pitted the liberal Kennedy clan -- whose Hyannis Port compound is near the future wind farm -- against fellow Dems and some environmental groups.
A month before he died, Ted Kennedy -- who was one of President Obama's earliest backers -- wrote the president a letter begging him to stop the wind farm from being erected.
"He [Ted Kennedy] would be heartbroken," said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer...
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This cracked me up! All those NIMBY limousine Libs on Nantucket must be furious.
Enjoying the schadenfreude.
Wind farms belong in the country...or along expressways...
*snort* Old dead Ted was just a whitey. Fat Ted was also a total fool for backing the flop earred communist.
This is just the way our racist and faux president pays the Kennedy’s back.
I guess Ted deserved this.
Why in the world would Cape Cod need another wind farm. Isn’t that the Kennedy compound. But with Teddy gone there’s a bit less wind blowing. SO I guess it does make sense.
LMAO at all the MA liberals now. How’s that hopey-changey thing working out for you?
...when the wind farm get-rich-quick craze hit our mountains the energy hustlers offered contracts to land owners...the contract specified that the cost of putting up the turbine would be paid for by the windfarm....there was NOTHING about who pays to take the turbine down!...when the govt subsidy runs out the countyside will have abandoned 38 story eyesores.
Damn!.... what is next!...a Republican winning “Ted’s” Sentae seat???........errrrrrrr....
I like the picture on the left- I hope the Kennedy clan gets a good view of this from their private beaches every morning, and also get to scrape up the dead and dying birds that wash ashore
Should make for sporting sailing, too
Well, it least it gives Patches an excuse for getting lit. Still and all it represents a colossal misallocation of resources in tribute to the false god of global warming...
I guess honoring Teddy’s memory was only a big deal when it came to health care reform.
....just wait and see what happens when one of these windmills chop up a flock of, say, Whooping Cranes....or the last of the Condors...heh heh
Like all liberals, the Kennedys are great, big, humongous hypocrites. Wind farms in your backyard, but not in theirs.
“Ted Kennedy must be spinning in his grave!”
Yeah, bed spins ...
I hope they dedicate it to “Teddy”
Within 30 years the rusting hulks will be a hazard to navigation but still in place because the bankrupt company will have no money to remove them
Yes, wind farms are great for everyone else but not for them. IMO, if a wind farm gets planted anywhere it should be right there off the shores of Cape Cod.
I wonder what message the East Coast libs are getting from this.
This could cause a polar shift.
The next wind farm should be in The Hamptons.
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