Rep. Kennedy: Addiction 'stigma' fuels mission to help others

The Hill ^ | December 5, 2010 | J. Taylor Rushing

[Second Amendment First]

Good luck on your recovery Patches. I hope you beat your addictions, but it seems you're setting yourself up for a relapse.

Otherwise, it is a relief to have no more Kennedys in congress after 65 years. Fewer drunk, addled scofflaws legislating the rest of us is a first step to the national recovery.

[goldstategop]

No more of them around. Uncle Ted held office until he croaked.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

When he does, it will mark the first time since 1945 no member of the Kennedy family is serving in Congress.

Read it and savor it everyone. The cancer on American politics known as the "Kennedy clan" may finally be gone from the public stage.

Now they can deal with their perversions, addictions and disfunction like everyone else--on a reality show. I'd watch a Patches reality show just to see how bad the train wreck gets.

[ElkGroveDan]

Good Luck Patrick. Thanks for stopping by. See ya. Buh bye. Drive carefully. .....He’s gone. Last one. Turn out the lights.

Now can we forget about that old rum-runner Joe Kennedy and his entire progeny of philandering drunks?

[wideawake]

the youngest member of the Kennedy family to ever win election to Congress — and, notably, the only one to win eight straight elections

Ted Kennedy was elected to Congress as a Senator in '62 (special election), '64, '70, '76, '82, '88, '94, '00 and '06.

That's nine straight election wins.

[Calvin Locke]

Boston radio host Howie Carr played a couple of recent clips last week
of people using the term "inner space".

Must be a new concoction from those wacky wizards of words
feeding the DNC fax machine.

Patches Kennedy used it, and so did a Dem Boston city councilor
trying to provide cover for a guy they just booted off the council
for a bribery conviction.

[pnh102]

When he does, it will mark the first time since 1945 no member of the Kennedy family is serving in Congress.

FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST! THANK GOD ALMIGHTY WE ARE FREE AT LAST!

[goldstategop]

Only Fidel Castro had a longer tenure.

[Second Amendment First]

I suppose “inner space” is the latest framing term by George Lakoff (rhymes with ...), sort of like “green jobs” and “renewable energy”.

[Harley]

Dr. Dru, we have a new contestant, er ah, patient for you.

[oldironsides]

It is nice to know he helped guide legislation for all of us while he was addicted and mentally challenged. No wonder we are all in such bad shape as a nation. He will retire with 6 figures coming into his wallet and healthcare. When will these idiotic congress critters police the disoriented and addicted? He was there too long and the damage done by his cloudy decisions will be with us for decades. I wish him well in his work to help addicted. God knows they cost taxpayers billions.

[WaterWeWaitinFor]

ElkGrove Dan - RIGHT ON....... THANK GOD - I for one am elated that this is the very last Kennedy that scams our entire country in congress. For those libs out there that are pouting about that “royalty” that will be missed.... go look up the real history on the rum-runner Joe Kennedy. EGDan is right. He made his money ILLEGALLY during prohibition. Look up teddy the swimmer’s ordeal with Mary Jo and how he literally got away with murder then continued to serve to haunt this country for years in the Senate. How about the “waitress sandwich” ordeal with Teddy the swimmer and Chris Dodd? Google that. Do some research and see how many times a Kennedy was stopped by the polilce and scrreamed out “don’t you know who I AM?” Royalty my foot. They are not now nor ever have been royal, just a disgusting bunch of arrogant crooks and good riddance.

[Zeppo]

While I hope that he gets himself together so that he's no longer a threat to himself or others, I also fervently hope that he and the rest of his demon-possessed family will retreat from the public stage and just keep out of sight.

The last thing that we need is to have a bunch of dysfunctional Kennedys lecturing and hectoring us with their inanities (and worse).

It would take several lifetimes of penance and restitution to even attempt to fix all of the damage done to this nation by Ted Kennedy alone.

[mirkwood]

[elcid1970]

Fidel Castro HAS had a longer tenure than any of the Kennedys, present tense. Unfortunately his pact with Satan remains in effect and he is still here.

Anyway, there was no major barf alert on this thread.

BARF!

[raccoonradio]

Vicky Kennedy, the Swimmer’s widow, is being “urged to run”

[raccoonradio]

exactly...yikes

For me InnerSpace was a movie where Dennis Quaid was shrunk to microscopic size and injected (in a spaceship) into
Martin Short’s body

[raccoonradio]

How about a Kennedy by marriage? This is Massachusetts.
We’re stupid:

>>BOSTON — The billboard-sized photo of Vicki Kennedy beside one of the major highways entering Boston is impossible to overlook. The question is, what message is it sending?
>>Is it merely touting, as the sign reads, the attendance of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s widow at a mayoral event on immigrants and diversity? Or is it part of a low-wattage effort to maintain Vicki Kennedy’s profile for a possible 2012 campaign against the man who succeeded her husband, Republican Sen. Scott Brown? That’s the hope of the roughly 1,700 members of a Facebook group “Vicki Kennedy for Senator of Massachusetts in 2012.”

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/25998397/detail.html

[Pan_Yan]

Now they can deal with their perversions, addictions and disfunction like everyone else--on a reality show.

The Kennedy's have too much dignity to ever star in a reality show.

[abb]

I’m thinking we should have some sort of ceremony or event or celebration here at FRee Republic marking the event of no Kennedys in Congress.

What say y’all?