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For the Kennedys: The End of an Era
ABC News ^ | 01/01/2011 | John Hendren

Posted on 01/01/2011 11:20:26 PM PST by speciallybland

The sun has set on the Kennedy era.

When Congress reconvenes next week, it will be the first time in 64 years that there has not been a Kennedy in office.

"I think it is sad," Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, daughter of Robert Kennedy and a former lieutenant governor of Maryland, told ABC News. "I think we need a Kennedy."

The last Kennedy -- Patrick, a congressman from Rhode Island -- has officially left the building, saying, "my life is taking a new direction and I will not be a candidate for reelection."

His father, Sen. Edward Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate, died in 2009. Now, the new frontier on Capitol Hill has a distinctly Republican flavor. Replacing the Kennedys as the only father-son team on the Hill are Rep. Ron Paul and Senator-elect Rand Paul, both Tea Party Republicans. Where the Kennedys focused on civil rights and expanding Medicare, the Pauls emphasize fiscal responsibility and limited government.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kennedy; kennedys
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1 posted on 01/01/2011 11:20:30 PM PST by speciallybland
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To: speciallybland

Hard times for the liquor industry.


2 posted on 01/01/2011 11:22:00 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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To: speciallybland

I think its wonderful news! We’ve had the Kennedys to kick around for while. A Kennedy-free America is a blessing!


3 posted on 01/01/2011 11:22:26 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: speciallybland

YEA! Maybe it will mean this country will finally WAKE UP!


4 posted on 01/01/2011 11:24:15 PM PST by goodnesswins (You deciding how to spend your health care $, thatÂ’s freedom. Govt deciding, thats a death panel)
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To: Jeff Chandler

And no more lechers. Looks like Uncle Ted’s life long dream may soon be undone as well!


5 posted on 01/01/2011 11:24:28 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: speciallybland

A government without the Kennedy family? We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it . . . which I pray has come soon enough for America if not for the Kopechne family.


6 posted on 01/01/2011 11:27:54 PM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: speciallybland
Sen. Edward Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate

Lion? More like a three-toed sloth.

7 posted on 01/01/2011 11:29:06 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!)
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“I think we need a Kennedy.”

Yup, where will we ever find a replacement boozy womanizer born with a silver spoon to spend our money like a drunken sailor while propounding their superior morality sung to tunes from Camelot?

Will we ever be so lucky again?


8 posted on 01/01/2011 11:30:25 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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Camelot is gone. Even Obama couldn’t recreate the Kennedy magic as President.


9 posted on 01/01/2011 11:33:13 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: speciallybland

Thank God the Kennedys are gone! They screwed up everything they touched. Time to rename everything away from JFK, to Reagan. JFK was only in the White House a couple years, and the only positive thing he did was to spark the space race to the Moon. Teddy was around way too long, good riddance.


10 posted on 01/01/2011 11:41:27 PM PST by roadcat
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"I think we need a Kennedy."

Like we need another hole in the head!

Oops, poor choice of words on my part...

11 posted on 01/01/2011 11:51:34 PM PST by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!(FR #1690))
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Article says JFK launched the Kennedy dynasty in 1947. Nope, it goes back much further. His father, Joe Kennedy Sr., a powerful man himself, groomed his son Joe Jr. for the presidency, but Jr. died in action in WWII. Joe Sr. was Ambassador to England and a leader of the Democrat party. Joe Sr. pulled most of the strings to get things done in the family.


12 posted on 01/01/2011 11:53:52 PM PST by roadcat
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Boohoo. Hold muh beer while I grab that crying towel over there. I mean, seriously, when will the media stop wringing its collective hands over the end of the Kennedy “era?” Sheesh!!!


13 posted on 01/01/2011 11:55:34 PM PST by Wolfstar ("If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend." Abraham Lincoln)
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To: speciallybland

More like the end of an error.


14 posted on 01/02/2011 12:05:50 AM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: speciallybland

yeah that ABC reporter was a real cheerleader for the Kennedys.

i can hardly wait for the praise they will heap on the Bush family in tonight’s broadcast. (S/off)


15 posted on 01/02/2011 12:13:00 AM PST by utax
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To: Jeff Chandler
Hard times for the liquor industry.

Or Early Times. :-)

16 posted on 01/02/2011 12:21:30 AM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: speciallybland

I’m sure the Kennedys still all have their Georgetown townhouses for when they want to leave their “compounds” and go to DC to lobby for “the little guy”.


17 posted on 01/02/2011 12:23:04 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: speciallybland
Ein Kennedyrein Bundestag!

Thank God for small favors!

18 posted on 01/02/2011 12:40:03 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: speciallybland

I am glad to hear that no Kennedy’s are in government.


19 posted on 01/02/2011 12:56:32 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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For the Kennedys: The End of an Error
20 posted on 01/02/2011 12:57:07 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Stupid Obama still lacks the experience needed to be President.)
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