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.
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Hard times for the liquor industry.
I think its wonderful news! We’ve had the Kennedys to kick around for while. A Kennedy-free America is a blessing!
YEA! Maybe it will mean this country will finally WAKE UP!
And no more lechers. Looks like Uncle Ted’s life long dream may soon be undone as well!
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.
Lion? More like a three-toed sloth.
“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?
Camelot is gone. Even Obama couldn’t recreate the Kennedy magic as President.
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.
Like we need another hole in the head!
Oops, poor choice of words on my part...
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.
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!!!
More like the end of an error.
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)
Or Early Times. :-)
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”.
Thank God for small favors!
I am glad to hear that no Kennedy’s are in government.
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