McConnell praises Edward Kennedy in Boston

boston.com ^ | 5/10/15 | Laura Krantz

[cotton1706]

The Republican leader of the Senate told a crowd gathered on Sunday at the institute honoring one of the chamber’s most liberal members that the late Edward M. Kennedy’s skills as a legislator are the kind needed to help the fractious body learn to once again cooperate.

Majority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Kennedy was someone who could separate the personal from the political and who stayed true to his word. Those are characteristics that will help the body function better in the future, and there are already signs of progress, McConnell said.

“A real sense of renewal is taking hold in the Senate,” McConnell told a crowd of about 200 people gathered at the first lecture in a series titled “Getting to the Point” at the newly opened Edward M. Kennedy Institute, which sits on Columbia Point in Dorchester next to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.

McConnell, first elected to the Senate in 1984, spoke from a podium that looks much like the one in the Senate chamber in Washington. The Kennedy Institute features a replica of the chamber, and audience members Sunday filled the seats and balcony.

[cotton1706]

"Ted Kennedy, great, great man!"

"Conservatives, they MUST be crushed!"

[Eric in the Ozarks]

McConnell rewrites history.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Eulogizing that porcine piece of sewage. Good job Mitch you chump

[Fresh Wind]

The Kennedy Institute features a replica of the chamber, and audience members Sunday filled the seats and balcony.

Does the Kennedy Institute also have a replica of a 1967 Oldsmobile in a reflective pool?

[Servant of the Cross]

[Vaquero]

Gag.....barf....

[Gay State Conservative]

Being a lifelong resident of the Gay State (Massachusetts that is) I can guarantee that of all the adjectives that can be used to describe the senior Senator from Chappaquiddick “great” ain't one of them.

[Mouton]

Is there any way this POS can be removed?

[Nifster]

Mitch....Harry’s doppelganger

[MrBambaLaMamba]

McConnell wants to be President

[Paladin2]

Well we know for sure that Ditch is NOT a man of his word. He is a weasel.

[exnavy]

McConnell is taint of American politics.

[drpix]

“Someone who could separate the personal from the political.”

Ha!!!! By kissing Obama & the Democrats’ asses personally AND politically?

[Cincinatus]

Majority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Kennedy was someone who could separate the personal from the political and who stayed true to his word.

Most certainly he did -- as in the 1980s, when he secretly contacted the Soviets and offered to work with them against President Reagan.

A true patriot indeed.

[bmwcyle]

McConnell is just a grown pod of the man he use to be.

[laconic]

I’ll say one thing for the odious Harry Reid; he fights tooth and nail for his party and their positions. This guy takes the position and gives nothing to the base of the party that elected him and his friends, other than verbal abuse.

[bmwcyle]

I am not impressed with a man who fights tooth and nail because his soul is purchased. What is impressive about that?

[laconic]

at least Reid fights; you can’t say that about McConnell who is too busy trying to get along (in other words, give up on every policy matter) to fight for anything. He is one pathetic “leader”, a true embarrassment.

[bmwcyle]

I am never impressed by a demon from hell fighting.

[sport]

Did he mention that Ted has gone one more day without taking a drink?