Posted on 08/25/2009 10:14:50 PM PDT by Gigantor
Senator Ted Kennedy has died.
You BAD!
How much of his estate will be consumed by inheritance taxes?
Massachusetts is now half-way to its correct representation in the Senate. Progress.
Aside from the matter involving Mary Jo Kopechne? You gotta be kidding me.
You don’t recall hearing he was involved in outright crime, graft, or corruption?
Well ok then.
So Ted Kennedy was good people and served with the right principles?
I feel for his family as losing a loved one is never easy and I’m sure they loved him.
However, I won’t pretend he or his family were/are good people who care about this Country and its people.
He killed another person and got away with it. He then spent countless years in the Senate (has he ever had a job?) destroying this Country and chipping away at the Constitution. Yep we should all be as effective as him.
He was effective in lots of negative things and I won’t pretend he was sone great person just because he’s dead now. I’m sure his family and friends and lots of other people mourn his death. I ain’t one of them. I hope the “Kennedy legacy” aka power in our government dies with him.
I wonder if any obituaries will ID him as the Rat that invented BORKING.
He fought against repealing the estate tax. Let’s see just how much of his money was sheltered from the tax man.
He also fought against medical savings accounts.
He did not live as he demanded his public live.
Search the memos he wrote where he revealed himself to be a racist as well.
He outright blocked Bush’s judicial nominees BECAUSE they were Hispanic. He saw it as possibly helping the GOP so he denied these men appointment strictly on the basis of their ethnic heritage.
It’s in his own writing. He got flustered when someone found them on a public server accessible to government employees. But it doesn’t change what he wrote to activist groups.
The damage he caused is incalculable.
A lifetime of treason.
is Obama taking the body to Washington
on Air Force 1?
what about, the body lying in state at the capitol.
who decides that?, is Congress in session now?
That only applies to the common folk.
The pollitt bureau is exempt from confiscation of wealth.
TheArizona
And in his final act, he caused me to miss Red Eye. They might have even run Ab News, which would have been a fitting tribute to the Philanderer.
I think this will get more coverage than Michael Jackson. They can blitz the media with it so we get our minds off health care while the Congress comes bad and pushes through their agenda. I will be watching CPAN closely
They are also exempt from Obamacare.
It’s the rise of the American Politburo. USSA! USSA! USSA!
Don't have anything nice to say about the man, so I guess I'm reverting to self-centeredness. Oh well. Can't say it's going to keep me awake. He wouldn't give a lowly commoner like me a second look, while he uses my Massachusetts tax money to build more pyramids to his family members (a public garden costing tens of millions named after his mother, who contributed WHAT to my life, exactly?). He ruined people's lives, helped poison the public debate repeatedly, and all I can say is I'm sorry for his loved ones who will miss him.
So it goes...
Jackson and Billy Mays? Sorry to hear about your dad.
In Ted’s honor we ought to swim away from Obamacare, leaving it to drown.
And there was this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1113612/posts
Kennedy Dodges Questions on Judicial ‘Memogate’
CNSNEWS.com ^ | 4/08/04 | Robert B. Bluey
U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) appeared flustered Wednesday when confronted with allegations that two of his former aides plotted to delay the confirmation of one of President Bush’s judicial nominees solely to influence a high-profile affirmative action case.
The former Kennedy aides — Olati Johnson, his judiciary counsel, and Melody Barnes, his chief counsel — were responsible for an April 17, 2002, memo that recommended Kennedy delay the confirmation process of Julia Smith Gibbons to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Individual Freedom.
Gibbons was eventually confirmed, but not until July 29, 2002, after the appeals court had already ruled on an affirmative action case involving law school students at the University of Michigan. The court issued its ruling May 14, 2002. That case and one involving undergraduate students at the University of Michigan were later appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
When CNSNews.com asked Kennedy about the allegations Wednesday, the senator stumbled over his words, shook his head and was quickly escorted from the room by his staff.
“No. I’m not gonna, uh, re, uh,” Kennedy muttered.
He also wouldn’t confirm or deny whether Johnson and Barnes were responsible for contents of the memo.
“No. No,” Kennedy said as he scurried for the door.
The senator, who was holding a press conference on pension relief for small businesses, was also asked whether he would condemn the idea of delaying a judge for the sole reason of influencing a court case. Kennedy didn’t respond.
The CFIF report, which fingers Johnson as the author of the April 17, 2002, memo, raises several ethical questions because of Johnson’s employment history.
Prior to joining Kennedy’s office, Johnson was assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which was a defendant-intervenor in one of the University of Michigan affirmative action cases. In that capacity, Johnson served as co-counsel.
According to the CFIF report, Johnson’s former boss, Elaine R. Jones, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, made a telephone request to Kennedy’s office asking that Gibbons’ confirmation to the 6th Circuit be delayed in order to prevent Gibbons from voting on the affirmative action cases.
The April 17, 2002, memo, on which Barnes apparently concurred, was the byproduct of that conversation, according to the CFIF report.
The memo spells out the rationale for delaying Gibbons’ confirmation: “The thinking is that the current 6th Circuit will sustain the affirmative action program, but if a new judge with conservative views is confirmed before the case is decided, that new judge will be able, under 6th Circuit rules, to review the case and vote on it.”
But the memo also highlighted the ethical concerns that come with delaying a confirmation solely for the purpose of influencing a court decision
I’m reminded of an old Rick Nelson song, only with a little twist on the title, “Hello, Maryjo”
Oh my, and we thought the Wellstone funeral was bad,
this is gonna be TK all the time for at least a week.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls Hillery, it tolls
for thee.
Hello Mary Jo, goodbye car
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