https://freerepublic.com/tag/lyinofthesenate/ en-us Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:05:44 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4389497/posts This past week was the 57th anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a young woman who somehow found herself in a cardriven by a drunk who just happened to be the brother of a dead president. Most people born after 1980 really have no idea who she was, unless they have an interest in ancient pop culture. Tragically, that is what Mary Jo, a Pennsylvania native, has become to so many: An asterisk in the larger narrative of the so-called “Lion of the Senate.” To me, this pro-abortion womanizer was much more of a jackal, but I’m one... Daily Times(Delaware County,PA) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4389497/posts#comment Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:05:44 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325425/posts TED KENNEDY'S TRUE LEGACY If Obama and the Democrats want to name their monstrosity of a health care plan after Ted Kennedy, then they should include Mary Joe's name in it per the above graphic. Ted Kennedy was indeed a singular figure in American political history. Very few, if any, other individuals have done more to harm traditional America and our constitutional Republic over such a long period than Ted Kennedy. But Obama seems committed to try. “Socialism hasn’t worked in 6,000 years of recorded history because it didn’t have me to run it.” - Ted Kennedy Despite all... JEFFHEAD.COM https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325425/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:57:44 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202690/posts Washington, on certain special nights, feels like America's living room writ large. Last night, it was Uncle Teddy's living room. They all crammed in, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's whole Washington familial tableau, eager to wish him a happy, if belated, 77th birthday. The senators and the staffers, the television anchors and the social secretaries -- generations of official Washington all brought together. They slipped into gowns and dark suits, and mingled familiarly in the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center. [Snip] A few steps away, there was John Dingell, the Democratic congressman from Michigan, leaning heavily on two canes.... CBS News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202690/posts#comment Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:41:46 GMT