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One down, 20,000 more Republican self-loathing closet queens to go.

I’m sure at his country club over martinis he was telling that uppity negro to buff and shine his golf shoes. Chop. Chop.

Screw him. Any time one of the evil bastards on their team kicks the bucket – elected official or voter – we should raise a toast. Saying he was a nice guy on a bad team is like saying a particular Nazi was less of a war criminal than some others. Sure, but he still played for the wrong team and advanced its evil goals.

He is part of an ideology that has totally fucked this country. And he was part of it until the day he died.

Just because he was nice, had gray hair, played football and did some HUD shit, so what?

He was loyal to all that I find disgusting in this country.

just tell me where Kemp’s grave will be, and I’ll dance on it. He deserves no less.

Kemp was not a decent man. He was about as indecent as they come. He was, in terms of decency, no different than any other theocrat, working for the course of his political career at instituting his faith devoid of reason as governmental policy.

Ur right. Plus he was only a 46.7% passer in the AFfuckingL, so double fuck him, although he did less harm there than in Congress. Couldn’t have been a high school qb in western Pennsylvania.

The veteran Republican who was a close friend of Israel’s has passed away at 73:…

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and uphold me with thy free spirit.

RIP

This will be a period of mourning in Western New York. May his soul rest in peace and his ideas and work never forgotten.

Heaven receives a great man.

I miss President Reagan, too.

The death of former pro quarterback and former Republican vice presidential nominee Jack Kemp at 73 of cancer yesterday almost seems a bitter irony of history — timed at a particularly pointed time.
During a week when some pundits were warning t…

Mr. Kemp is Founder and Chairman of Kemp Partners, a strategic consulting firm which seeks to provide clients with strategic counsel, relationship development, and marketing advice, helping them accomplish business and policy objectives.

Mr. Kemp was named co-chair of the Lincoln Bicentennial Cabinet, a group formed by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission to support the Commission’s public/private efforts, in May 2007 along with former Congressman William H. Gray. The Commission was established by Congress to plan educational, public and legacy events to mark the 16th president’s 200th birthday in 2009.

In March 2005 Mr. Kemp was asked to co-chair the Council on Foreign Relations’ Russia Task Force. He also served on Speaker Hastert’s Saving America’s Cities Working Group since early 2005.

From January 1993 until July 2004 he was co-director of Empower America, a Washington, D.C.-based public policy and advocacy organization he co-founded with William Bennett and Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick.

In September 2001, Mr. Kemp helped form a new non-partisan, non-profit think tank, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies to counter the terrorist propaganda efforts. He has also been writing a weekly syndicated column for the Copley News Service nationwide since February of 2000.

Mr. Kemp received the Republican Party’s nomination for Vice President in August of 1996 and since then has campaigned nationally for reform of taxation, Social Security and education.

In 1995, he served as chairman of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform, which promoted major reform and simplification of our tax code in order to unleash the American entrepreneurial spirit, increase economic growth and expand access to capital for all people.

Prior to founding Empower America, Jack Kemp served for four years as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He was the author of the Enterprise Zones legislation to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation in urban America and continues to advocate the expansion of home ownership among the poor through resident management and ownership of public and subsidized housing.

Before his appointment to the Cabinet, Mr. Kemp represented the Buffalo area and western New York for 18 years in the United States House of Representatives, from 1971-1989. He served for seven years in the Republican leadership as Chairman of the House Republican Conference.

Before his election to Congress in 1970, Mr. Kemp played 13 years as a professional football quarterback. He was captain of the San Diego Chargers from 1960-1962. He was also the captain of the Buffalo Bills, the team he quarterbacked to the American Football League Championship in 1964 and 1965, when he was named the league’s Most Valuable Player. He co-founded the American Football League Players Association and was five times elected its president. In 2006 Mr. Kemp was named as one of the NCAA’s “100 Most Influential Student-Athletes.” He was also recognized by Sporting News as one of the Top 50 Quarterbacks of All Time in 2005.

Mr. Kemp was born and raised in Los Angeles and educated in the LA public schools. He is married to the former Joanne Main of Fillmore, CA. Both are graduates of Occidental College located in Los Angeles, CA. They have four children (Jeffrey, Jennifer, Judith and Jimmy) and seventeen grandchildren. The Kemps reside in Bethesda, Maryland, and have a home in Vail, Colorado.

Mr. Kemp has been a director of Oracle since 1995. Additionally, he has been a key strategic advisor to many corporations and serves on the board for Hawk Corp and Six Flags. He is also an advisory board member of Toyota’s Diversity initiative, Thomas Weisel Partners, a merchant banking firm in San Francisco, and Thayer Capital in Washington.

The original compassionate conservative (along with Reagan) -not the bullshit type of compassionate conservative like George HW Bush and son.

Hilts on May 3, 2009 at 8:37 AM

GHWBush referenced Kemp’s voodoo economics campaigning vs. Reagan.

From the ‘96 Veep debate…….

KEMP: Well, this is a perfect example. Bob Dole and I want to cut the tax rates across the board on each and every American, working, saving, investing and taking risks in America. All wealth is created, and all growth is generated by risk-taking entrepreneurs. The tax rate on capital in America is way too high. It’s too high on the family and it’s particularly too high on working men and women. The average family in America, at median level of income, probably is spending 25 to 26 percent of their income sent to the federal government. That’s more than shelter, food, clothing, and energy. That’s just not right. When I was growing up in Los Angeles, my parents were a one working family, one breadwinner per family was all that was necessary. Now if a woman wants to go to work or a man wants to go to work, it ought to be their choice, not the choice of the Washington, D.C. establishment. Bill Clinton, the President, and Al Gore, suggest that they’ll give us a tax cut, but only if we do exactly what they want us to do. That isn’t America. That’s social engineering. The tax code should reflect our values in a Judeo-Christian sense, that work, honesty and integrity and contracts and property and investment and savings should be rewarded, and Bob Dole and Jack Kemp are not only going to cut the tax rates across the board and lower the Capital Gain Tax. I’ll be glad to talk about it a little later, there’s not enough time, but we are going to repeal the 83-year-old code and replace the seven and a half million words with a flatter, fairer, simpler code that will take this country roaring in

“I’ll be glad to talk about it a little later, there’s not enough time, but we are going to repeal the 83-year-old code and replace the seven and a half million words with a flatter, fairer, simpler code that will take this country roaring in the 21st Century.”

WORDING always matters. In having supported the humane documentation of illegal aliens ALREADY WORKING IN THE USA, show the limitation of time wherein undocumented workers could legally apply inside the US rather than promoting the perpetuation of documenting illegal aliens flooding past the border after the fact. Kemp showed that he had no qualms REPEALING legislation that proved harmful to the economic security of the USA.

In time, don’t accept the argument from McCain that Kemp was for McCain’s comprehensive immigration reform based upon Reagan’s lenient bipartisan cooperation. I’d like to read what Kemp had to say about McCain’s efforts there.

November 12, 2008

My advice for you all is to understand that unity for our nation doesn’t require uniformity or unanimity; it does require putting the good of our people ahead of what’s good for mere political or personal advantage.

The party of Lincoln, (i.e., the GOP), needs to rethink and revisit its historic roots as a party of emancipation, liberation, civil rights and equality of opportunity for all. On the other hand, the party of Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and now Obama must put forth an agenda that understands that getting American growing again will require both Keynesian and classical incentive-oriented (supply-side) economic ideas. But there’s time for political and economic advice in a later column (or two).

Let me end with an equally great historical irony of this election. Next year, as Obama is sworn in as our 44th president, we will celebrate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. … honoring of Lincoln in many of his speeches reminds us of how vital it is to elevate these ideas and ideals to our nation’s consciousness and inculcate his principles at a time of such great challenges and even greater opportunities. …

President-elect Obama talks of Abraham Lincoln’s view of our nation as an “unfinished work.” Well, isn’t that equally true of all of us? Therefore let all of us strive to help him be a successful president, so as to help make America an even greater nation.

Jack Kemp to his Grandchildren

Absolutely. HOLD OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE for his premise platform on which he won the election. No POTUS is free to dismantle the Constitution, dishonor contractual law, and make America a Marxist nation. Obama swore he wasn’t Marxist and that he wouldn’t take socialist measures if elected. And on his honor, Kemp entrusted a blessing that Obama thugged along with rule of law.

Kemp promised one or two more missives. But Obama broke his pledge to Kemp. STRESS advances illness. In the end, though Jack Kemp was a true friend to all Americans, Obama was no friend of Jack Kemp.

Moral:

Hope for the best but expect the worst from your opponents; be prepared.

Jack Kemp, you were not wrong to be a man of honor and integrity. You were blessing America, hoping against all odds for Obama to actually represent MLK instead of Marx. You proved that the GOP gave Obama every initial opportunity to measure up to his own premise platform. Your testimonial cleanses the GOP of any implication that Republicans did not offer Obama our support to be the President of the United States of America for ALL AMERICANS, not just for Socialists. Obama is NOT your fault, not your responsibility, but his own.

RIP