Kennedy wants law changed in Massachusetts … again
posted at 9:30 am on August 20, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
During the time MItt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, Senator John Kerry ran for President and looked at times that he might win. The state legislature, egged on by Kerry’s Senate partner Ted Kennedy, changed the law regarding the selection of a replacement Senator to require a state election, keeping Romney from the possibility of appointing — quelle horreur! — a Republican in Kerry’s place. Now that Ted Kennedy is perhaps too ill to continue, Kennedy now wants the law changed back, since there’s a Democrat in the governor’s chair.
A cancer-stricken Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has written a letter to Massachusetts leaders asking that they change state law to allow a speedy replacement of him in Congress.
The note has been sent to Gov. Deval Patrick and the state’s Senate president and House speaker while Congress considers an overhaul of the nation’s health care system, one of Kennedy’s projects.
The letter acknowledges the state changed its succession law in 2004 to require a special election within five months to fill any vacancy. At the time, legislative Democrats — with a wide majority in both chambers — were concerned because then-Republican Gov. Mitt Romney had the power to directly fill any vacancy created as Democratic Sen. John Kerry ran for president.
But Kennedy writes “it is vital for this commonwealth to have two voices speaking for the needs of its citizens and two votes in the Senate during the approximately five months between a vacancy and an election.”
Well, it is now, since Deval Patrick and not Mitt Romney governs Massachusetts. Now, apparently, the needs of a democratic process can take a back seat to the needs of a, um, Democratic process. Suddenly, Kennedy sees the need to have Massachusetts represented by two Senators immediately after an opening, rather than wait for the will of the people.
If there’s a bigger pile of hypocrisy (outside of Washington DC), someone please be sure to mention it in the comments.
The rule of law prevails because it’s seen by most as a fair, non-partisan measure of public behavior. There are good arguments to be made for both gubernatorial appointment and special elections as processes for filling mid-term vacancies in Congress. However, actions by a state legislature and demands by partisan hacks to keep going back and forth depending on the party registration of the Governor makes a mockery of the rule of law and underscores the fact that machine politics runs Massachusetts. (via JiangxiDad)
Update: John Fund moves the story a bit more:
The Boston Globe now notes Mr. Kennedy’s current request “puts lawmakers in a delicate position.” They “are nervous about being accused of engineering a self-serving change to help their party” just a few years after ramming through a similar self-serving change.
It’s sad to see Senator Kennedy sign on to such an obvious ploy. Under the law he now proposes, he would likely not have become a U.S. Senator in 1962, after his brother became president. At the time, Ted Kennedy was too young to be appointed to JFK’s seat. A faithful Kennedy ally was appointed by the state’s Democratic governor for two years as a stand-in until Ted was old enough to run and win in 1962. Under the changes Mr. Kennedy now wants, a special election would instead have been held in early 1961 — an election he would not have been eligible to run in — and he likely would have faced a formidable incumbent if he chose to run as a novice when the seat next came up in November 1962. In the event, Mr. Kennedy secured the Democratic nomination only after his brother’s operatives convinced most of the state’s prominent Democrats not to run. Even so, young Teddy managed to win only 53% of the vote in the general election in a strong year for Democrats with his own brother in the White House.
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I didn’t see a coherent question…just a talking point from the DU group.
You are F’in brilliant, please keep posting…
right2bright on August 20, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Thank you for your response. If you have an actual point (other than the one under your sweat-stained baseball cap), I’ll be happy to address it.
bschmalfeldt on August 20, 2009 at 10:57 AM
“bread-flinging priests”!! LOL gotta remember that one.
It does seem strange to me that people who call Bush a murderer can’t say the same about TK. I cannot be a member of the left because I dislike cognitive disonance.
CambellBrown on August 20, 2009 at 10:58 AM
So why does he want the law to be changed now?
CBP on August 20, 2009 at 10:58 AM
LOL…Now I’m demented because I don’t “respect” Ted Kennedy and his impending death.
I guess the word “Conservative” is a very, very, very wide political meaning in here. Heck AnninCa might as well call
herself AnntheConservativeinCa.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 10:59 AM
We “wingnuts” may have our bad side, but almost any of us can truthfully say that our moral compasses are far better calibrated than Teddy Kennedy’s.
unclesmrgol on August 20, 2009 at 10:57 AM
I admire your connection to the real world. You’ve managed to hit pretty much all the wingnut talking points in a single comment. Abortion, drunken Teddy, Teddy the Murdered, Sarah Palin…
My God! The people who own Rush sure are getting their money’s worth from YOU, my friend.
bschmalfeldt on August 20, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Can anyone get Mary Jo Kopechne to comment on this?
Seems as if someone is perpetually trying to bend the rules to a) preserve his opportunities and b)cement his legacy.
ted c on August 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM
If you think real conservatives throw parties when their political opponents die, you haven’t a clue what a conservative is.
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Well let’s see if I understood those big words…
My response:
Yep, that matches….
Now this from you:
My response:
Yep that matches.
It looks like I had a pretty good handle on what you posted…like I said, keep posting you are F’in brilliant, bout as smart as any other liberal troll.
right2bright on August 20, 2009 at 11:02 AM
This isn’t the article I read, but it does a nice job of presenting both sides. It kind of sides with you that it wasn’t worth it, but it shows that more people died on an average day under Saddam than during the Iraq War.
BadgerHawk on August 20, 2009 at 11:02 AM
So why does he want the law to be changed now?
CBP on August 20, 2009 at 10:58 AM
(Sigh…)
Because… as I just explained…
POLITICS!!!
(It’s been fun, gotta go. Lunch time and a trip to Wal Mart for some office supplies. On a side note, thanks for the entertaining back-and-forth. Be well.)
bschmalfeldt on August 20, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Sez the guy with the snappy Mao hat and sweat-stained mumu.
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 11:03 AM
When is Ted Kennedy going to be designated a “shovel ready project?”
jus’ askin’..
ted c on August 20, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Maybe he doesn’t consider him an “opponent” as much as a traitor, molester, murderer.
Separate the man from the deeds, and you would abhor the deed…I think if some inner city gangster did the same, you would be calling for his execution.
right2bright on August 20, 2009 at 11:04 AM
It’s the classic psychology of “the enemy is always worser.” Think about the mental gymnastics North Korean officers and British Muslims go through when exposed to the fresh water, plentiful food, and clean faces of freer nations founded on Protestant notions of automomy and generosity.
Democrats are like cave-dwelling extremists trying to justify their hate for people who excel at life.
TMK on August 20, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Lefty dilemma:
Boycott Wal Mart because it’s non-union
or
Support Wal Mart because they joined the Beck Boycott
Disturb the Universe on August 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM
ted c on August 20, 2009 at 11:04 AM
They’re going to need a lot more than a shovel, I think this is a crane and bulldozer ready program.
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Dude, I don’t know how many times we have to say it; none of us respect Kennedy. Stop pretending like you have to throw a party when he dies or else you love him. There’s a middle ground.
BadgerHawk on August 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM
I’d recommend that Gov. Patrick select Donte Stallworth to replace Sen. Kennedy upon his demise.
Mr. D on August 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM
bschmalfeldt, there’s a quote button there just above the edit field. Hope that’s helpful.
DarkCurrent on August 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Good grief. These people cling to their power even from beyond the grave!
yogi41 on August 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Could you be more concise?
bschmalfeldt on August 20, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Both. Shouldn’t he just stop the killing? Why does he want more people to die?
Star20 on August 20, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Mr. D on August 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Good choice, Donte would be a step up because at least he stopped the car after running over his victim and remained at the scene to talk to the police.
Because we’ve come so far.
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Isn’t cognitive dissonance wonderful?
Liam on August 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Already made that point, and it flew over his head. We had this same go-around(not necessarily with him, but in general) when we thought he was on death’s door months ago. I guess it’s just two different groups on our side.
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM
A US Senate seat is not a personal possession to be bequeath except when you are a Kennedy and live in Massachusetts. If Splash is ‘so concerned’, let him resign now and let the process begin.
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.
GarandFan on August 20, 2009 at 11:12 AM
If I celebrated Hitlers death or Stalin’s death, that would not be conservative? Or should I respect them? When you really come down to it, I mean really come down to it, Ted Kennedy, in his job as a U.S. Senator, is responsible for as many deaths on this planet than perhaps either of these two monsters mentioned.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:14 AM
If you don’t respect the man, then why would it be so upsetting if I celebrated his demise?
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Mary Jo would not have liked this had this bastard allowed her to live
ReaganConservative3 on August 20, 2009 at 11:17 AM
It wasn’t a destroyer is was a PT that got crunched by a destroyer. It was a Piper Cub it was a Piper Saratoga II which is a very nice plane. Most likely to advanced for his level of proficiency and the saddest thing is that from what I understand the plane was equipped with an autopilot that could have flown the plane pretty much to the runway.
Anyway……….
Why move out to the desert when you can live in MA where the average person worships the ground you walk on. You would not believe the things done and the laws bent for these people. Heck we had a major Green alternative power project scraped because it spoiled their sailing area.
RagTag on August 20, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Hitler and Stalin were American politicians? Really?
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Thanks for the fix, I can’t believe I said destroyer, I know it was the 109, as for the Pipers, I forgot the model. I was just joking about a family that should get away from water.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Way to minimalize what Hitler and Stalin did.
“Demented” works just fine for you.
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:20 AM
This is like arguing with a brick wall. There’s a middle ground between respect and death cupcakes.
BadgerHawk on August 20, 2009 at 11:20 AM
No. The only acted like republicans, conservatives, bible clingers and NASCAR fans.
RagTag on August 20, 2009 at 11:20 AM
..one wonders how the revenues from his endorsing that lne of U.S. Divers’ snorkels is working out?
VoyskaPVO on August 20, 2009 at 11:20 AM
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:19 AM
You’re right, Hitler and Stalin are bad comparisons.
A more apt comparison (especially if Teddy is cremated), would be the Hindenburg disaster.
One big gas bag burning itself out.
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM
What does geographical location have to do with it? If anything, a traitor like Kennedy is worse than a foreign despot, really.
TMK on August 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM
What has their nationality have to do with it. You’ve stated the American Politician argument more than once. I’d have to deduce that Ted might be a monster but gets a free pass in your book because he’s an American Politician.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Lightening AGAIN LOL
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Nice.
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:24 AM
We must have been cut from the same bolt of cloth :)
TMK on August 20, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Yes, you’re absolutely right. An American citizen who disagrees with us politically is worse than Hitler.
Godwin, we hardly knew ye.
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:25 AM
Actually BOTH were a form of SOCIALIST, BOTH had very liberal ideas of the value of a human life, BOTH hated organized religion, Hitler was into the occult, Stalin killed Christians, and while Hitler loved cars and racing in the 1930s, (Mercedes & Auto Union) his “peoples car” was more in tune with what the wacko left wanted people to drive so no “NASCAR” could of been created.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Hypocrital all the way to his grave.
Masschusetts deserves him though, they keep sending him back.
EconomicNeocon on August 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM
LOl..scary
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM
You consider him a monster because he disagrees with you politically, because he’s not a monster for being a drunk idiot with no regard for other people. Dancing on his grave because he pursued what the other half of the country wants him to pursue is monstrous.
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Neil’s not wearing a pony tail on his current tour.
PKO Strany on August 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM
I haven’t read all four pages of comments, but my take on this is that is is not partisan, it is about the Kennedys.
Obviously, Teddy wants one of his kids or nieces/nephews to be appointed to his
Senate seatfamily sinecure. Since they are singularly undistinguished (and some have proven to have morals even worse than Uncle Ted’s), none of them would have a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning an actual election, especially in this anti-Democrat, anti-government environment.Has anyone commented about the possible amazing irony that if Ted dies and this law has not been changed, Mitt Romney might actually run for the Senate — and win?
rockmom on August 20, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Man that went right over my head.
Now that it was pointed out I see it was quite good.
I’m a former pilot so I get nit picky with aviation stuff. It’s nasty to say but I and a lot of other pilots I know think JFK Jr. did a disservice to pilots with that flight. He really should have scrubbed the flight because it was a pooch screw from the start. He took off late and without the instructor that was going to accompany him because it was a new plane he didn’t have much time in. Rumor has it the instructor backed out because of conditions and other pilots I’ve talked to said that it was really nasty between Block Island and the Vineyard that night.
There is and old saying that Stupidity is natures dead sentence and JFK Jr. was stupid on that night.
RagTag on August 20, 2009 at 11:29 AM
I think this disagreement over the dead is pretty common with those lacking a deep understanding of Scripture. I’d be willing to bet BadgerHawk and MadLibertarian are reacting this why due to the prevailing superstitions toward “speaking ill” left over from previous eras.
They probably don’t understand how the Bible describes death as the sword that even the craftiest brigand can’t escape as we do.
TMK on August 20, 2009 at 11:30 AM
You disagree with me sometimes, which makes you Worse Than Hitler.
There’s an amusing t-shirt in there somewhere.
TheUnrepentantGeek on August 20, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Isn’t this just another ploy to get Her Highness Queen Caroline into her rightly deserved, appointed seat?
Um, you know, um, financial disclosures are for, you know, um, the peasants.
BlueStateBilly on August 20, 2009 at 11:30 AM
I understand, you’re much too genteel to ever understand a boorish action such as celebrating someones death. So let’s leave it at that, I’m the ugly, stupid hill billy that the GOP would love to hide, and you are the refined, genteel country club conservative that warms the heart of a Rockerfeller.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Click on his blue name and go to his blog. Rummage around in his archives. There is a lot of insight there into the mind of a far-left liberal who has come trolling.
I say he has a bet in DKOS about how many post he can get in prior to a hammer falling on him. Just a thought.
Yoop on August 20, 2009 at 11:31 AM
“Isn’t this just another ploy to get Her Highness Queen Caroline into her rightly deserved, appointed seat?
Um, you know, um, financial disclosures are for, you know, um, the peasants.
BlueStateBilly on August 20, 2009 at 11:30 AM”
Excellent deduction..very quick,..I hadn’t even thought of that moron.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:31 AM
You forget the holocaust of human children caused by Kennedy and his ilk. Else you condone it, which makes you his ilk.
TMK on August 20, 2009 at 11:31 AM
I am really curious to see who the voters would put into office given the chance. Could the seat actually switch to a Republican? I think the voters mood is the biggest fear of these people, more so than continuing the Kennedy legacy.
CBP on August 20, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Yeah I did.
CBP on August 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Ever watch the Gregalogues from Red Eye? He usually ends with that quote.
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Gov Patrick should appoint Michael Vick to Kennedy’s senate seat. Oh…he only drowns dogs
Bevan on August 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM
..or..they’re that genteel “Country Club” conservative the GOP loves so much.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:33 AM
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:25 AM
Yes, it’s all about disagreements.
He says tomatoe and I say toomatooh.
Never mind that because of him, our country has been saddled with unemployable, angry immigrants who hate our country.
Never mind that Ted tirelessly worked to legalize, normalize and promote abortion.
Never mind that Ted did everything possible to undermine and destroy every Republican President.
Those were just “disagreements”.
You’ve convinced me, I’ll start planning my “Ted’s Dead” party. Shall I place you on my list?
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 11:33 AM
I meant Caroline was the MORON, not you…LOL..I saw that could come out wrong too late
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:34 AM
See if I can remember what the bush pilots used to say that ferried me around on so many projects:
‘There are bold pilots, and old pilots, but there aren’t many old, bold pilots.”
Yoop on August 20, 2009 at 11:34 AM
What has their nationality have to do with it. You’ve stated the American Politician argument more than once. I’d have to deduce that Ted might be a monster but gets a free pass in your book because he’s an American Politician.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009
He’s a drunken, whore-mongering killer of young women, but he’s OUR drunken, whore-mongering killer of young women, dammit! Show some respect.
SKYFOX on August 20, 2009 at 11:35 AM
<– waving my hands around and speaking with a “SF lisp”..
“I’ll just die if he comes to your death party and not mine”.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I had my liberal glasses on when I posted that.
On a serious note. It’s truly amazes me how aligned the liberal left is with the likes of Hitler and Stalin but use them as an insulting label for conservatives. It kind of escapes me why this is when it is so blatant and easily looked up. It’s like the acknowledge that they are evil people but don’t understand exactly why.
RagTag on August 20, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Hm. So Ted Kennedy ordered millions of people to be put into concentration camps, worked to death, and eventually murdered en masse. Because, I’m sure you weren’t comparing that to millions of women making their own choice to have abortions, right?
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:36 AM
…but you forgot…KILLER OF BABIES too…can’t forget that.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Everyone who’s anyone will be at MY death party.
Surrender now and I’ll let you bring the Leinenkugel’s.
I like Amber.
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Rome fell…
yubley on August 20, 2009 at 11:37 AM
I’m afraid I have no eloquence or witty remarks today, but merely a simple warning. We are five years, maybe ten, tops, away from elements of the populace just simply refusing to be governed by those of the other party. They will withdraw their consent from the social compact. These elements exist on both sides, but the power and willingness of the media to carry water for one side and not the other means it most likely will be a case like this one, where a Democrat gets too cute with the rules yet again, the media will not castigate as they would with a Republican, real consequences for who holds power result, the camel’s back gets broken, and future republics get a useful object lesson in what not to do (the way Athens was needed to show both democracy could be done and how not to do it).
Five years. Ten years tops. At that time we will see if E.J. Dionne’s argument laid out elsewhere today has any, shall we say, logical fallacies that are at war with what experience has shown.
Horatius on August 20, 2009 at 11:37 AM
TMK on August 20, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Yeah, they were.
Please let me know how you feel when liberals throw parties the day Dubya dies. Please tell me how you felt when they were toasting the death of Reagan. Finally, tell me how it feels to be just as vile.
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:38 AM
I’ll compare it to the millions of UNBORN humans that, like those in the consentration camps, NEVER HAD A CHOICE.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Neil’s not wearing a ponytail on this tour.
PKO Strany on August 20, 2009 at 11:38 AM
concentration
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:38 AM
LOL
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:39 AM
Sorry, 11:38 was inadvertent.
PKO Strany on August 20, 2009 at 11:40 AM
When the motives are to see millions of “undesirables” dead, and the results are millions of “undesirables” dead, I don’t dither over the methods like a nuanced liberal.
TMK on August 20, 2009 at 11:40 AM
FIFY. YW.
Califemme on August 20, 2009 at 11:40 AM
“Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Everyone who’s anyone will be at MY death party.
Surrender now and I’ll let you bring the Leinenkugel’s.
I like Amber.
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 11:37 AM”
LOL…OK..A case of Leinies Amber and don’t forget the Johnsonville Brats
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Now you’ve hit on the real Achilles heel of the Kennedy clan. Their arrogance and sense of entitlement that normal rules do not apply. JFK Jr. was flying a plane he wasn’t really qualified to fly but thought he could manage. Teddy Kennedy inadvertently killed a woman and figured out how to get away with it. Michael Kennedy (RFK’s son) was killed because he was on a ski slope too advanced for his skills. Patrick Kennedy has managed to stay in public office despite having mental problems and being a habitual abuser of substances.
Not one member of the Kennedy clan is worth a bucket of spit and yet they have been lionized by the media.
highhopes on August 20, 2009 at 11:42 AM
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Uh, no they aren’t.
Disagreements are petty little things that can be overlooked.
This guy fundamentally changed the course of this country and has implemented what I would argue are unconstitutional, immoral and irrational policies that deeply affect my life and the lives of those I love.
I don’t give a damn about Ted Kennedy and I’ll be glad when he’s dead, because he’ll no longer be able to make any more policies that will affect me.
We can disagree on that.
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 11:42 AM
I’ll compare it to the millions of UNBORN humans that, like those in the concentration camps, NEVER HAD A CHOICE.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009
Since Teddy (hic) Kennedy didn’t actually perform the abortions, can we conclude that he just has the penumbra of blood on his hands?
SKYFOX on August 20, 2009 at 11:44 AM
True..and a minor amount of “lionization” in here.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Exactly how would all those “undesirables” be dead if each individual mother didn’t decide to kill them?
Gee, thanks for telling me. I totally wasn’t aware.
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:45 AM
While he wasn’t the only one with blood on his hands, he IS a leading member of that bunch of butchers.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Ugh.
Gee, thanks for telling me. I totally wasn’t aware.
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:45 AM
One thing that astounds me is the way the drunken killer is holding on to power. If I were diagnosed with a terminal illness, I wouldn’t be wasting one minute more in the US Senate. I’d be out putting my life in order and getting the most out of the time left.
highhopes on August 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM
What is it with Kennedy’s hating elections?
They’re starting to believe their own media hype about being America’s royalty. Wow.
Iblis on August 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM
FIFY.
TMK on August 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM
Don’t forget that Ted Kennedy’s legacy also includes the disgraceful smearing of Judge Robert Bork, who otherwise would be sitting on the Supreme Court today instead of the semi-worthless Anthony Kennedy. And this began the deterioration of the judicial nomination process into hyper-partisanship, which has produced tremendous and unnecessary political division in America, prevented many qualified people, liberal as well as conservative, from being confirmed to the federal bench and scared many others away from even trying, and politicized the Judicial Branch in a way that certainly has the Founders rolling over in their graves. It has led to mediocrities like Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court.
Ted Kennedy deserves nothing but scorn for all of this. It is a horrible legacy he leaves, not a positive one for anyone except his own overrated family.
rockmom on August 20, 2009 at 11:48 AM
Let me just grind my teeth here a minute while you read this:
President Obama on Thursday named 16 people, including leading scientist Stephen Hawking and U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, as the recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House said in a statement.
…
Senator Edward M. Kennedy has served in the United States Senate for forty-six years, and has been one of the greatest lawmakers – and leaders – of our time. From reforming our public schools to strengthening civil rights laws and supporting working Americans, Senator Kennedy has dedicated his career to fighting for equal opportunity, fairness and justice for all Americans. He has worked tirelessly to ensure that every American has access to quality and affordable health care, and has succeeded in doing so for countless children, seniors, and Americans with disabilities. He has called health care reform the “cause of his life,” and has championed nearly every health care bill enacted by Congress over the course of the last five decades. Known as the “Lion of the Senate,” Senator Kennedy is widely respected on both sides of the aisle for his commitment to progress and his ability to legislate.
So tell me, everyone. Is it for his ability to drive freely, not caring about where the road ends? Or is it his ability to swim free of a submersed car with an innocent woman inside?
Tell me, Senator, about Mary Jo Kopechne’s freedom. Did you contribute to hers, or did you drunkenly revoke hers?
Sorry, but I can’t really type more without having to censor most of my words.
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:48 AM
grind
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:48 AM
…you’re comparing American woman to German soldiers.
I wasn’t aware American women were under orders to kill their children. I’m pretty sure they make their own damned choice.
German soldiers were under orders to kill.
Your comparison is ludicrous, and disgusting.
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Fools like MadLibertarian believe that if the sin is spread around to millions, it absolves the creature who initiated the slaughter… unless Hitler did it.
TMK on August 20, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Wow, the very SAME person that warns he’s about to SWEAR ion here because someone got a stupid award, finds fault with me celebrating the same persons death. Amazing
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 11:50 AM
And yet, I never wished for his death, or would celebrate it. Frankly, my anger in that post was more towards Obama and to those sugar-coating Teddy’s career.
MadisonConservative on August 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM
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