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My Disagreement With the Kennedy Narrative

posted at 1:57 am on August 30, 2009 by Doctor Zero
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After five days of flood-the-zone news coverage, eulogies, and encomiums, filled with hundreds of op-ed pieces and blog posts, the Democrats have made their vision of Senator Edward Kennedy’s life and career crystal clear. I’ve had some fun at their expense, but the late Senator has now been returned to the earth at Arlington, and fun time is over. I have some serious disagreements with the things I’ve heard from the Left over the last few days.

I do not believe a political career is worth a young woman’s life. Period. I don’t think Mary Jo Kopechne was proud to die for Ted Kennedy. I don’t think her horrifying death was a necessary human sacrifice to enable his “fortunate fall.” Ted Kennedy was not the victim of Chappaquiddick. Anyone who believes those things is a degenerate who should be shunned by civilized people.

I disagree with the notion that any aspect of Kennedy’s life “redeemed” him for the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Redemption requires contrition, an admission of guilt. Kennedy never admitted responsibility or guilt for what happened at Chappaquiddick. I wish he had, because the idea of so many people rushing to grant him undeserved absolution is nauseating.

I disagree that the world will “sorely miss” the “moral clarity” of someone who enjoyed jokes about the woman who died because of his cowardice and lust for power. The human race will be greatly improved when it is infested by fewer such creatures.

I disagree that we should be more eager to pass an increasingly unpopular, blatantly unconstitutional, ridiculously expensive bill that would destroy the health-care industry, just because a dead politician from a wealthy and powerful family would have wanted it.

I don’t believe that destroying the reputation of a judge, through insane and reckless allegations that challenge his very humanity, represents great statesmanship. He tried the same slimy tactics he used on Robert Bork against Clarence Thomas. I don’t think the legacy of personal destruction Ted Kennedy inaugurated during the Bork confirmation hearings has been a plus for America.

I don’t believe that a man who worked with the Soviet Union to undermine American policy, slandered American troops while they were fighting battles in the streets of Iraq, and helped abandon the Cambodians to genocide was either a patriot, or a noble citizen of the world. His loyalty was to his own ambitions, to his Party, and to the country he thought America might become, if it would submit to his ideas. The loyalty of an arrogant man is always diluted by a measure of treachery.

I don’t believe a man fighting for his life against a brain tumor should be denied care under a quality of life formula, in a rationed government health-care system. I also don’t think those quality of life spreadsheets should add a million extra points for being a powerful politician. The idea that Senator Kennedy would have been denied the care he needed, to gain his extra year of life, under socialized medicine is ridiculous – the government will never apply rationing to its ruling elite, or make them wait in line. The idea that everyone else should be expected to surrender in their struggle for life is monstrous.

I disagree that the architect of the “Big Dig” debacle, who saddled the country with trillions of dollars in debt, and tried to change the rules of Massachusetts senatorial succession in an embarrassingly transparent bid to keep those seats permanently in his party’s hands, is “the greatest legislator of our time,” as President Obama called him. If he is, then his career is proof that we need fewer “great legislators.” We can’t afford them any more. Did he support some important legislation? Certainly. The most indisputably noble bill he was associated with was the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Mary Jo Kopechne died in 1969. That should have been the end of him.

I don’t think a man who lied to the police, and dispatched henchmen to destroy the reputation of the victim, to help his nephew beat sexual assault charges is any sort of feminist hero. Let me know when the feminists think it’s okay for a Republican to be one of the slices of bread in a waitress sandwich. The idea that political positions convey a supreme virtue, trumping abhorrent personal behavior, should be buried with Kennedy.

I disagree that someone’s party affiliation, position in the government, or last name should put them above the law. I disagree that four decades of squatting in a safe Senate seat is admirable, for anyone of any political party. I don’t see anything to applaud about a notorious womanizer with a spotless record of abortion extremism. I don’t find anything noble about a man born to wealth and privilege seeking moral authority by socking struggling middle-class businessmen with the bill for his high-minded social programs… especially when he took every opportunity to shelter his own income from taxes.

Many reasons have been offered for Ted Kennedy’s long, expensive, debased career: He was trading on his family name. The voters of Massachusetts thrust him on the country by perpetually re-electing him. It was America’s collective fault for letting him get away with Chappaquiddick. The media loved him because they love epic tales of heroic liberal politicians. We can learn not to repeat all of those mistakes.

When you go into the voting booths next year, remember what the past week has taught you about the Democrats. It would have been one thing to offer a salute to the parts of his political agenda they agreed with, while acknowledging the dark side. The full-on hagiography, coupled with the disgusting attempts to dismiss Mary Jo Kopechne’s life as a small price to pay for political power, reveal that this party knows nothing about the meaning of redemption, responsibility, and the value of individual human lives. The rest of us can neither afford nor tolerate anyone like Ted Kennedy, ever again.

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Another excellent post Doc. You’ve summed it up very eloquently. The guy was scum, bottom line.

lyfsatrip on August 30, 2009 at 5:43 AM

Another excellent post, DZ.

Ex-Dem on August 30, 2009 at 7:11 AM

You are preaching to the choir, Doctor.

I hope that your exposition gets wide, wide distribution. It says, so eloquently and succinctly, what we feel about not only Senator Kennedy’s hubris but what we feel about the attempts by politicians to hoodwink us by lying to us.

When I saw, briefly, the video of the Kennedy clan kneeling at the foot of Kennedy’s casket, moving their mouths in obvious “fake” prayer, I had to laugh long and hard as I changed the channel to a Ronald Reagan movie. The acting was better in the Reagan movie!

Keep writing for us, Doctor Zero. It’s uplifting, indeed!

ExpressoBold on August 30, 2009 at 7:50 AM

Doctor Zero, I like your writing style. A clean, comprehensive approach, with detailed, well-illuminated points backed up with solid links. Your style approaches that of one of the all-time greats of internet writings; there’s even been rumors and wonderings as to if you are that writer. The writer who, in years past, referred to Uncle Ted with such phraseology as “skin-covered beerkeg”, “A fleshy, magnificent anvil with ears is what you’ve got. It’s spectacular !”, and “It’s like your neck gave birth to a giant ham”. Alas, he is silent, for the now.

Just tell us this: you have read some Jeff Goldstein, right?

Serr8d on August 30, 2009 at 8:16 AM

Doctor Zero, I like your writing style. A clean, comprehensive approach, with detailed, well-illuminated points backed up with solid links. Your style approaches that of one of the all-time greats of internet writings; there’s even been rumors and wonderings as to if you are that writer. The writer who, in years past, referred to Uncle Ted with such phraseology as “skin-covered beerkeg”, “A fleshy, magnificent anvil with ears is what you’ve got. It’s spectacular !”, and “It’s like your neck gave birth to a giant ham”. Alas, he is silent, for the now.

Just tell us this: you have read some Jeff Goldstein, right?

Serr8d on August 30, 2009 at 8:16 AM

I’m not Jeff Goldstein, but I do love Protein Wisdom. “Skin-covered beerkeg” is the kind of line that puts coffee on computer monitor.

Doctor Zero on August 30, 2009 at 8:31 AM

When you go into the voting booths next year…

A little off-topic, but maybe not a new Rasmussen poll:

57% Would Like to Replace Entire Congress

http://tinyurl.com/n4brqg

BDU-33 on August 30, 2009 at 8:52 AM

…knows nothing about the meaning of redemption, responsibility, and the value of individual human lives.

Amen.

publiuspen on August 30, 2009 at 11:24 AM

So England can’t shed its love affair with monarchy; now that the prince of tyranny has been returned to the ash heap, can we now move along?

ericdijon on August 30, 2009 at 11:35 AM

Some may speculate as to who you are, but I honestly don’t care. Your writing is crisp, cogent and entertaining. You could be a fry cook at Denny’s, but I don’t care. I just want you to keep writing great pieces like this.

Stickeehands on August 30, 2009 at 1:34 PM

Excellent post. Thank you for saying what needs to be said,but should have been clear to anyone with a moral compass.
Character DOES matter.
To quote Triumph, the dog, “I poop on you” Ted Kennedy.

conservativegrandma on August 30, 2009 at 1:35 PM

Excellent!

BobH on August 30, 2009 at 1:36 PM

Nice post again Dr. Z. Thx.

clorensen on August 30, 2009 at 1:38 PM

Brilliant!

solidaction on August 30, 2009 at 1:41 PM

The thing I struggle with most is that people actually believe the Official Ted Kennedy Biography.

They know all of this, but they believe their own transparent attempts to white-wash Ted’s past.

It boggles my mind.

Aquateen Hungerforce on August 30, 2009 at 1:42 PM

Whatever you are paying the Doctor, double it.

Cinday Blackburn on August 30, 2009 at 1:43 PM

The only good thing I could see coming out of this would be for the liberal media to tell Democrats, “This is it, no more passes. We’re going to treat you exactly the same way we’ve treated Republicans.” I could live with that.

bflat879 on August 30, 2009 at 1:47 PM

This just in…

Dr. Zero’s invitation to speak at the next meeting of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce has been rescinded.

That’s ok. The weather here on Cape Cod has sucked this summer anyway.

Great post, Doc. Believe it or not, there are plenty of us here in Teddy’s neighborhood that agree with you wholeheartedly.

And it will be a true delight to actually vote for a Senator to fill that seat for the first time in my life.

turfmann on August 30, 2009 at 1:49 PM

Despite the pseudo-sophisticated idea that all political parties are the same, I’ll cast my lot with the party of Goldwater and Reagan, over the party of Kennedy and that shallow, narcissist jerk Obama any day of the week.

BCrago66 on August 30, 2009 at 1:52 PM

On a substantive note, Ken Blackwell shines at NRO:

We should pass Obamacare as a tribute to the Senate’s liberal lion, they tell us. And Ted Kennedy was the most liberal of the lions. He challenged President Carter from the far-left wing of a left-liberal party. He demanded taxpayer funding of abortion. He opposed low-income parents’ choosing safe and effective schools for their kids. He fought welfare reform — a reform that affirmed dignity, marriage, and work. He degraded the process of judicial confirmation, mauling Robert Bork and every constitutionalist nominee since. He fought to end true marriage — and marriage, not welfare, is the greatest boon to the poor. If we do pass Obamacare, it will achieve Ted Kennedy’s cherished goal of a government of the liberals, by the liberals, and for the liberals. If it’s lions versus Christians, I’ll stand with the Christians.

clorensen on August 30, 2009 at 1:54 PM

Doctor excellent shooting, it’s nice duck season is open.

tim c on August 30, 2009 at 1:54 PM

Great article as usual. Kennedy was another of a long line of “Do As I say not as I do” pols. Perfect example is his opposition to the offshore windmills off of Cape Cod. Although he and his ilk want the common man to sacrifice, they fight tooth and nail when the time comes for self-sacrifice.

Mr. Curly on August 30, 2009 at 1:57 PM

Uh yep!

sMack on August 30, 2009 at 1:58 PM

After hearing Senator Hatch wax poetic on the radio about his fondness for Teddy the Cuddly Comedian, Doc’s piece was the shower I needed to clean off the Camelot bile.

T J Green on August 30, 2009 at 2:00 PM

Right On!

Too bad this will never see the front page of the Boston Globe.

GarandFan on August 30, 2009 at 2:01 PM

I do not believe a political career is worth a young woman’s life. Period. I don’t think Mary Jo Kopechne was proud to die for Ted Kennedy. I don’t think her horrifying death was a necessary human sacrifice to enable his “fortunate fall.” Ted Kennedy was not the victim of Chappaquiddick. Anyone who believes those things is a degenerate who should be shunned by civilized people.

I disagree with the notion that any aspect of Kennedy’s life “redeemed” him for the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Redemption requires contrition, an admission of guilt. Kennedy never admitted responsibility or guilt for what happened at Chappaquiddick. I wish he had, because the idea of so many people rushing to grant him undeserved absolution is nauseating.

Agree with the 2nd graph but not the first. Ted should have gone to jail for what he did, but it is a testament to corruption that he didn’t. Also, from my viewpoint, Ted’s legislative efforts left the country worse off, not better. However, his accomplishments in the senate were momentous and of far greater consequence to the country than the life of Mary Joe Kopechne or, now, his life. For those who believed in his legislative agenda, and, correctly, believed that it required someone named “Kennedy” to accomplish it one innocent life was collateral damage in the effort to socialize as much of the US economy as they could.

dedalus on August 30, 2009 at 2:05 PM

Well said. If he was was not a Kennedy but a Smith would he be so admired? would he have gotten away with the things he did?

uber on August 30, 2009 at 2:05 PM

Listened to a Sunday show featuring a teary eyed former staffer who was left unpaid after Teddy’s failed 1980 presidential bid to out-left Jimmy C. It seems that the trust-fund-uber-millionare stiffed staffers for the litte-guy faux cause. Ironic moronic. We are all volunteers to rich liberals.

clorensen on August 30, 2009 at 2:05 PM

Dr. Zero,

You forgot the cheating stuff at Harvard but, hey, with as many fish in the barrel as the Kennedy clan gives us, it’s just not possible to kill every fish.

Anyhoo, thanks for saying all the things I would have said if I could write that well.

MaxMBJ on August 30, 2009 at 2:08 PM

“However, his accomplishments in the senate were momentous and of far greater consequence to the country than the life of Mary Joe Kopechne or, now, his life.”

So what?

Only an ethical collectivist judges the value of human life from an entirely social perspective. Those who are not collectivists, who know the intrinsic value of human life, also know that Doctor Zero got it right.

BCrago66 on August 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM

Hatch and all the repubs slobbering over Teddy just demonstrates further how much the real divide in this country is with those of the New York/Washington power corridors and the of us … the “real America” as Sarah once put it.

It’s time to throw the bums out, all of them.

MaxMBJ on August 30, 2009 at 2:13 PM

Great post Doc……….

…… so good in fact, that I had to share it here.

Seven Percent Solution on August 30, 2009 at 2:18 PM

So what?

Only an ethical collectivist judges the value of human life from an entirely social perspective. Those who are not collectivists, who know the intrinsic value of human life, also know that Doctor Zero got it right.

BCrago66 on August 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM

Are you opposed then to any endeavor with a higher purpose because some individuals may lose their lives. Does anyone who then pursues a goal that may cost lives become a collectivist?

Ted was a flawed man, perhaps even a bad man. However, for those who believed in his cause (and i think it was a bad cause) he was a necessary agent for whom there were few if any substitutes.

dedalus on August 30, 2009 at 2:18 PM

Well said, good doctor. But answer me this: What exactly did this person do to earn the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

barrypopik on August 30, 2009 at 2:18 PM

Dr. Zero you did it again. Well done.

fesofee on August 30, 2009 at 2:28 PM

Regarding your link to the HuffPo piece on Mary Jo, this was my response to that writer which they refused to post:

Surely you jest. I’m sure Mary Jo was thinking just what a wonderful man Kennedy was and the good things in store for the nation with him as a Senator as she took her last breath. Other than by his own testimony, he made no effort to get help, nor did any of his friends or family. Had he at least stopped by one of the houses along his way to request help, he’d have been given the benefit of the doubt, but he shows up in court wearing a prop and is given the minimum sentence that could be mustered. He gets an “annulment” from his wife of over a decade, then proceeds to live the life of the wastrel he was bred to be. The “civility” he’s so frequently enrobed in by his peers must have been at the cleaners the day he took the podium on the Senate floor to tear Robert Bork apart. And at the end, he sends Obama to the Pope to beg God for a reprieve of his human failings, with a note that, in spite of the fact that he’s always been the champion of abortion, he’ll make sure there’s a provision in the health care bill that Catholics OF faith would be excused from participating in a procedure that’s anathema to the Catholic church. How nice of him. Lastly to speak of his great sacrifice of the presidency, as though it was an entitlement through royal lineage, is absurd, but I suppose not to those who saw anything Kennedy as being above the rest. He was a cheat, a drunk, and an unremarkable soldier. Everything he had was handed to him, and his societal position was achieved through no effort or accomplishment other than that of his corrupt father “gettin’ lucky” one night with Rose.
I’d have been more charitable in my opinion of him if, following the accident at Chappaquiddick, he’d left the Senate to QUIETLY find some mission through which he could work to help bring about the values he’s so often heralded as having. Instead he hung on to his privilege and position like grim death, which, ironically, is the one thing he’s been unable to cheat.

tpitman on August 30, 2009 at 2:30 PM

Well, Doc, you’ve done it again. Nailed everything we’ve been feeling about this corpulent dilettante (or, fat bastard, for the trolls out there) over the years… and during the media’s latest Magical Kennedy Tour over the past week.

Then again, perhaps we should respect their blind fondess for a fool, and permit them their one last kiss.

TXUS on August 30, 2009 at 2:36 PM

~BINGO!

Wade on August 30, 2009 at 2:39 PM

Good riddance to one of the most vile political figures of the last half century, Ted Kennedy. To lionize his “accomplishments” is a slap in the face to the ideals upon which this country was founded.

Kennedy, as much as any politician, was responsible for the subjugation of Americans, and in particular minorities, under the iron jackboot of Progressivism. His legacy will be his utter lack of both shame and conscience when it came to the pursuit of its soft tyranny, all the while free riding on his family’s wealth and status.

He and his ilk are responsible for the welfare state and its oppressive regulatory structure that have brought us to the brink of economic and social ruin. He robbed generations of Americans of dignity and hope by purposely creating a desperate and dependent underclass for no other reason than to secure a reliable voting bloc. Unlike others, I believe that he would approve of the current exploitation of his death to forward his life’s work of destroying the most advanced health care system in the world. It is an ironic but fitting monument to his hypocrisy that he received in his last year of life the cutting edge benefits of the same system that he worked so tirelessly to deny others.

May God have mercy on his fetid soul… or not.

Joe C. on August 30, 2009 at 2:43 PM

Gonna show some love for Doc Zero and put this on my FaceBook
Wall and Tweet.

Not much, but it is what I can do to participate from Afghanistan.

donkichi on August 30, 2009 at 2:45 PM

You forgot the cheating stuff at Harvard but, hey, with as many fish in the barrel as the Kennedy clan gives us, it’s just not possible to kill every fish…

MaxMBJ on August 30, 2009 at 2:08 PM

Yeah, there’s that Harvard cheating scandal that was nicely hushed up.

But look at his paternal role model: a father who allowed radically experimental surgery on his eldest daughter Rosemary, which turned her into little better than a vegetable. And Ted finally showed up to visit her when she lay dying back in 2005. It made for good press. The entire family was a disaster.

Dr. Zero, you have put the late Sen. Kennedy’s massive failings in a far more charitable article that I ever could manage. Thank you.

stoutcat on August 30, 2009 at 2:46 PM

Speaking of Protein Wisdom, Jeff could use a few clicks on the tipjar. He’s got some kind of family medical issue he’s dealing with.

rokemronnie on August 30, 2009 at 2:46 PM

Right down the smokestack, Dr Z.

CPT. Charles on August 30, 2009 at 2:47 PM

Doc — you are my hero.

D2Boston on August 30, 2009 at 3:01 PM

Damn good work, please take Allah’s place at the helm.

echosyst on August 30, 2009 at 3:01 PM

The perpetual blind eye voters turned to Kennedy only because he was a Kennedy never ceases to amaze me.

ChalkPerson on August 30, 2009 at 3:06 PM

Straight-forward and, to the point. Kudos

Jeff2161 on August 30, 2009 at 3:12 PM

A Lefty Moonbat once told me about a friend of his that murdered his wife then committed suicide in front of his two young sons.

He said, “He didn’t want the kids to suffer because they (The Parents) couldn’t get along anymore. That was such a beautiful, selfless action on the dad’s part.”

One more reason why liberals are so unhinged.

GoodBoy on August 30, 2009 at 3:13 PM

Mary Jo Kopechne was available for comment.

40 years ago.

Sharke on August 30, 2009 at 3:14 PM

Bravo, Dr. Zero. I wish Mary Jo Kopechne could comment on your post as well. RIP EMK. Let’s put him behind us as best we can…but never forget that he represented everything we do not want in our politicians going forward.

MainelyRight on August 30, 2009 at 3:30 PM

It seems that the trust-fund-uber-millionare stiffed staffers for the litte-guy faux cause.

clorensen on August 30, 2009 at 2:05 PM

Not surprised by that. The Kennedys have always been hypocrites about money. They hide theirs in off-shore trusts so they won’t have to pay the heavy income tax burdens that they so willingly impose upon the rest of us to finance their Socialist wet dreams. I read an article the other day that disclosed details about some of those trusts. They had one Kennedy family trust set up in Fiji that had a principal amount of over $300 million — on which they paid U.S. income taxes of less than half of one percent! Sure, they want to “spread the wealth around” — as long as it’s our wealth, and not theirs, that’s getting spread around.

AZCoyote on August 30, 2009 at 3:34 PM

Well done, sir. An outstanding review of all the reasons why Teddy, and the Kennedy clan in general, is a total embarassment to the Irish American community.

As the son of Ireland born and bred parents, there was a time when there was a picture of JFK on the wall of every Irish household. No more.

NavyMustang on August 30, 2009 at 3:34 PM

Great stuff Doc. Would you please do the same type of critique or analysis of the more revered creeps in Congress that share similar behavioral standards with Ted?

How about the congressional creep of the week? Probably not enough weeks to ever get it done.

b3026 on August 30, 2009 at 3:45 PM

Bang on, DZ.

Maquis on August 30, 2009 at 3:45 PM

SUCC

Standing up clapping and cheering

faraway on August 30, 2009 at 3:56 PM

Way to beeyatch slap ‘em, Doc.

ncborn on August 30, 2009 at 3:59 PM

This is great. This is what I have been thinking all we. Thanks doc for putting it into words.

elBarto on August 30, 2009 at 4:15 PM

Haven’t read the rest of the comments, but just want to add my “well-done” to them. Very articulate and well-stated. Nail-head, meet hammer.

AZfederalist on August 30, 2009 at 4:31 PM

Doctor Zero–

If you do not make a living by your pen, you should. You have a “happy talent for composition and remarkable felicity of expression.”

publiuspen on August 30, 2009 at 4:42 PM

After reading the filth glorifying this monster in PuffHo & Joyce Carol Oates, I needed something to clear my head from their stench.

Thank you Doc. You did it for me and for everyone else who endured the hypocrisy of the last few days.

Amen for the good Doctor!

margategop517 on August 30, 2009 at 4:45 PM

Thanks Doc, I bear Kennedy no malice, but it is almost evil what the mainstream media have done to glorify their Teddy. I don’t remember any Senator getting that much media time at his death let alone the worship. It disgusts me. He wasn’t deserving of much beyond jail time, yet they make him out to be a saint. I pray God has more mercy on him than he had on Mary Jo. Thanks for setting the record straight links and all.

Christian Conservative on August 30, 2009 at 4:50 PM

Meanwhile liberals continue to live in their land of denial rewriting history for the next generation.

redridinghood on August 30, 2009 at 4:56 PM

Perseverance in the pursuit of evil is not a virtue. Which is all I will say about Ted Kennedy.

chemman on August 30, 2009 at 5:14 PM

The idea that political positions convey a supreme virtue, trumping abhorrent personal behavior, should be buried with Kennedy.

Exactly. I remember this idea being shoved down our throats about 10 years ago, by the defenders of the impeached Bill Clinton, who during his boyhood was lucky enough to get his picture taken shaking the hand of Ted’s older brother.

Bigfoot on August 30, 2009 at 5:21 PM

I’m wondering when criticism of Red Ted will become racist. After all, he endorsed Obama.

publicserf on August 30, 2009 at 5:40 PM

Bravo! *standing ovation*

becki51758 on August 30, 2009 at 5:41 PM

Sen Kennedy was a public Pharisee against whom his Lord railed. Whatever redemption Sen. Kennedy may have experienced was privately, on his deathbed, by the Grace of that same God. Let the dead bury the dead.
Randy

williars on August 30, 2009 at 5:52 PM

Brilliant Dr. Zero. You should get top billing at this site.

Basilsbest on August 30, 2009 at 5:56 PM

A bloated, profligate, dissolute hypocrite born of criminal, racist stock, raised to behavioral standards unworthy of livestock and unredeemed by his pronouncements and valuations of the ethics of his betters, Ted Kennedy rates no mourning by anyone who actually merits the title “a man”.

Doorgunner on August 30, 2009 at 6:16 PM

Some people are starting to get it.
POLL: 57% Would Vote to Replace Entire Congress…

Col.John Wm. Reed on August 30, 2009 at 6:33 PM

The only good thing I could see coming out of this would be for the liberal media to tell Democrats, “This is it, no more passes. We’re going to treat you exactly the same way we’ve treated Republicans.” I could live with that.

bflat879 on August 30, 2009 at 1:47 PM

There wouldn’t be many democrats left if they did that!

starboardhelm on August 30, 2009 at 6:44 PM

I do think Obama was right to call Teddy the “Soul of the Democratic Party”. If ever a political party had a soul, theirs is that of a drunken sailor.

starboardhelm on August 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM

Ted Kennedy: Human garbage

angryed on August 30, 2009 at 6:56 PM

For those who believed in his legislative agenda, and, correctly, believed that it required someone named “Kennedy” to accomplish it one innocent life was collateral damage in the effort to socialize as much of the US economy as they could.

dedalus on August 30, 2009 at 2:05 PM

While there ARE things worth dying for…

…there are very few things worth KILLING for.

And I am hard pressed, VERY hard pressed, to think of ANYTHING that Teddy did that would in any way, shape or form “balance” Mary Jo’s murder.

In fact, just the opposite.

Instead of redemption, he used his “get out of jail free” card to bludgeon and coarsen public debate and public service.

Religious_Zealot on August 30, 2009 at 7:04 PM

I often wonder what would have happened if the roles were reversed. Teddy drowns; Mary Jo survives.

TimBuk3 on August 30, 2009 at 7:23 PM

tpitman on August 30, 2009 at 2:30 PM

I, too, have been blacklisted by the great HuffPo. I consider it an honor, actually.

LEBA on August 30, 2009 at 7:47 PM

A great post, Doctor Oh! Thank you for speaking up for women, and especially for Mary Jo.

ElainaVer on August 30, 2009 at 9:13 PM

I got banned from InSessions Board (the huge Court TV board), in the political forum, for posting about Ted Kennedy’s best friend (Ed Klein). I even posted the video about the ‘laughing about Chappaquiddick’ remark, and yet I got the following notice: {You have been banned for the following reason:
offensive rumor-”Close friend: Kennedy liked to joke about Chappaquiddick??? ”

Date the ban will be lifted: Never}

Is offensive, I’ll give the Moderator that, but it is NOT a rumor.

ElainaVer on August 30, 2009 at 9:16 PM

Excellent article.
Zero is my Hero.

SmallGovtGuy on August 30, 2009 at 10:34 PM

Yeah. What he said.

Allah, Ed – maybe it’s time for a threesome on a regular basis?

A Friend of the Devil on August 30, 2009 at 10:46 PM

Thank you Dr. Zero.

After years of reading Hot Air… I was just about to leave when the “Green Room” arrived, and then Dr. Zero renewed my enthusiasm to check the site everyday once again.

its nice to have a reprieve from “I hate Glenn Beck except for when Michelle says the exact same thing at the exact same time… and I have to pretend to agree”. oh did I say that out loud?! At any rate… I’ve enjoyed reading Dr. Zero with great gusto whoever he or she may be.

Cassandros

Cassandros on August 30, 2009 at 11:45 PM

The rest of us can neither afford nor tolerate anyone like Ted Kennedy, ever again.

Unfortunately -

The tax evasion goes on,

the hypocrisy endures,

the unmitigated gall still lives,

and the supply of mindless fawning sheeple shall never die.

MB4 on August 31, 2009 at 1:54 AM

A little off-topic, but maybe not a new Rasmussen poll:

57% Would Like to Replace Entire Congress

http://tinyurl.com/n4brqg

BDU-33 on August 30, 2009 at 8:52 AM

So let’s see. 57% for replacing them. Must be at least 10% for hanging them. So at least 67% against congress.

MB4 on August 31, 2009 at 1:59 AM

Dr. Zero,

You forgot the cheating stuff at Harvard but, hey, with as many fish in the barrel as the Kennedy clan gives us, it’s just not possible to kill every fish.

MaxMBJ on August 30, 2009 at 2:08 PM

And also don’t forget his daddy money bags pulling influence for him during the Korean war to have him sent to Paris instead of Korea. I wonder who went in his place and what happened to him. Does anyone know if there were any unsolved drownings in Paris during the Korean war?

MB4 on August 31, 2009 at 2:03 AM

I have only two words for this narrative…

Thank you!

belad on August 31, 2009 at 3:34 PM

And the good doctor knocks another one out of the park. :)

ZK on September 1, 2009 at 7:18 AM


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