Make Room For Teddy
If there was a member of Congress more symbolic of the need for term limits, more symbolic of their loss of touch with the realities of the average American and more unfit to serve in any capacity other than the drunk who hangs out by the bar begging for change, it is the inestimable Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. This week's hearings to confirm Sam Alito to the Supreme Court has given Teddy a chance to really pontificate. His quotes sound like they came out of a Grisham novel and some tend to make you wonder if he's looked in a mirror lately.
This man has spent over forty years in the Senate, a child of privilege, heir to a fortune built on a criminal enterprise, bloviating and blustering about every perceived injustice with himself as the sole champion of the people. The casting of himself as such a hero figure brings to mind old Saddam's pictures of himself muscularly drawn saving some blonde damsel from some evil creature. Teddy is a 70 plus year old Frat Boy transplanted from his Greek kegger, I mean council, to the halls of Congress.
Normally, I wouldn't pick on a man just for being who he is. We all are the sum of our parts, for good or ill. We all do our best and at the end of the day it's assumed most of us are on the same side. Teddy is simply a sparkling caricature of the worst a man can be in the Senate, of one who has stayed too long, of a man who perhaps never did understand or care to comprehend those he claims to serve.
From Teddy, we get nanny-state legislation and social justice issues designed to set any who are of his own party and left of Che as the heroes and all else as Scrooges and Grinches, evil fascists who would corrupt and control all that was good in Camelot. For Teddy, it is not a matter of taking money from hard-working families or wealthy entrepreneurs to redistribute in his socialist schemes to those who did not make the best choices in life. It is about being charitable to those less fortunate, and no one but he can be trusted to be charitable unless the full power and might of the federal government is brought to bear on them. We must be made to be nice, so it goes with Teddy.
And feel free to do whatever vice your heart desires. A man who walked away from a drowning secretary could think no less. That's the Teddy way. That is, of course, unless it doesn't mesh with his beer-goggle view of society. Morals are a virtue Teddy can't abide. If he can't have them, surely no one else really does either.
Again, I'm not usually one for a hit piece, but the author of these quotes sort of begs for it:
"In an era when too many Americans are losing their jobs, or working for less and trying to make ends meet, in close cases Judge Alito has ruled the vast majority of the time against the claims of individual citizens. He has acted instead in favor of the government, large corporations, and other powerful interests."
As opposed to Teddy, who has never been in favor of government over individual citizens or powerful special interests... Hypocrisy, they name is "Beer Funnel Teddy".
"In an era when the White House is abusing power, is excusing and authorizing torture, and is spying on American citizens, I find Judge Alito's support for an all-powerful executive branch to be genuinely troubling.”
At least, as long as the Executive is run by Republicans. Previous Democrat administrations who did the same either didn't meet this criteria with Teddy or perhaps he was on a bender at the time.
“Under the presidents spying program, there are no checks and no balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen infringement on the civil rights and liberties of the American people. Undeterred by the public outcry, the president vows to continue spying on American citizens”.
He must’ve missed Bill Moyers using the same power at the behest of LBJ to order Hoover’s FBI to hunt down dirt on Goldwater’s campaign staffers. Perhaps he also missed a former bouncer turned “Security Director” in the Clinton White House illegally holding hundreds of classified FBI files on prominent Republicans. And maybe news of Clinton’s ordering of the FBI to use ECHELON for domestic spying was overlooked in his rush to get to Happy Hour at O’Feelemup’s Pub that day. Being such a radical means never having to acknowledge what a raging hypocrite you are.
“Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess the proper balance between protecting our liberties and protecting our national security."
No word on whether independent and impartial includes making law up out of whole cloth, discovering laws in emanations of penumbras, or finding the justification in a foreign court’s cracker jack box along with the tin whistle prize. Apparently, those sorts of judges are ok.
And lastly, I consider any man who would leave a woman to drown while he walked away to relative comfort as not a man and certainly one who can no longer claim any moral or ethical high ground in criticizing anyone let alone holding public office. The very fact that the Massachusetts Left has chosen to curse us with his presence for all these years, I think, earns them a special place in Hell. And thus ends my character assassination. I’ll attempt to return to more even-handed debates on the merits of topics in the future.
As I was composing this, I heard the news that Teddy was dredging up a 20 plus year old membership in Concerned Alumni of Princeton for Alito. I'm sorry, next will we learn that he has a dangerous and delusional history of believing in fantasy characters because as a child he was a member of the Mickey Mouse Club? Perhaps what was funnier in all this tragedy was Teddy's own Democratic colleague, Dianne Feinstein, who had to keep coaching Teddy because he was too (senile, drunk, fill in your own word and enjoy the joke) to finish his lefty talking point assault against Alito. Teddy read off an article from CAP's publication that of course was made to sound worse than it was. The article appeared to be attacking affirmative action and the like, but you couldn't really tell that from the way it was read before the Senate. One would think CAP wanted to lynch the minorities and send the women back to the kitchen.
That this magazine article from twenty years ago was spun that way was predictable, albeit DATED. Should we spin Walter Duranty's 1930's era articles on Stalin as the current view of the New York Times? Well, maybe that's a bad example. Anyway, they brought out the old canard of "guilt by association". This was used most effectively by the communists and fascists of a bygone era from Germany to Russia to Cambodia. An easy way to establish guilt where there is none is to take an associated figure, even one only loosely associated to your intended target, and smear the target with the opinion or perceived wrong doing of the associate.
This, if you'd asked your favorite leftist any other day would've been called *gasp* *double gasp* McCarthyism. That's right. Although McCarthyism from Joseph McCarthy, when viewed through a more objective prism, wasn't so much what the Left fondly reminisces as McCarthyism, if you watched Teddy Kennedy assaulting Samuel Alito, you saw what does realistically fit that definition. He made the rest of the rabid Dems look tame by comparison. Something for the Dems to be proud of, wouldn't you say? Make room for Teddy.
If there was a member of Congress more symbolic of the need for term limits, more symbolic of their loss of touch with the realities of the average American and more unfit to serve in any capacity other than the drunk who hangs out by the bar begging for change, it is the inestimable Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. This week's hearings to confirm Sam Alito to the Supreme Court has given Teddy a chance to really pontificate. His quotes sound like they came out of a Grisham novel and some tend to make you wonder if he's looked in a mirror lately.
This man has spent over forty years in the Senate, a child of privilege, heir to a fortune built on a criminal enterprise, bloviating and blustering about every perceived injustice with himself as the sole champion of the people. The casting of himself as such a hero figure brings to mind old Saddam's pictures of himself muscularly drawn saving some blonde damsel from some evil creature. Teddy is a 70 plus year old Frat Boy transplanted from his Greek kegger, I mean council, to the halls of Congress.
Normally, I wouldn't pick on a man just for being who he is. We all are the sum of our parts, for good or ill. We all do our best and at the end of the day it's assumed most of us are on the same side. Teddy is simply a sparkling caricature of the worst a man can be in the Senate, of one who has stayed too long, of a man who perhaps never did understand or care to comprehend those he claims to serve.
From Teddy, we get nanny-state legislation and social justice issues designed to set any who are of his own party and left of Che as the heroes and all else as Scrooges and Grinches, evil fascists who would corrupt and control all that was good in Camelot. For Teddy, it is not a matter of taking money from hard-working families or wealthy entrepreneurs to redistribute in his socialist schemes to those who did not make the best choices in life. It is about being charitable to those less fortunate, and no one but he can be trusted to be charitable unless the full power and might of the federal government is brought to bear on them. We must be made to be nice, so it goes with Teddy.
And feel free to do whatever vice your heart desires. A man who walked away from a drowning secretary could think no less. That's the Teddy way. That is, of course, unless it doesn't mesh with his beer-goggle view of society. Morals are a virtue Teddy can't abide. If he can't have them, surely no one else really does either.
Again, I'm not usually one for a hit piece, but the author of these quotes sort of begs for it:
"In an era when too many Americans are losing their jobs, or working for less and trying to make ends meet, in close cases Judge Alito has ruled the vast majority of the time against the claims of individual citizens. He has acted instead in favor of the government, large corporations, and other powerful interests."
As opposed to Teddy, who has never been in favor of government over individual citizens or powerful special interests... Hypocrisy, they name is "Beer Funnel Teddy".
"In an era when the White House is abusing power, is excusing and authorizing torture, and is spying on American citizens, I find Judge Alito's support for an all-powerful executive branch to be genuinely troubling.”
At least, as long as the Executive is run by Republicans. Previous Democrat administrations who did the same either didn't meet this criteria with Teddy or perhaps he was on a bender at the time.
“Under the presidents spying program, there are no checks and no balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen infringement on the civil rights and liberties of the American people. Undeterred by the public outcry, the president vows to continue spying on American citizens”.
He must’ve missed Bill Moyers using the same power at the behest of LBJ to order Hoover’s FBI to hunt down dirt on Goldwater’s campaign staffers. Perhaps he also missed a former bouncer turned “Security Director” in the Clinton White House illegally holding hundreds of classified FBI files on prominent Republicans. And maybe news of Clinton’s ordering of the FBI to use ECHELON for domestic spying was overlooked in his rush to get to Happy Hour at O’Feelemup’s Pub that day. Being such a radical means never having to acknowledge what a raging hypocrite you are.
“Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess the proper balance between protecting our liberties and protecting our national security."
No word on whether independent and impartial includes making law up out of whole cloth, discovering laws in emanations of penumbras, or finding the justification in a foreign court’s cracker jack box along with the tin whistle prize. Apparently, those sorts of judges are ok.
And lastly, I consider any man who would leave a woman to drown while he walked away to relative comfort as not a man and certainly one who can no longer claim any moral or ethical high ground in criticizing anyone let alone holding public office. The very fact that the Massachusetts Left has chosen to curse us with his presence for all these years, I think, earns them a special place in Hell. And thus ends my character assassination. I’ll attempt to return to more even-handed debates on the merits of topics in the future.
As I was composing this, I heard the news that Teddy was dredging up a 20 plus year old membership in Concerned Alumni of Princeton for Alito. I'm sorry, next will we learn that he has a dangerous and delusional history of believing in fantasy characters because as a child he was a member of the Mickey Mouse Club? Perhaps what was funnier in all this tragedy was Teddy's own Democratic colleague, Dianne Feinstein, who had to keep coaching Teddy because he was too (senile, drunk, fill in your own word and enjoy the joke) to finish his lefty talking point assault against Alito. Teddy read off an article from CAP's publication that of course was made to sound worse than it was. The article appeared to be attacking affirmative action and the like, but you couldn't really tell that from the way it was read before the Senate. One would think CAP wanted to lynch the minorities and send the women back to the kitchen.
That this magazine article from twenty years ago was spun that way was predictable, albeit DATED. Should we spin Walter Duranty's 1930's era articles on Stalin as the current view of the New York Times? Well, maybe that's a bad example. Anyway, they brought out the old canard of "guilt by association". This was used most effectively by the communists and fascists of a bygone era from Germany to Russia to Cambodia. An easy way to establish guilt where there is none is to take an associated figure, even one only loosely associated to your intended target, and smear the target with the opinion or perceived wrong doing of the associate.
This, if you'd asked your favorite leftist any other day would've been called *gasp* *double gasp* McCarthyism. That's right. Although McCarthyism from Joseph McCarthy, when viewed through a more objective prism, wasn't so much what the Left fondly reminisces as McCarthyism, if you watched Teddy Kennedy assaulting Samuel Alito, you saw what does realistically fit that definition. He made the rest of the rabid Dems look tame by comparison. Something for the Dems to be proud of, wouldn't you say? Make room for Teddy.
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