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Ted Kennedy is an idiot
Published on January 10, 2006 By
Island Dog
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I'm just listening to the Alito hearings, and Ted Kennedy is just an idiot.
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singrdave
on Jan 10, 2006
Any specifics, or just a general observation?
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Chaos Manager
on Jan 10, 2006
Uhm ... hasn't that fact (T. Kennedy == idiot) been accepted as Gospel truth for a (large) number of years now?
Was it something specific in his questions or was it just general reinforcement of his idiocy?
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Daiwa
on Jan 10, 2006
An evil idiot to boot. I can only assume that the Kennedy family has so much of Massachusetts beholden to them - there is no other explanation for his re-election over the years.
Cheers,
Daiwa
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Island Dog
on Jan 10, 2006
Any specifics, or just a general observation?
Nothing too specific. I just heard him complaining about the "imperialist President", and the usual bs rhetoric from liberals.
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stevendedalus
on Jan 11, 2006
You'r a good distance from being convincing.
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ParaTed2k
on Jan 11, 2006
From the bottom of the Chappaquiddik to the topped off shot glass, Mary Jo Kopechne would probably agree.
Of all the senators on the committee, Kennedy is definitely the most clueless. His questions were the most irrelevant, and I doubt he even understood what he was asking...
I wondered when he was going to get around to actually asking a question (but that was true of most of the senators).
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Island Dog
on Jan 11, 2006
Kennedy (D-Mass.) asked further hostile questions on CAP -- the Princeton University concerned alumni organization that, among other things, opposed co-education at the university. Kennedy said he did not think Alito's responses to the committee on CAP "add up." Kennedy proposed issuing a subpoena to the owner of the organization's records and go into executive session to do so.
Specter reacted angrily, asking why Kennedy had brought this up in public as opposed to consulting with Specter on it in advance. Kennedy claimed he sent Specter a letter. Specter, angrily, said he never got one.
"If you're going to rule it [a subpoena] out of order, I want to have a vote on that," Kennedy said.
"I take umbrage at you telling me what I received," Specter said, with growing anger.
Kennedy: "I would appeal the ruling of the chair."
Specter: "There's been no ruling of the chair."
Kennedy said he was moving for an executive session and "we're gonna have votes of this committee again and again and again" until Specter goes along.
Specter: "I'm not going to have you run this committee," Specter said. "I will consider it in due course."
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davad70
on Jan 11, 2006
Specter is going to be eating some crow courtesy of the guy you think is an idiot. Maybe Specter, like you thought he was an idiot. It appears, at least in this case, that Specter is the idiot.
Specter admits he discussed Kennedy’s letter in a phone call with his Chief-of-Staff. He rejected the request then but said if it was really important Kennedy should have mentioned it to him at the gym. (Kennedy explained he hasn’t been to the gym since before Christmas.) Specter has now agreed to get the records.
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ParaTed2k
on Jan 11, 2006
So what does any of that have to do with Judge Alito's fitness for the Supreme Court? If membership in a fraternity is a disqualifying detail then their would be very few college grads left for any office.
Kennedy is a murdering waste of human flesh whose only in office because of a family name and pity votes on the coat tails of a couple of dead brothers. His greatest accomplishment is staying out of jail.
The letters are a pathetic ruse that he only brings up because he has absolutely nothing better to do with his pampered, do nothing, know nothing life.
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davad70
on Jan 11, 2006
So what does any of that have to do with Judge Alito's fitness for the Supreme Court? If membership in a fraternity is a disqualifying detail then their would be very few college grads left for any office.
I didn't say it had anything to do with his "fitness" for the Supreme Court. The only way I could see it having any legitimate effect on the hearings would be if the documents showed some indication that Alito was actively involved in the group to which he stated he only faintly remembers joining. It could show that he has some integrity issues if it were to come out that he misled the committee about his involvement, combined with the fact that he failed to recuse himself from Vanguard cases which he testifed he would, but chose not to.
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drmiler
on Jan 12, 2006
Specter is going to be eating some crow courtesy of the guy you think is an idiot. Maybe Specter, like you thought he was an idiot. It appears, at least in this case, that Specter is the idiot.
I think you'll find that Kennedy is going to be the idiot! You seem to forget, "Kennedy" is "not" in charge of the hearings. Specter is.
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davad70
on Jan 12, 2006
You seem to forget, "Kennedy" is "not" in charge of the hearings. Specter is.
What does the fact that Specter is the chairman have to do with this? I haven't forgotten that fact, but it's irrelevent to the issue in question. Specter became very belligerent on the record that he had never received the letter from Kennedy. Kennedy has introduced evidence into the record that Specter in fact did receive the letter. Kennedy has a response to his letter from Specter's office. Specter has since admitted that he did receive the letter. As I said above,
in this case
(The Case of the Missing Letter
), Specter has been shown to be the idiot.
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davad70
on Jan 12, 2006
I should also add that in general, I have considerable respect for Arlen Specter, he just put his foot in his mouth badly this time.
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MythicalMino
on Jan 12, 2006
I didn't say it had anything to do with his "fitness" for the Supreme Court. The only way I could see it having any legitimate effect on the hearings would be if the documents showed some indication that Alito was actively involved in the group to which he stated he only faintly remembers joining. It could show that he has some integrity issues if it were to come out that he misled the committee about his involvement, combined with the fact that he failed to recuse himself from Vanguard cases which he testifed he would, but chose not to.
and Judge Alito couldn't change since 30 years ago....John Kerry "did"
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davad70
on Jan 12, 2006
and Judge Alito couldn't change since 30 years ago....John Kerry "did"
I don't understand your point. Could you please explain.
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