In the words of Obama Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, "You never want a good corpse to go to waste."
Shades of Paul Wellstone. It looks as if the Democrats are going to attempt to revive government-run health care by naming it after Ted Kennedy and adopting the battle cry, "Let's win one for Ted!"
But the "Dead Ted Health Care Plan" is still government-run health care, and I doubt the town hall protesters will be moved simply because it's named after the biggest reprobate and embarrassment in the history of American politics... Even if he was the brother of a former popular president.
I have a better idea. If you want to name a socialist program after Ted, why not create government-run car insurance? Try this on:
KennedyCollision
This is a far more appropriate and fitting monument to the hero of Chappaquiddick.
After a day of sailing and heavy drinking, Kennedy drove his black Oldsmobile sedan off a small wooden bridge into Poucho Pond, trapping (Mary Jo) Kopechne in seven feet of water.
The second-term senator waited nearly 10 hours to report the accident and offered virtually no explanation other than he "panicked."
But during those 10 hours this "panicked senator" managed to change into his Regatta-worthy duds and have several light-hearted yuck-it-up conversations with people on the island.
Even those who had faith in the senator worried about his ability to handle a crisis. Friends testified in an inquest that after the accident a confused and crying Kennedy, trying to blame the accident on others begged, "What am I going to do, what can I do?"
Americans were horrified when they learned that rescue workers found her body in the well of the back seat with her head held up, perhaps indicating that she had been alive for some time breathing in an air pocket.
Ironically, in 1988 at the Democrat National Convention, Ted gave his famous "Where was George" speech on the 19th anniversary of the night Mary Jo Kopechne was suffocating in an Oldsmobile foot well wondering, "Where is Teddy?"
Within five days of the accident, Kennedy's lawyers arranged for him to plead guilty to leaving the scene of the accident involving personal injury with a two-month suspended sentence and one-year probation.
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This is such a generational thing. I have lots of young liberal Facebook friends - people my kids grew up with - and they view Ted Kennedy an straight out liberal hero and their hero-worship juices are really flowing over his death. The Chappaquiddik incident happened in 1969 and young people have no consciousness of it. I never think of Ted Kennedy without thinking of Mary Jo Kopechne. It's not that I'm unforgiving...but to me it was just a character defining moment in his life and completely nullified any credibility for me. I could never get past it for two reasons. 1. Alcohol related scandals accompanied him throughout his public life until close to the end. 2. He was 37 stinkin' years old when it happened - not a young and unaccountable kid. It was disgustingly sleazy. He had a lot to feel guilty about so he made a good liberal. I really do hope he drew near to Jesus in the end and that his sins are covered by His blood.
Yep, a liberal hero indeed, given the immoralists on the left. This is from a long article in the Gentleman's Quarterly in 1990 exposing some of the Senators' licentious behavior: "In December 1985, just before he announced he would run for president in 1988, Kennedy allegedly manhandled a pretty young woman employed as a Brasserie waitress. The woman, Carla Gaviglio, declined to be quoted in this article, but says the following account, a similar version of which first appeared in Penthouse last year, is full and accurate: It is after midnight and Kennedy and Dodd are just finishing up a long dinner in a private room on the first floor of the restaurant’s annex. They are drunk. Their dates, two very young blondes, leave the table to go to the bathroom. (The dates are drunk, too. 'They’d always get their girls very, very drunk,' says a former Brasserie waitress.) Betty Loh, who served the foursome, also leaves the room. Raymond Campet, the co-owner of La Brasserie, tells Gaviglio the senators want to see her.
"As Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles. Several glasses and a crystal candlestick are broken. Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd’s lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair. As he is doing this, Loh enters the room. She and Gaviglio both scream, drawing one or two dishwashers. Startled, Kennedy leaps up. He laughs. Bruised, shaken and angry over what she considered a sexual assault, Gaviglio runs from the room. Kennedy, Dodd and their dates leave shortly thereafter, following a friendly argument between the senators over the check."
Libs love Kennedy & give him a pass for one reason: He used the government to take money from people that work and give it to people that don't.
Again, I am not about to elevate this guy to sainthood.
As far as his past goes - I think of King David, Bathsheba, and Uriah. King David was not a young teenagers or in his twenties. Yet, he committed adultery and murder. He repented. It cost him his son.
As far as his liberalism - I cannot tell you how many churches I've sat in and heard them teach the very things that Ted Kennedy championed. So many churches embrace gay rights, socialism, etc. If the churches aren't teaching holiness and righteousness, then how can we hold our public servants more accountable than they?
We can only let our own voices be heard to those who are elected to represent us. Sometimes that is enough to bring about a change in direction toward freedom instead of captivity by government.
Alas, there is a difference between repentance and unrepentance.
ChuckL: From everything I know about Chappiquiddick, Ted DID repent. People kept hounding him about it, of course. After awhile, you either let it beat you up and never receive forgiveness from Father G-d; or you go on.
There are churches that teach abortion is acceptable, gay ministers are ok, and we all need to just ignore our differences in who we worship. If such churches do so, no wonder people are confused!
It's hard for me to judge, once one is no longer on this earth, as the Lord is the only one who knows the hearts, thoughts, and struggles of others.
I pray for all to come to understand what is right, good, holy and what is wrong, bad, and evil.
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