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| Why Liberals Are Turning on Ted Kennedy |
| 2007-09-06 |
| America's most prominent unindicted drunk driver in a fine demonstration of the "Massachusetts virus" in action. Once upon a time, Ted Kennedy could count on his daily dose of veneration. The right wing hated the Massachusetts Democrat, but progressives honored him as a defender of old-school liberalism. In a remarkable turnaround, liberals are now heaping scorn on the 73-year-old senator. Young audiences boo at his name, and the leftish "Daily Show" on Comedy Central makes fun of him. The source of unhappiness is Kennedy's efforts to kill an offshore wind farm on Nantucket Sound. Cape Wind was to be the first such project in the United States and a source of pride to environmentally minded New Englanders. Polls show 84 percent of Massachusetts residents in favor. But now it appears that America's first offshore wind farm will be near Galveston, Texas. Proposed the month before Sept. 11, 2001, Cape Wind remains in limbo. It's been frustrated at every turn by a handful of yachtsmen, Kennedy included, who don't want to see windmills from their verandas. Many millions have been spent spreading disinformation and smearing the wind farm's supporters. The towers would be at least five miles out and barely visible from shore on the clearest day, but the summer plutocrats resent any intrusion on their waterfront vistas -- and, equally, any challenge to the notion that they control everything. "But don't you realize -- that's where I sail!" may stand as Kennedy's most self-incriminating quote. . . . See also this scathing Greenpeace flash video. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #13 Look, let's be serious, if the damn windfarm can get build who cares about the cost/benefit ratio..... A Kennedy is going to loose his head via Parasailing, gliding or drunken Pier Climbing... NOW THAT'S GOTTA BE WORTH SOMETHING! |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2007-09-06 19:13 |
| #12 Let's face it, he is a huge target. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-06 18:41 |
| #11 will any given wind turbine exceed that value in its operational lifetime? If simply attempting to build them causes Ted Kennedy's fawning syncophants to turn on him and bring him down in an orgy of fratricidal strife, they'll be cheap at twice the price. |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-09-06 17:56 |
| #10 Given the energy needed to manufacture, transport and maintain them, will any given wind turbine exceed that value in its operational lifetime? |
| Posted by: eLarson 2007-09-06 15:54 |
| #9 I don't care. I just want to see em built to piss off Ted Kennedy... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-09-06 13:36 |
| #8 Traveling west I saw lots of windfarms and windmills being erected everywhere. About 1/2 the windmills were not spinning. I assume the wind was too fast or too slow. So based on a non-scientific view out the car window I would say.. %50 duty cycle. This implies the need for geographically (windolgy?) distributed mills and a 2X or 3X over engineering. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-09-06 13:24 |
| #7 Due to variability, wind farms displace only 3-4% electrical generating capacity. The other 96-97% of generating capacity still has to built and spinning, ready to take over at any time. Stupid decisions like this is why windswept Danes pay 2-3 times what Americans pay. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-09-06 11:15 |
| #6 2) Opposing an environmental project: OMG WE WILL OPPOSE YOUR REELECTION! Opposing an enviromental HOAX. Electriacl appliances require constant power and there is no solution to store elctricity efficiently and without massive damage to envirmenet (components in battetries are highly dangerous). The usefulness of wind farms is zero, zilch, nada. Except for lining the pockets of manufacturers and nuturing the wet dreams of the greens. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-09-06 10:56 |
| #5 Why Liberals Are Turning on Ted Kennedy Might have something to do with being an idiot. Nope. That would be a reason to support him. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-09-06 10:52 |
| #4 So, to sum up: 1) Wrecking your car while DWI and then deserting the passenger, leaving her to die: OK! 2) Opposing an environmental project: OMG WE WILL OPPOSE YOUR REELECTION! |
| Posted by: gromky 2007-09-06 10:11 |
| #3 Why Liberals Are Turning on Ted Kennedy Might have something to do with being an idiot. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-09-06 09:42 |
| #2 Doesn't matter. They will continue to vote for him, as it is there religion. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-09-06 09:05 |
| #1 ......But while the waters off Cape Cod have given abundantly to the Kennedys, these same waters have also cruelly taken from them. First came the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, in 1969, when Edward Kennedy seemed to show more concern with keeping his presidential hopes alive than with saving a passenger in his car. Thirty years later (almost to the day), the Kennedys' best prospect for returning to the White House, John F. Kennedy Jr., crashed off Martha's Vineyard at the helm of a plane he was too inexperienced to safely fly -- taking with him his wife and sister-in-law. By this spring, Ted Kennedy had become the most prominent opponent of an offshore wind farm that he might be expected to support -- only this one hits too close to home. As if arranged by fate in a Greek tragedy, the project is proposed for Nantucket Sound, within view of the Kennedy compound, several miles away. Excerpt from an article by Jack Coleman, a former Cape Cod Times political reporter who supports "The Wind Farm." http://www.windfarmersalmanac.com/ |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-09-06 08:04 |