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2010-02-06 Home Front: Politix

Howie Carr
To all of you Kennedy groupies out there, go find yourself a grief counselor.

Call the Samaritans. As the sign on the Sagamore bridge says, suicide is not the answer.

This morning, for the first time since January 1953, there is neither a Kennedy nor a Kennedy-family retainer "representing" Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate.

Senator John F. Kerry considers himself a Kennedy-by-marriage -- as I recall his mother was related to Jacqueline Kennedy (nee' Bouvier).

The moonbats are really in mourning now. This was worse than finding out yesterday that their Priuses may be ... unsafe at any speed.

To all you grief-stricken blow-in drifters on Morrissey Boulevard, go home to New York, mix up a pitcher of brandy Alexanders and put some Judy Garland on the stereo. Do not despair - after all, you still have Barney Frank.

Maybe someday you'll have a new generation of Kennedys to cover up for, to point out how they are turning their lives around after (fill in the blank) a cheating scandal, a drug scandal, a rape accusation, a blonde in the pond, an overturned Jeep on Nantucket, an extramarital affair with a polo player, a drug overdose, a waitress sandwich . . .

Not only that, but yesterday we learned that the last of them in Congress, Patrick "Patches" Kennedy of Rhode Island could be knocked out of office. A new WPRI-TV poll showed him with low 35 percent approval rating, and 62 percent disapproval.

Yesterday was Camelot Emancipation Day. For taxpayers, it was Christmas and the Super Bowl rolled into one.

But before we shout "last call" for the final time, let's look back at a few of the family's greatest hits.

Marilyn Monroe, Mary Jo Kopechne and the woman with the blue dot.

Not bothering to learn the names of any other politicians, from Barack Obama ("Why we ask Osama bin - Obama") to Marty Meehan ("my dear friend Andy Meehan") to Martha "Marsha" Coakley.

Patches Kennedy talking about "making mends meet," and "the fundamental process of due process" and his description of how he became what he is today: "I myself have educated myself."

Ted Kennedy, explaining in 1991 how he was informed that a rape charge was about to be filed against his nephew: "There's some additional something going on here, vaguely, and it's going to involve some kind of uh, sexual harassment on Willie on that because I was not ever, ever was told the Palm Beach police wanted to speak to me about an alleged incident of Willie Smith raping some girl."

"Do you know who I am?"

Joe Kennedy setting one of his sons on fire with illegal fireworks.

So many disasters, so little time. However will we survive here without them?

Posted by Fred 2010-02-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Oh, it is Prius. I always thought it the name of the car was Pious.

Posted by twobyfour 2010-02-06 01:57|| 2010-02-06 01:57|| Front Page Top

#2 The Kennedys are a clan which gained its general sense of entitlement courtesy of hiring the right publicists and writers eager for fame on the coattails of the subject they praised.

The Chinese have a proverb: Wealth does not pass three generations, so the Kennedys are on their last leg. My guess is that the old man wanted to create a dynasty that could transcend the wealth thing using politics and media, but the wealth thing eventually wins out every time.

Right now the third generation of Kennedys have a choice, and at least they do have a choice: They can go out of the public memory with dignity you'd expect of a family deserving of the public's respect and adoration, or it can be loud and painful.

They have chosen the second path, the painful way.

Posted by badanov 2010-02-06 07:18|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-02-06 07:18|| Front Page Top

#3 The Adams had a better run. Then again, there was less concentrated power to screw things up for everyone else back then.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-06 07:31|| 2010-02-06 07:31|| Front Page Top

#4 And the Adamses had real ability, too.
I've always appreciated J.P. O'Rourke's description of the Kennedys as "political sewer trout who managed to swim upstream."

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2010-02-06 08:58|| http://www.celiahayes.com 2010-02-06 08:58|| Front Page Top

#5 O'Rourke's description of the Kennedys as "political sewer trout who managed to swim upstream."

Here son, put this one on the stringer. I LIKE IT!

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-06 09:05|| 2010-02-06 09:05|| Front Page Top

#6 "Oh, it is Prius. I always thought it the name of the car was Pious."

It's not, 2X4? ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-02-06 11:35|| 2010-02-06 11:35|| Front Page Top

#7 And somhow overlooked is that little pilot error thingie where one of the CHOSEN decided that the FAA's IFR ratings only applied to the little people and after he crashed, we spent how much money and the MSM had 24/7 non stop recovery operations coverage over this stupid person trick?
At least he took himself out of the gene pool.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2010-02-06 12:26|| 2010-02-06 12:26|| Front Page Top

#8 "Oh, it is Prius. I always thought it the name of the car was Pious."

it's pronounced prEus, you know, like Previous.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-02-06 19:21|| 2010-02-06 19:21|| Front Page Top

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