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2010-02-05 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Beavis 2010-02-05 12:52|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 time for the Kennedy's to go away

Posted by 746 2010-02-05 14:01|| 2010-02-05 14:01|| Front Page Top

#2 As an aside, though it is a closely guarded secret, the Kennedy fortune has been in serious decline, because Old Joe Kennedy was the only one of the family who was better at making it than spending it.

Only for about the last 10-15 years, did Teddy, who controlled the purse strings, start cutting back on the 30-60 clan members spending, and spinning off some of them entirely.

In 1998, they sold off the Merchandise Mart, which was their big cash cow, for about half a billion, then probably lost a lot of money in the crash of 2000, and even more with the 2008 market drop.

By now, some estimates put them as low as only $30m to $100m, though $300m is a more reasonable estimate. The big question is who holds the purse now, as the younger Kennedys are even worse losers than Teddy.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-02-05 15:00|| 2010-02-05 15:00|| Front Page Top

#3 time for the Kennedy's to go away

Can the Clintons be next. Please.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2010-02-05 15:08|| 2010-02-05 15:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Keep digging, Patrick...

Kennedy (D-R.I.) told The Hills Blog Briefing Room yesterday, Browns whole candidacy was shown to be a joke today when he was sworn in early in order to cast his first vote as an objection to Obamas appointment to the NLRB.

The son of former U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, whose seat Brown is now filling, added that the newly confirmed GOP senator is a key vote against the nomination of union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

This is where he shows that when they need him, hes in the tank for the Republicans, Kennedy is quoted as saying.

Brown has denied any hidden agenda in moving up his swearing-in from Feb. 11 to yesterday afternoon.

Camelot's dead, lightweight. Daddy's not around to pull your sorry, useless ass out of the fire anymore. Your big decisions in your next career will probably be "paper or plastic".

Posted by tu3031 2010-02-05 15:18|| 2010-02-05 15:18|| Front Page Top

#5 he's in the tank for the Republicans

Sow what if he is? At least he's not in the tank for the Socialists and Communists like you and your dear departed...

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-02-05 16:11|| 2010-02-05 16:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Old Joe Kennedy was the only one of the family who was better at making it than spending it.

Which means they're major failures as professional politicians as well.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-05 21:49|| 2010-02-05 21:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Give Patches a Vicodin, a Scotch, and the car keys. He'll be out of our hair for 3-4 months or so

Posted by Frank G 2010-02-05 22:04|| 2010-02-05 22:04|| Front Page Top

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