The Kennedy Legacy: Brought To You By the U.S. Taxpayer
I have searched the entire bill and still can’t find any funds set aside for the Kennedy course on how to stay above the law. I suppose that if one can not make history, he might as well buy it with other people’s money. I’m sure there are several parts of this family’s legacy they would rather not have people remember as well. Surely our tax dollars can also pay for private jets for Ted to oversee these improvements as they are implemented.
At the end of the day there is nothing more important Congress can do with our tax dollars than create memorials of themselves, and there is no one more deserving of such an honor than the Kennedy family. Twenty-six percent of the $126 million Massachusetts will receive will go towards honoring America’s scandalous royal family. What better way could your money be used to stimulate the economy? I can’t think of a single one except to give it to a few failing banks with no strings attached to spend on golden parachutes, lavish parties, and retirement packages.
One year ago this week Obama said, “we can no longer accept a process that doles out earmarks based on a member of Congress’ seniority, rather than the merit of the project. We can no longer accept an earmarks process that has become so complicated to navigate that a municipality or non-profit group has to hire high-priced D.C. lobbyists to do it. And we can no longer accept an earmarks process in which many of the projects being funded fail to address the real needs of our country.”
It is good to see that Obama has kept his word to the American people to lead the charge in cutting these high spending traditions in Congress. He has really stood up against the establishment to usher in real change.
The good news is Obama has made history yet again with this legislation making a new record for earmarks. Perhaps next time we can just get the entire budget to be earmarks. Bipartisanship is definitely on the rise. Transparency and responsibility have certainly returned to Washington. I am thankful the American people have chosen such a bold leader to spend us out of this economic mess and tax the crap out of those greedy rich people that own small businesses. We know with Obama that the buck never stops. It is refreshing to see change we can truly believe in.
I have lived in Mass. 14 years and have never seen so many sheeple in one state. These nitwits think the Kennedy’s are the greatest of all time.
Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.
The disconnect between what Obama said in the never-ending presidential campaign and his current actions, and frankly, even his current rhetoric and actions, are only one reason the American people are already losing faith in him. Although some Americans might still believe in “Change” they don’t believe his policies are the right prescriptions for America. And It is beyond me how the Kennedy’s can hold such a grasp on so many Americans even when fed a line of bs by the so-called MSM that ol’ Teddy is the “lion of the Senate” yada yada yada …. from getting caught cheating at Harvard to his prison-worthy behavior at Chappaquiddick, this man is an embarrassment to the people of Mass. Obama is paying back campaign endorsements and favors with taxpayers monies, mine actually, and I think he and his fellow Dems need to be voted out of office.
What a shame this money was not available sooner and they might have earmarked some for the Kennedy Institute for Public Speaking. The curriculum could include:
- How to speak without a teleprompter
- How to recover when a teleprompter stops working (or how not to keep reading)
- How to break the “you know”, “uh” and “um” habit
- How to present a gift to a visiting dignitary, and
- Shriver Seminar on the value of the Special Olympics
And I sure hope there is enough change left over to offer scholarships to family and close friends.
Thank God I’m out of that state. After moving back there in 2005, it took 6 months to get my drivers licence. 12 forms of identification (they wouldn’t accept a birth certificate). And 2 more months to get the car through emissions – finally gave up on that one because although it had passed on the first try in my previous state of residence, no dice in Mass. Finally found one of the many inspection garages which cater to those in my unfortunate position: paid ‘em $100 and they slapped an inspection sticker on the car faster than you can say “corruption”.
As an American with Irish heritage that grew up in democratic Chicago, I was surrounded by family members that absolutely adored anything Kennedy. I found it irritating. As a nine year old, something about Jack just didn’t sit right with me. Now fifty-five and having watched so much of the country ignore the failings and celebrate the legend of Jack, Bobby and Ted (not to mention their criminal father), I’m no longer astounded. BHO was legitimized by Caroline (nee)Kennedy and her illustrious uncle Ted when they embraced a ‘new Camelot.’ With so many Americans uncomfortable with the lack of American royalty, with BHO having been ‘crowned’ as Kennedy successor, why the surprise that we’ll use millions of Fed created dollars to celebrate socialism, criminality and idiocy? Maybe Karl Marx can get a wing . . .
Maybe Mass.should re-name one of its prisons after Ted.After all, if his name wasn`t Kennedy that`s where he might still be after the Mary Jo Kopechne killing.
Perhaps some of the earmark pork should be used to recreate the infamous pond into Chappaquiddick Memorial Skating Rink, as a memorial to a family that has skated American justice for 100 years.
#6 Terry:
“Now fifty-five and having watched so much of the country ignore the failings and celebrate the legend of Jack, Bobby and Ted (not to mention their criminal father), I’m no longer astounded.”
Ole Bootlegger Joe…he was a smart one.
Apocryphal Kennedy legend:
Joe took his rum-running profits, (which still exist today in the guise of Seagram’s distilled spirits, btw), and during the Depression bought up troubled mortgages throughout the Boston area, keeping the working-class Irish-American community there in their homes.
Took the rest of his money and invested it out in Hollywood, getting in on the ground floor of what would become the Mainstream Media.
Not to take anything away from JFK’s wartime service, but getting your PT boat run over by a Jap destroyer is very much akin to getting your Porsche creamed by a municipal garbage truck…had JFK NOT been the son of the US Ambassador to the UK, I think he might have been court-martialed…or at the least been dressed down in a Naval board of inquiry, rather than have been decorated.
So…come the late 1940′s, when Joe is looking to manufacture the Kennedy Legacy, all the pieces are in place…the war hero son, the fawning media, and back to the Southies in the old neigborhoods, whose mortgages he still holds:
“Say, Seamus…you wouldn’t MIND if I erected a ‘Kennedy for Senate’ sign in your front yard, would ya?”.
Like I said, Joe was one clever lad.
2. Craig wrote-
“Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.”
Agreed.
The Kennedy Memorial BJ Bridge….
Teddy Kennedy The “Lyin’ of the Senate” is a physical and moral coward, in addition to being a hypocrite and a drunk. How the people of Massachusetts keep reelecting says something about the intelligence level of that electorate. He’s a big fat disgrace,nothing less.
The Kennedy clan was really the first episode of American Idol. Does anyone understand why we keep electing them?
..perhaps, like the AIG executives forgoing their bonuses, perhaps Ted Kennedy could give something up in return for this legacy enhancement like, say, the marketing rights to his line of snorkels.
I grew up in Massachusetts and left there, never to return as a resident, at age 25. The Kennedy’s always disgusted me.
Like all aristocrats, they do not expect to live with the rules they have imposed on the peasantry. When Rose Kennedy passed away, we were all surprised to discover she was a Florida resident and not subject to MA’s draconian inheritance taxes and rules (the rules we are still dealing with for my distinctly middle class late in-laws).
A quick internet search will also reveal that much of the Kennedy trust money has made its way offshore and will not be a source of revenue for his edifices.
Lot’s of truth here folks.
To this day I still can`t figure out the mystique of the `Kennedy presidency`. What was the big deal? He didn`t move heaven and earth. Didn`t solve any problems but he did sleep around alot and p*ssed off somebody enough that they killed him.
Do you realize JFK was only President 5 months longer than Gerald Ford? It`s true. Look it up.
Not much of a presidential legacy…….
Growing up, ‘Kennedy’ was a swear word in my house.
Hypocrites personified.
MARK TWAIN HAD IT RIGHT ABOUT DIAPERS
There is no value in career politicians.
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/03/politicians-are-to-often-like-diapers.html
Slogan on a T-Shirt:YOUR MOTHER DATES KENNEDYS! This is a great way to insult liberals!
Is “kennedy”Gaelic for “syphillis”?
You can put lace curtains on a shanty but its occupants will still be Kennedys.
I would like to think that in 2010 (if we make it that far) we can derail the Democrat/Marxist express train. Fortunately, or unfortunately, Obama has already shown his hand, when he (unconstitutionally) took responsibility for the census into the White House. Now that the Obamatrons control all the power cables, it’s going to be very difficult for civilization to stage a comeback.
Unless … maybe … a large number of cemetary residents vote Republican.
There’s a wonderful statue in Brownhills in the UK that I’m sure could provide inspiration for the Kennedy memorials:
http://trackacrat.com/category/ted-kennedy/
I was nine years old when JFK was assassinated. School was let out early, teachers were crying, my mother balled for days, while crying out “those sons of bitchin republicans,” and “this is that god damn Goldwater’s fault.” I didn’t get it then, and I don’t get it now. Not the assissination itself, as killing is immoral, but the whole “Kennedy experience” was and is beyond me.
Both my parents were romanced by FDR, the Kennedy’s, Johnson… every liberal “progressive” whose intent is to destroy free enterprise,and keep democrats in power. To this day, my father (age 86) is still a democrat, even though his new wife is a republican. Based on my father’s life, I am still to this day perplexed by how he could be duped by left-wing extremists. His kids, my sisters and me are either conservatives,republicans or libertarian. We understand the value of liberty. We know the history of Marxism, economically and culturally, yet this man who always preached personal responibility is still on board with government being “the solution.” Perhaps my parents affinity for the democrat machine is akin to Jews who side with Arab nations, and Jews who subscribe to socialism/communism. Both have been great mysteries throughout my life, without sound reasoning as to why.
#24 JD: I take your point,but I wonder if this could effectively memorialize this demagoguic scoundrel. At least that socialist realist montrosity represents an actual worker,whereas Kennedy has never done a day’s work in his life;OK:he’s provided lots of jobs in VD clinics and distilleries,but that’s hardly a conventional definition of work.Maybe a car submerged in a pool and the statue of the drowned Mary Jo Kopechne inside,would better represent the true nature of the Kennedy legacy. Regards!