Utopia Talk / Politics / Ted Kennedy: Hypocritical POS to the end

Rugian Member	Wed Aug 26 00:56:45 I remember reading just earlier today that Ted Kennedy (who is hopefully burning in hell by now, ROFL) sent a note to the governor/legislature asking the Commonwealth to change state laws which would allow governor Deval Negro Patrick to appoint a replacement Senator in the event that good ol' Ted stepped down, so that the Democrats would have full representation in the Senate. All well and good, except that Massachusetts USED to allow governors to fill vacant Senate seats with appointees. This changed in 2004, when the Democrats changed state law to prevent Mitt Romney from appointing someone to John Kerry's seat in the event he won the presidency. They stripped the governor of his appointment rights and now full elections are mandated. Stupid fucking Kennedy and Democrats. The glories of a one party state. Every politician in the Commonwealth should go to P-town and choke to death on a cock.
Rugian Member	Wed Aug 26 00:58:33 And the sad thing is, the people in Mass take blatant hypocritical shit like this easily. Fair laws? Fuck that, the Party is all that matters. Easily led sheep. Fucking faggots.
Hood Member	Wed Aug 26 01:00:07 move.
Y2A Member	Wed Aug 26 01:01:51 would rather live in massachusetts then in any "red state". and that is coming from a northern nj yankees fan.
Rugian Member	Wed Aug 26 01:02:49 Yeah, I can just imagine how horrible it would be for a welfare-leeching wetback like yourself to live in a state that expects you to make a living on your own.
Rugian Member	Wed Aug 26 01:04:02 And by the way, they're not red states, they're blue states. Looking at my old 2000 political maps confirms this. Stop picking up every fucking political buzzword that the media decides to run with.
Y2A Member	Wed Aug 26 01:05:35 take that blue = right, red = left, shit to back to europe.
Y2A Member	Wed Aug 26 01:06:55 seriously son u would rather live in bumfuck alabama then in mass!
Rugian Member	Wed Aug 26 01:08:29 I'll do that the moment you put down the Noam Chomsky book, get the Democratic Party's cock out of your mouth and move your illegal ass back to Mexico.
Rugian Member	Wed Aug 26 01:10:06 Mass is good for two things: college whores (if you're straight) and P-town buttpirates (if you're not). The taxes are high and increasing, the public transportation system is a debt-ridden laughingstock, and the cost of living is higher than most states.
Rugian Member	Wed Aug 26 01:11:12 Now, if you're asking whether I would live in ALABAMA, well fuck no, it's hot as hell down in the South.
Rugian Member	Wed Aug 26 01:14:40 Also, mandatory health care has shot costs UP, not down. GG Romney.
CrownRoyal Member	Wed Aug 26 01:15:39 NY Times Editorial Replacing Senator Kennedy August 24, 2009 Senator Edward M. Kennedy has asked the Massachusetts Legislature to change state law to let the governor, currently a fellow Democrat, fill vacant Senate seats. Abandoning the current system, in which voters choose, would be undemocratic, even at the request of such a respected lawmaker. With the health care battle heating up in Washington, every senator's vote is critical. It is not hard to imagine that Mr. Kennedy, who has made national health care a high priority, wants to make sure Democrats will not lose a vote if he is unable to keep serving because of his terminal brain cancer. Under current law, an empty Senate seat can be filled only by special election, which could leave the seat open for more than five months. Massachusetts governors used to fill Senate vacancies. But in 2004, the Democratic majority in the State Legislature changed the law to require a special election. The leaders were concerned that if Senator John Kerry was elected president, Gov. Mitt Romney would appoint a fellow Republican. To change back now would look like an unseemly amount of partisanship in setting the rules for who goes to Congress. Special elections put the power where it should be in a democracy - with the people. Too many senators today are selected in elections of one, with the governor casting the only vote. New York just went through this in filling Hillary Clinton's seat, Delaware in filling Joe Biden's seat, and Illinois in the disastrous process of filling Barack Obama's seat, which contributed to the impeachment of Gov. Rod Blagojevich. According to FairVote, a voting-rights group, if and when the governors of Florida and Texas fill impending vacancies in those states, almost 27 percent of the population will be represented by at least one unelected senator. Once someone is appointed, he or she has an enormous leg up in the next election. The best solution would be to amend the Constitution to require that all Senate vacancies be filled by election. Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, has a proposal, which has bipartisan support, to do that. To his credit, Mr. Kennedy has suggested that the Massachusetts governor should appoint only someone who makes a personal commitment not to be a candidate in the special election. That would reduce the antidemocratic impact of the appointment, but it would not eliminate it. It might be possible for Massachusetts to shorten the campaign, so a new senator could be elected more quickly. But states should be moving away from gubernatorial appointment of senators, not toward it. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/opinion/25tue2.html?_r=1
Rugian Member	Wed Aug 26 01:23:39 Not the editorial I saw, but it covers all the major factual points.
Eikeys Ghost Sports Mod	Wed Aug 26 11:13:13 I'd much rather live in a red state, than these shithole blue states. Either they are taxed like Euros, or poor as fuck (MI, CA, etc.) But overall Both of these options are less than taking a bullet in the brain.
MrPresident07 Member	Wed Aug 26 11:22:48 ^LOL!
Chen Member	Wed Aug 26 15:24:32 I can guarantee that somehow we're going to get screwed out of our chance to vote for a replacement. Not like it will matter because another Democrat will take his place in this 1 party shithole. It's hilarious that on all the 24 hour news channels they say this man had integrity and worked across the aisle. The fact of the matter is that his whole life all he ever did was try to silence the opposition and get his way. A few instances he was correct (civil rights and the war in Iraq), but more often he was just interested in fucking over the taxpayers by increasing taxes. Not to mention he was for almost every spending measure. He was for virtually every program put out by the Democrats and nothing put out by Republicans. I really hope this hack is rotting in hell for fucking over my state and my country.
PhunkyPhishStyle Member	Thu Aug 27 15:52:55 http://i25...o-of-chappaquiddick-speaks.jpg
State Department Member	Thu Aug 27 18:25:04 "Senator, you were expelled from Harvard for cheating, then you left a woman to drown in your car at Chappaquiddick. What makes you think you have what it takes to be President?" That was the opening question of an interview with the late Senator Edward Kennedy during his unsuccessful bid to secure the Democratic nomination for the US presidency. It might equally now serve as an obituary. The answer to that embarrassing question, of course, can be given in one word: entitlement. The Kennedy dynasty has long assumed a divine right to high office and privilege that accords ill with the spirit of the American constitution. We saw it yet again, earlier this year, with the attempt to shoo-in the totally inexperienced Caroline Kennedy as successor to Hillary Clinton representing New York in the Senate. It failed: the Kennedy clan, as used to be said of effete Chinese dynasties, has exhausted the mandate of heaven. Now that Edward Kennedy has died, the liberal establishment and its media acolytes have the onions in the handkerchiefs to orchestrate a show of grief over the loss of a "great leader", as Barack Obama ludicrously termed this discredited playboy. No doubt the modernist Catholic Church in America will bury this indefatigable proponent of federally funded abortion with full honours. Despite his having led a life of extravagant degeneracy, the liberal "Catholic" caucus of the Pelosi/Biden orientation will fervently claim him as their own. In Britain, Kennedy will be remembered for his championing of IRA terror, on the same knee-jerk anti-British principles that inspired his father, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, to support Hitler. Yet Kennedy was awarded an honorary knighthood, just as America gave him its Presidential Medal of Freedom. What for? For being a Kennedy, of course. The Kennedy humbug was incisively deflated by a Republican bumper sticker that memorably claimed: "More people were killed at Chappaquiddick than at Three Mile Island". Another succinctly said: "No one drowned at Watergate". What is it that motivates people in so-called democratic societies to create reverential myths around hollow idols with feet of clay? America is the one country on earth where only the rich are socialists. That East Coast tribe will now indulge in false hero worship and wild hyperbole about a man who, if his surname had been anything other than Kennedy, would have provoked widespread distaste and social ostracism. This time, the liberal elite is burying not just an individual but the political aspirations of a dynasty whose objectives were incompatible with the best interests of America. http://blo...ar-bumper-sticker-says-it-all/
Hot Rod Member	Thu Aug 27 18:45:39 "It might equally now serve as an obituary." Well you can bet your bippy that it will not come up in the eulogy. That will be give by President Obama. Whatever happened to best friends or relatives giving the eulogy?
Rugian Member	Thu Aug 27 18:47:37 When the President of the United States offers to give the eulogy of someone, you generally allow him to do that shit. Dumbass.
hoER Member	Thu Aug 27 18:48:10 Errr...most people, including you, would consider it a great honor to thave their eulogy given by the POTUS...lol
hoER Member	Thu Aug 27 18:48:50 Or, as rugian put it somewhat mote succinctly.
hoER Member	Thu Aug 27 18:49:58 Since we're on the subject anyway, he's such a transparent, hypocritical fucking dumbass though, isnt he? lol
Rugian Member	Thu Aug 27 18:52:17 It's almost painful to watch him to grasp for every possible thing he can use to try and knock Obama down a notch.
Hot Rod Member	Thu Aug 27 18:53:08 Thast's what we keep telling you about Obama, but this is the first tim you admitted it.
hoER Member	Thu Aug 27 18:59:55 It gets cringeworthy frequently. He must have been absolutely enraged during the Bush years to become so infatuated with somehow getting revenge through nitpicking everything from Michelles nailpolish to Obamas burger garnish every minute of his waking hours. It reminds me of the insanity of an aging Timothy McVeigh from a wheelchair.
Pissflaps McGee32052 Member	Sun Feb 05 00:45:31 we talk took green sea week far ?
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