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2009-08-31 Home Front: Politix

Hatch, Dodd back Vicki Kennedy appointment

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Posted by Steve White 2009-08-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 So the Mormon Hatch is a buddy of Teds?
Drinking, cocaine and wenching one?
Something doesn't compute here....

Dodd I can see ...

Posted by 3dc 2009-08-31 01:25|| 2009-08-31 01:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Oligarchy?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-08-31 04:34|| 2009-08-31 04:34|| Front Page Top

#3 She's a very brilliant lawyer.

A bug, not a feature.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-31 07:27|| 2009-08-31 07:27|| Front Page Top

#4 IMHO the country would be better off with less Kennedy's in political office.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-08-31 08:48|| 2009-08-31 08:48|| Front Page Top

#5 This is from the Onion, right? Please?

Posted by Chunky Ebbamble5227 2009-08-31 11:18|| 2009-08-31 11:18|| Front Page Top

#6 So one Massachussetts senate seat is hereditary.

Posted by DoDo 2009-08-31 11:45|| 2009-08-31 11:45|| Front Page Top

#7 IMHO the country would be better off with less Kennedy's ~~in political office~~.

Fixed it.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-08-31 12:43|| 2009-08-31 12:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe they should make Ted 'Great Leader' and his wife/son successor 'Dear Leader'....

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-08-31 13:08|| 2009-08-31 13:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Hatch and Dodd also requested a name change to Grand Duchy of Massachusetts.

Posted by ed 2009-08-31 13:32|| 2009-08-31 13:32|| Front Page Top

#10 In addition to Dodo's comment, it begs the question, when did the Mass. Senate become the House of Lords? Wasn't this the kind of crap that our forefathers were trying to prevent when they came up with the model of government we have today?

There was some talk about getting rid of hereditary seating in the House of Lords in England. This story was from 6/12/2009 Brown to end self-regulation, target Lords

John Adams must be spinning in his coffin in Quincy.

Posted by Big Glerong4521 2009-08-31 13:58|| 2009-08-31 13:58|| Front Page Top

#11 The Kennedys got stuff for Massachusetts every since JFK was elected to the senate, plus the prestige of having their very own "royal family". The younger Kennedys will not be able to deliver in the same way because they haven't the seniority. Nor, by all accounts, do they have the charisma to carry off the very idea of being royalty. Certainly Senator John F. Kerry has done nothing for his voters, either in terms of prestige -- beyond losing the 2004 presidential race -- or in terms of delivering goodies, and it isn't likely he has the ability to start doing so now that his cousin has left the scene.

With luck the next decade will see the fading of the Kennedys from public politics.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-08-31 14:48|| 2009-08-31 14:48|| Front Page Top

#12 Certainly Senator John F. Kerry has done nothing for his voters, either in terms of prestige -- beyond losing the 2004 presidential race

Losing the 2004 Presidential race is certainly one of John Kerry's most notable achievements, but we should also honor him for the snark and political ridicule he has inspired - his magic hat, his search for Marlon Brando up around the Cambodian border, "HALP US JON CARRY - WE R STUCK HERE IN IRAK" and, of course,the savage war wounds for which he was awarded the Purple Heart, but never needed to be hospitalized.

Posted by SteveS 2009-08-31 17:26|| 2009-08-31 17:26|| Front Page Top

#13 @#9 hehehe.

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-08-31 17:33|| 2009-08-31 17:33|| Front Page Top

#14 3dc, I take it you have never heard the saying about fishing with Mormons then?

(If you are going fishing with two Mormons, bring a sixpack for yourself. If you are going with one Mormon, better bring a case. Maybe two.)

Flights out of Salt Lake were notorious back in the day for, um, higher than average alcohol consumption by the passengers. I believe they still are. Go figure....

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-08-31 21:17|| 2009-08-31 21:17|| Front Page Top

#15 IMHO the country would be better off with less LAWYERS in political office.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-08-31 23:49|| 2009-08-31 23:49|| Front Page Top

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