Ted Kennedy

The lion is no more.

I spent a good bit of the day following the National coverage of the Ted Kennedy Funeral.

There are so many things to say about Ted Kennedy. He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up For 4 years instead of 2. Daddy fixed ir for him. He was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of
Private, & returned to Harvard upon being discharged. While attending law school at the U of V, he was cited for reckless driving 4 times, including once when he was clocked driving 90 MPH in a residential neighborhood with his headlights off After dark.. Yet his Virginia driver's license was never revoked. In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash & hospitalized for several months. Test results done by the hospital at the time he was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated. The results of those tests
Remained a "state secret" until in the 1980's when the report was unsealed. And then on July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts and offered to give a ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, flipped, and into Poucha Pond. Another cover-up by the family. Kennedy has held his Senate seat for more than forty years. He authored or Argued for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights, increased the Minimum wage in 1981, made access to health care easier for the indigent, Funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors, and is widely held as the "standard-bearer for liberalism".. In his very first Senate roll he was the floor manager for the bill that turned U.S. Immigration policy upside down and opened the floodgate for immigrants from Third world countries..
Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of every Expansion of an increase in immigration up to and including the latest Attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Not to mention the pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court nominees, as if he was the
standard bearer for the nation in matters of "what's right".

He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous, and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description than "great American". "A blonde in every pond" is his motto.

Flawless was he not. Who is? But he climbed mountains to better the lot of middle-class Americans. Such selfless public dedication shall be sorely missed.

"....to speak for those who have no voice; to remember those who are forgotten; to respond to the frustration and fulfill the aspiration of all Americans seeking a better life in a better land....for all those whose cares have been our concern, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die."

Edward Moore Kennedy, August 12, 1980