Ted Kennedy’s legacy not as heroic as some might think...hint: Chappaquiddick

Edward "Ted" Kennedy, a fraud of a statesman, is now gone. Yes, rest in peace and all that, but for me his death ends a bitterness which I've harbored most of my life, and for that I'm glad it's over.

I was 15 when Chappaquiddick surfaced as an insignificant Saturday evening story relegated to the inner pages of most of the nation's afternoon newspapers (two dailies were common back then, a morning paper and an evening edition such as the Milwaukee Sentinel and the Milwaukee Journal). Conveniently for Kennedy, this was the same weekend of Apollo 11's manned lunar landing which attracted virtually all the media coverage for days on end. The ultimate fulfillment of JFK's goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade unanimously overshadowed drivel like a curiously upended Oldsmobile in Poucha Pond and an unfortunate "drowning." After all, Friday night drunk-driving stories were not all that uncommon back in the days before breathalyzers came into being.

Without lauding the accomplishments and shortcomings of his two older brothers JFK and RFK, allow me to indisputably say that "Theodore" failed to uphold the inspiring Kennedy aura. The kid brother's expulsion for cheating at Harvard was one thing, but a life supposedly dedicated to championing for the little guy all the while exploiting the protective double standard of aristocracy in America was the utmost in hypocrisy. Regarding Chappaquiddick, as for Kennedy emerging virtually unscathed both physically and in reputation, the rest of us would still be in jail.

Therefore, my youthful faith, trust, and belief in politicians was forever shattered. The pantheon of respectables like Dwight D. Eisenhower and JFK, Senators William Proxmire and Everett Dirksen, and Milwaukee's own Mayor Henry Maier was now accompanied and sullied by an imposter the likes of Theodore. How could anyone get away with such behavior and still garner respect? Re-electable respect! A married man of stature cavorting with single girls, driving while intoxicated with an expired license, fleeing from a patrol car, failing to report an accident for nearly nine hours, and then conveniently lawyering up as the distinguished Senator was virtually given a pass by the inquisitive but ever reverent local constabulary. We later learned that he called the parents of Mary Jo Kopechne the following morning advising them of their daughter's passing never mentioning that, oh by the way, he was the one driving the "cahr."

Oh well, I'll get over it. It's just that as a young kid, I needed respectable and upstanding heroes to uphold my faith and belief that honesty, integrity, and hard work are all attainable and rewarding virtues worthy of defense at all costs. Instead, via Theodore, I've witnessed the rewards of deceit and dishonesty, debauchery, disrespect, elitism, the extreme exploitation of society's double standards, and the filthiness of posturing which has become somehow excused and exonerated while shrouded as simply "party politics."

As one could guess, I did not favor the Senator from Massachusetts as many do. The fawning media and the Democrat Party are quite a bit more forgiving. Rather, the fawning media and the Democrat Party are quite a bit more forgetful.

For an in depth analysis of Chappaquiddick, visit http://issuu.com/milwaukeeroad (or find the link "My PDF Library" in the right-hand column) and access a collection of pdf's featuring the stunningly revealing testimonial of Kennedy's personal attorney Joseph Gargan and his observations of that fateful night in July 1969. Gargan maintained a website at http://www.ytedk.com/ for many years only to see it recently under construction or removed. It was not a complimentary website towards Theodore though. So, that alone may indicate the efforts of one interested party obsessed in cleansing the internet of truthful Kennedy files. Just my own thought on that.

- milwaukeeroad


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Feds: Stimulus money sent to 4,000 cons

Funds for Cons...Cash for Clunkers...and we are being told the government can run a healthcare program?!


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Bush Quietly Saved a Million African Lives

If a Democratic Party president had done this, he would be feted as both a national hero and international hero on his way to a ceremony with the Nobel Committee. George W. Bush, however, is getting very little credit—or, at least, no fanfare. - by Dr. Paul Kengor


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You Might Be a Birther if...

No tinfoil hats here. Kyle-Anne Shiver simply asks for a little proof, that's all. And, a legitimate response from a strangely incurious media. Some proof. Any proof. How about any of these for starters:

• Panahou Academy school records, 5^th through 12^th grades
• Occidental College records, including financial aid information.
• Columbia University records, including the missing senior thesis and financial aid information.
• Harvard University records, including information on how a student who never wrote anything (that can be found) was elected president of the prestigious law review, and including information on how Harvard Law School was afforded by humble community agitator, Barack Obama, or Barry Soetoro.
• Obama's Illinois state senate records and papers, mysteriously lost.

No man or woman in this Country today could successfully apply for a high-level executive position with any corporation without submitting this meager documentation to prove the statements made in a job application. No president in the past 30 years has been permitted this level of secrecy about his life. Yet, today we have a sitting president who has provided none of it. In lieu of actual documents, the American public has a "narrative" created by PR guru, turned political operative, David Axelrod.

excerpted from Kyle-Anne Shiver - American Thinker

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10 Questions which need answers

Ten Questions Politicians Won’t Answer

From National Review by Tom Coburn - Senator from Oklahoma

While I have confidence in the American people to come up with their own probing questions, let me suggest a few questions that my own colleagues have been loath to answer:

1. Why do we need to increase spending on health care by at least $1.6 trillion and steal prosperity from our children and grandchildren when we spend nearly twice per person what other industrialized nations spend on health care?

In my view, any bill that increases spending is a failure and not serious reform. The problem is not that we don’t spend enough on health care, but that we don’t allocate resources efficiently and get value for what we pay.

2. What programs will you cut and whose taxes will you raise to pay for health-care reform?

Any politician — Republican or Democrat — who refuses to answer this question or avoids the topic by deferring to the committees of jurisdiction doesn’t deserve to be in office.

3. What earmarks or pet projects that you have sponsored will you sacrifice to help finance the cost of health-care reform?

It is immoral, in my view, to ask taxpayers to make more sacrifices while politicians practice business-as-usual pork-barrel politics.

4. Will you vote for a public option that requires taxpayer-funded abortion?

The current version of the so-called reform bill requires taxpayer-funded abortion. In the House, this fact prompted 19 pro-life Democrats to send a letter of protest to Speaker Pelosi. In the Senate, an amendment by Barbara Mikulski (D., Md.) that would require taxpayer-funded abortion passed in committee. Sen. Bob Casey (D., Pa.) objected and voted no, saying, “The way it [the Mikulski amendment] is written could be interpreted down the road to include something like abortion.” Are these Democrats also part of the right-wing scare-tactic conspiracy?

5. If the public option is so wonderful, will you lead by example and vote for a plan to enroll you and your family in the public option?

I offered an amendment in committee to force members of Congress to enroll in the public option. Nine out of eleven Democrats on the health committee who back the public option refused. If the politicians creating the public option don’t have confidence in it, neither should the American people.

6. Will you vote for a plan that will allow a board of politicians and bureaucrats to override decisions made by you and your doctor?

Both the Senate and House bills set up a government-run “comparative effectiveness” board that will make final decisions about treatment and care. In committee, I gave senators several opportunities to accept language that would forbid this board from denying care. All of my amendments were rejected, which suggests that the intent is to set up a board that will ration care, as is done in the United Kingdom.

7. If you support a “comparative effectiveness” board, what qualifies you, as a politician, to practice medicine? Have you delivered health care to a single person, much less entire classes of people you claim to represent, such as the poor, the uninsured, or children?

I’m one of two physicians in the Senate, along with John Barrasso of Wyoming. I know for a fact that very few leaders in this debate have any firsthand experience or knowledge of health care, which is disturbing.

8. How will a government-run public option perform better than other failing government programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Indian Health Care?

Forty percent of doctors refuse to accept Medicaid patients because the program is broken. Access to a government program — such as the public option — does not guarantee access to health care.

9. If increasing spending on health care was the solution, why hasn’t it worked yet?

The public-option “reform” is not new at all but an extension of 1960s-era public policies that say a little more government spending and intervention is always the answer.

10. Are you more committed to doing reform right or quickly? Would you consider backing a thoughtful alternative to the public option? If so, which one?

I’ve introduced a bill along with Sen. Richard Burr (R., N.C.) and Reps. Paul Ryan (R., Wisc.) and Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) called the Patient’s Choice Act that guarantees coverage and choice for every American without raising taxes or increasing spending. In fact, our bill will save taxpayers at least $70 billion. Many other members of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, are working on alternatives that don’t herd the American people into a government-run program.

The choice is not between the public option and nothing. The choice is between the public option and an option that can win the support of the public. The future of health care truly is up to you.

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Open letter to the White House

Dearest Linda Douglass,

This is laughable. At http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/ you directly request the public to respond:

If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

OK. Since a representative like John Conyers publicly admits he hasn't even read the bill, and would require the assistance of a couple of lawyers to interpret the bill either way, how would I know what sounds fishy? If he's ignorant of what's in it, why should I rely on my government to adequately inform me? Hmmm? Our own majority members of congress are not intimately familiar with this massive boondoggle and therefore they are unworthy of our inquiry. That irresponsible representation alone directs me to seek alternative sources for information.

Now, you sit here and lie to me regarding your own plan to eliminate the private individual medical insurance market with government run health care and insist that false rumors abound? You're truly out of touch. And, you must be very naive and simple. Via your plan, the only folks who will NOT lose their private insurance coverage are members of Congress!

1,000 plus pages of government run trash. Dump it! You can keep your attempt at communism. There's not even a lick of tort reform in this hastily compiled garbage!

I will continue to seek out alternative views on this disastrous attempt at legislation for no other reason than that I cannot trust you or your president to be truthful. I'd be delusional to think otherwise.

Jeff Wahlen - Orlando


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I'm stickin' with the IBD...

The Investor's Business Daily gallantly continues the fight against the BarryCare government run elimination of the private medical insurance market despite all of the White House denials. I'm stickin' with the IBD for my truth, not Captain Barry!

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Is This Barry's Kenyan Cert?

Since the Congress has collectively chosen to accept some Hawaiian's verbal that she's seen Barry's stateside birth cert, I feel it is my patriotic duty to accept an attorney's claim that the cert in the above photo is the real birth certificate from Kenya. Makes sense to me. I'm OK with it too!

Like I've always said, all I ask of this president is not financial bailouts, free government run healthcare, or even a highly paid do-nothing, unaccountable assignment with ACORN. All I want is his birth certificate. That's all I ask.

A hat tip to both Orly and Joe! The principal responses oughta be marvelous! Interestingly, the Clinton campaign couldn't find such material leading up to the election. Of course, that same bunch couldn't find her Rose Law Firm billing records for two full years all the while under subpoena either.

Let's see how quickly Dan Rather weighs in on this one. If we find out it is a fabrication, I'll opt for this one as offical instead of that forgery sitting in the Hawaiian vaults.

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