Posted on 10/11/2006 3:08:34 PM PDT by Panerai
HARTFORD, Conn. --Republican Rep. Christopher Shays defended the House speaker's handling of a congressional page scandal, saying no one died like at Chappaquiddick in 1969 when Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy was involved.
"I know the speaker didn't go over a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day," the embattled Connecticut congressman told The Hartford Courant in remarks published Wednesday.
"Dennis Hastert didn't kill anybody," he added.
Shays' comments recalled the Chappaquiddick incident, when Kennedy's car ran off a Massachusetts bridge, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy did not immediately report the tragedy, and later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident.
Last week, Kennedy campaigned for Democrat Diane Farrell, who is locked in a bitter fight with Shays that could help determine whether Democrats recapture the House after 12 years of GOP control.
"This is symptomatic of Chris losing his composure in a tight race," Farrell said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press Wednesday. "Chris just seems to be lashing out in anger."
Kennedy's office had a terse response.
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Quote: "This is symptomatic of Chris losing his composure in a tight race," Farrell said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press Wednesday. "Chris just seems to be lashing out in anger."
No, its symptomatic of Republicans starting to fight back after the October "Foley" suprise. Reid is next on the pinata fest. Better strap on the body armor dems, if you want to throw stones from your glass houses, you had better be ready to be covered in glass.
that would be "surprise." Been at work too long today.
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.
OK, but would you let your daughter ride in a car with Uncle Teddy?
Didn't think so...
That certainly doesn't denote someone the GOP should follow.
Shays is a typical NE Pubbie. Not a leader for the GOP.
2 or 3 weekends ago, Kim Komando on her radio computer show let a caller ramble on about this.
Kim did a monologue about her ordinary upbringing, how her parents bought a fixer-upper in a now tony neighborhood. She was going on about her career as a drywaller and 'lectrician, when she fielded the call.
The guy said "yeah, I know where that was, my parents lived there, just down the street where the Kopechnes lived, after they got their money from the Kennedys." He was allowed to wonder how they could accept money without publicly demanding justice for their daughter's death at the hands of Ted Kennedy. And Kim let him go on for 3 minutes, an eternity for a caller, she even did her uh-hum and and some give and take!
Maybe there is hope for this world.
Hallelujah! What took 'em so friggin' long?
Actually, it should be " A Bridge Not Far Enough"
You see I have these big fingers and I type with only two of them, too many times I hit two buttons at once or the wrong ones. I apologise for my typo's.
A Bridge Too Drunk.:-)
I still wonder just how Edward* Kennedy sleeps at night.
Even soaked in scotch, doesn't it ever just eat at him that he selfishly and cowardly sniveled away from the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick while Mary Jo Kopechne died in a desperate, gasping 2-hour frenzy in Edward's Oldsmobile?
Perhaps he doesn't "dignify" such a vision with a conscience.
* I decline to use the familiar form "Teddy" when referring to Mister Kennedy. He's not, nor will he ever be a friend of mine.
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Liberals always consider that an unfair reference.
I also heard Steve Roberts say awhile back that it was unfair to call Byrd a KKK member because that was "a long time ago".
IMO, it's more than past time for the Republican Party to start taking the offense. Nice guys come in last! I say, get in the gutter with them and start fighting. Liberals don't know how to do anything but fight dirty. They're slime through and through.
You just came up with a description of what Fat Ted really is - what ever a semtor is!
He certainly has not acted like a US Senator, so semtor fits!
:-)
I don't know why Republicans don't say that every time that fat piece of crap shows his face in public.
I am really shocked Shays would say this.
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