Posted on 07/16/2008 7:02:51 AM PDT by KevinB
WASHINGTON - Senator Orrin Hatch, the conservative Utah Republican, has written hundreds of songs on patriotic themes - with such titles as "Freedom's Light" and "I Love Old Glory" - as a way of paying tribute to his country.
But his latest trip down Tin Pan Alley had an even more personal resonance: Hatch said he was asked by several colleagues to put down his feelings about a very close friend who is facing a serious illness. The friend is the legendary liberal Ted Kennedy, and the colleagues are Democrats who envision having the song played as a tribute to Kennedy at next month's Democratic convention - and as a living example of a brotherhood that transcends party lines.
The result, "Headed Home," is a lilting ballad that even its author can't repeat without tearing up. The lyrics, he said, refer to Kennedy's heroic return to the Senate where Kennedy has served for almost 46 years and Hatch for 32.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
You would think the man had more to do right now than write songs.
The ‘pubs are in trouble when any of them can call an unrepentant, drunken murderer, a “friend”
Makes you sick!!! Its just a Country Club!
The dims spit in our face and show their a$$e$ just like their constituants with baggy pants down. Many of our pubby senators run fast to kiss the dim’s a$$e$.
Term limits may be the only fix.
“Nailing, Nailing, Over The Bounding Main”?
“Drill, Ye Kennedys, Drill”?
Or maybe Orrin went for a little Eighties nostalgia rather than folk balladry and turned the Polecats’ “Make A Circuit With Me” into “Make A Sandwich With Me”?
A pox on all their houses.
I AM GOING TO THROW UP!!!!!!!!
Orrin fiddles while America burns.
Really.
I don’t WANT people on our side to be friends with people like Kennedy. I want them to look at him and his ilk with nothing but contempt and scorn, recognize them as enemies of our country who must be defeated and then do everything in their power to defeat them... not make up stupid songs praising them. Morons.
Nay, the nation is in trouble when a man like Ted Kennedy is allowed to stay in the government for so long. Privileged at birth he became even more privileged in the Senate, a bully of enormous proportions who strayed far from the Republic, moving America, a free nation, closer to Communism each year he stayed in his post. The men and women in the United States Senate had better start looking at themselves if they condone the likes of Ted Kennedy. Orin Hatch, it is time to hang up your hat.
If he waxes eloquently about his dog then we will know its time for him to go.
I wonder how that sweet little sentiment is working out for the parents of Mary Jo? When is she "headed home"?
A better title for a ballad to memorialize Kennedy's vicious legacy would be "Dragging America Left And Down"!
I saw a clip of Orrin Hatch in the senate from a few yeas ago. He was berating Kennedy over something and then said something like “If you don’t believe it I have a bridge in Massachusetts I’ll sell you” or something similar with an inferench to the infamous Chappy bridge. 10 minutes later he was standing up saying he was “morified” that his reference had the double meaning and he apologized for another 2 minutes.
morified ++>> mortified
As usual, "Don't count your Hatch before he chickens."
I dread the time when old Teddie dies.... we will see his life story, (minus Chappy) over and over and over again, plus re runs every chance that the alphabet channels can get.. the history channel will go nuts... as if he was king..
“nation is in trouble”
yup.
Hatch has to waste time writing something to salute this POS?
He should’ve just serenaded the old sot with Bridge Over Troubled Water...if he feels so strongly about him.
Count on it, the media has assigned people to this story now and they will amass a HUGE pile of crap to run as they work diligently for the next 6-12 months on their "tribute".
Is it the water in Washington?
“My guess is those here writing about how terrible Kennedy is and are sick at what Sen Hatch has done, have never met either man”
I dont need to meet the man to know that he was an unrepetent murderer, rapist, condones and promotes the killing of innocent babies, is a racist, hates middle America, a thief and liar. This is the problem with the GOP they dont have the balls to do whats right - its always aobut reconcilliation, reaching across the isle. Its past time we make a line in the sand and tell the leftist we will not sacrifice our morals and convictions in order to appear to play nice. We are in a war the and leftist in America are willing to do anything in order to win, we had better be ready to match their ferocity.
I remember Helms taking the floor on one occasion following Kennedy. He started with, “Well, I can’t match the Senator for decibels or Jezebels or any other kind of belles, .......” I was a dummycrat then and it made me change the channel, but I love it now.
My goodness, there is almost no politician whose life has been more of an open book than Kennedy’s. He is a sociopath, is a renowned drunk, has killed an innocent woman who he may have been able to save if he had for one second considered anything other than protecting his own hide, and has been an enemy of everything good in this country for nearly fifty years. I have read and seen enough of him to know that I have no interest whatsoever in knowing him personally. You can choose to hide your head in the sand regarding Ted Kennedy, but don’t expect the rest of us to do so.
Mary Jo Kopeckne is not available to sing the ballad from the senate floor.
Hey Hatch, get busy on “Ode to Mary Jo”
Like was said, you do not know and have no desire to know the man, and you accuse me of hiding my head in the sand - too funny, and so grown up. Then you should just keep your hatred, it fits well here at FR.
Yuck! I gather there is no mention of Mary Jo.
You have it bass ackwards. Republicans won both houses back when they were - or at least pretended to be - real Republicans and then lost both houses when they made it clear that they were simply Democrats in disguise.
Orrin Hatch.....just another poster boy for TERM LIMITS!
“yea, the Tom Delay school of interaction, how did that work out for the Republicans?”
HAHAH, LOL, you think we lost the majority because we of Tom Delay tactics? You gotta quit drinking the SF water. Let me guess you probably believe that LaRaza is a civil rights org. too? We lost the majority because of idiot RINOs like Dennis Hastert, Bush and McCain, etal...
The GOP stands for nothing, most Americans dont even know that it is the dems running congress. The GOP might as well be called dem-light. There is no need to vote for the GOP anymore - that is why they have lost the majority. They stand for nothing, they have no convictions...everything is up for debate and they arent willing to fight for middle America - thus middle America could care less about the GOP.
Time to get your facts straight - if you think by acting like a dem is going to get people motivated to vote for the GOP your crazy or uneducated. One more thing Tom Delay was convicted by the media without ever recieving a trial - the dems like Robert Dodd and Obama can get unscrupulous loans and nothing is said or the story is has a very short life. It was not about Delay or conservative principles as it was about media bias. Delay was pushed out because he was a conservative - by the likes of RINOs like McCain and Bush.
Then keep trying to move to the right, it appears to be working very well for the Republican party.
It has nothing do to with hatred and everything to do with knowing who your enemies are. In addition to watching Ted Kennedy's actions for many years, I have read several biographies of him. I have also read "Senatorial Privilege," which discusses in detail the Chappaquiddick matter. He is simply not a man worthy of respect. You have been around here for a while, so you don't appear to be a troll, but I would encourage you to learn more about the man you are defending.
[He is simply not a man worthy of respect.]
You are absolutely correct and SF Republican is absolutely wrong.
kennedy’s longest lasting and most troublesome legacy is his destruction of our immigration system which has resulted in millions of our enemies being allowed into our country so that they can destroy the USA from within.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there is an especially hot spot in hell awaiting this man’s soul. He’s earned it.
We lost Tom Delay because of Democrat dishonesty and skulduggery — just as we lost the House and Senate and, if the shadows remain unaltered, we will lose the White House. How is at least one of our vaunted leaders standing up to this apocalyptic challenge? By composing a pusilanimous paeon to perhaps the most vile and underhanded architect of our destruction. We desparately need a Delay now; not a mealy-mouthed, make-nice milquetoast serenading the wost of the worst.
The mystery is solved for me. I now see at least one San Francisco Republican is no more than a Democrat with a nice suit and a close shave. Tom Delay fell victim to an agenda-driven, cosmically deceitful prosecutor achieving, after two failed attempts, a fraudulent indictment. He could not serve nor run again without violating the rules of his party. The extent of the patently dishonest campaign against him gives evidence of how far the left will go to suppress a potent enemy. Tom Delay was and is a great man because he stood up for traditional Americanism with righteous acerbity, not silly songs and gestures of appeasement.
To the hirsute and rumpled SF Rino: He could and would have (been reelected) without the false stain of a nefarious plot hanging over him. You seem to applaud these despicable tactics, rather than condemn them as any truly fair-minded, justice driven individual would be compelled to do. Delay was first and foremost a patriot, choosing to abandon his seat rather than assume it under an undeserved cloud which could provide fodder for our enemies. When you sing your own little song of appeasement, it will be in a heightened key because those you wish to praise will be blithely squeezing your testicles.
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