Posted on 12/31/2011 3:00:39 AM PST by Darkwolf377
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In what has become an all too predictable pattern, former Massachusetts Congressman and Hugo Chavez sympathizer Joe Kennedy has once again launched television and radio advertisements praising Venezuela’s socialist dictator, Hugo Chavez. And once again, Congressman Connie Mack (FL-14), Chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee and Congress’ leading critic of Chavez’s dictatorship, has admonished Kennedy for continuing to publicly laud the Venezuelan strongman.
Mack stated: “It’s beyond shameful that Joe Kennedy continues to line his pockets with a salary from CITGO and use our nation’s less fortunate as a PR mechanism for Hugo Chavez. If Joe Kennedy really wanted to help those who need it, he should support the building of the Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada and the 20,000 good-paying private sector jobs that would result from it.”
The full text of Chairman Mack’s letter is below:
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The Honorable Joseph P. Kennedy II
Chairman
Citizens Energy Corporation
88 Black Falcon Avenue
Center Lobby, Suite # 342
Boston, MA 02210
Dear Congressman Kennedy:
I am both outraged and saddened that I have to write you again to urge that you immediately cease your new ad campaign in support of Venezuelan world-class dictator Hugo Chavez, a man who suppresses the basic human rights of his people and has a strategic military alliance with Iran which threatens the security of the U.S. in our own backyard. Using our nation’s poor and disadvantaged as political tools to advance the cause of Hugo Chavez is shameful.
Given the close ties of Hugo Chavez to the government of Iran, your cause only furthers the destabilization of the Middle East and the safety of Israel as Chavez is one of the largest providers of refined gasoline to the government of Iran.
Subsidizing the nation’s unemployed with corrupt petroleum is neither the long term economic nor the national security solution our nation needs.
Instead, you should join with me in advocating for the building of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would eliminate any need to for America to purchase oil from Venezuela. Keystone not only would provide America with oil from our ally Canada, but also provide an immediate 20,000 private sector jobs to our fragile economy.
Only you can answer the question as to why you continue the pro-Chavez campaign: for the money, for the craving for the spotlight? I would imagine there would be many avenues at your disposal to help the needy instead of allying yourself with Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Hugo Chavez is presently shipping two cargoes of gasoline per month to Iran in direct violation of Comprehensive Iran Sanctions Accountability and Disinvestment Act of 2010, so in effect what your campaign purports to do is turn a blind eye to U.S. law and use the profits of the sale of gas to Iran to fund your pro-Chavez campaign and line your pockets. This is certainly not a Profile In Courage.
The American people and I anxiously await your ending of the pro-Chavez campaign and instead supporting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Sincerely,
CONNIE MACK
Chairman, Western Hemisphere Subcommittee
SOURCE Office of Congressman Connie Mack
There’s a Kennedy for you—taking a nice fat salary while doing self-praising TV commercials about your ‘charity,’ and simulatneously offering PR cover for an enemy of the US.
There are a lot of things about liberals that I just don’t understand — their reverence for Marxist dictators is at the top of that list.
There are a lot of things about liberals that I just don’t understand — their reverence for Marxist dictators is at the top of that list.
It’s their fascism.
But in this case it’s even more base: Money.
OK, Rep. Mack...maybe it wouldn’t mean that much to a Kennedy but if the bastard is entitled to a pension, whack it.
Liberals want to control other people’s lives because they—the liberals—are smarter than anyone else, and know what’s best for those other, dumber people. (But they just as fervently defend their OWN liberty because, you know, they want to be free to use their smarts for their own benefit.)
Liberals like Marxist dictators because they believe in the idea of a benevolent dictator...never understanding that’s an oxymoron.
Brilliant slapdown!
If they could spend a day with one person Jesus or Marx who do you think a lib would choose?
He’s running these despicable radio and TV commercials to fill his pockets. This is nothing more than kennedy doing an Al Gore on the American taxpayer. He is a leeche, a despicable man. Does anyone think he has compassion for the poor or seniors? He is doing business with a dictator at our expense and his gain.
“Liberals like Marxist dictators because they believe in the idea of a benevolent dictator...never understanding that’s an oxymoron.”
I think you’re spot on with this observation.
Didn’t Joe’s grandfather (Joesph Kennedy) snuggle up to Hitler? I guess we’re seeing a pattern here. We should come to expect this from Liberals/Progressives.
Without a doubt: Jesus.
They'd spend the whole day telling Him how to do His job.
They'd just spend a day with Marx staring in awe, and without talking, that'd be a wasted day for a lib.
Those ads make me cringe. I find myself yelling “The ‘people of Venezuela’ had no choice in the matter!” like a lunatic. What a smug piece of work he is.
...”Liberals want to control other people’s lives because they—the liberals—are smarter than anyone else, and know what’s best for those other, dumber people. (But they just as fervently defend their OWN liberty because, you know, they want to be free to use their smarts for their own benefit.)”...
I’m sorry, I must disagree with you about the motive of liberals being that they think they are smarter..Their motives come from the lust for power over other people because they KNOW they are not smarter and if others are allowed the freedom to develop, they (liberals) will be replaced in their positions by folks who truly are smarter. Actually, enslavement of others is their goal and once such dictators have theirs, they work to prevent anyone from challenging their position..That is not how free societies work. Leftists rarely act on acceptable morality such as honestly thinking they are smarter..They work in the darkness of deviancy where lives and freedom are destroyed.
He is just a chip off the old block.
Joe Sr., and Joe Jr. admired Hitler...
...”Like his father, Joe Jr. admired Adolf Hitler. Young Joe had come away impressed by Nazi rhetoric after traveling in Germany as a student in 1934. Writing at the time, Joe applauded Hitler’s insight in realizing the German people’s “need of a common enemy, someone of whom to make the goat. Someone, by whose riddance the Germans would feel they had cast out the cause of their predicament. It was excellent psychology, and it was too bad that it had to be done to the Jews.”...Copied from http://www.hnn.us/articles/697.html
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