Posted on 07/18/2007 5:49:42 AM PDT by ninonitti
Ted Kennedy pulled an all-nighter last night - how ironic is that? There must be something about Ted Kennedy and all-nighters on July 18, because it was 38 years ago tonight that he pulled another one.
At Chappaquiddick.
Will Teddy’s Senate office issue a statement today about the anniversary of his 1969 drive off the bridge? They used to. But you know the Kennedy bumkissers would prefer to ignore this day which will live in his infamy. Nothing to see here, folks, move along. After all, Teddy’s got so many big issues on his plate, even after the defeat of his latest illegal-alien amnesty bill.
There’s Iraq, of course, which is what the planned all-nighter was about. And Teddy’s been trying to get some new “hate crimes” legislation passed. Ted’s very concerned about crime. Just don’t bring up any of the ones he committed.
You know what the Kennedy coatholders will say. It was so long ago. Hasn’t he suffered enough? How much does one family . . . blah blah blah.
But somebody’s got to mention it. I mean, right now the liberals are trying to run Louisiana Republican David Vitter out of the Senate be000047he had a few, ahem, indiscretions.
So in the interest of recalling a sordid chapter of American history that the Beautiful People would like to consign forever to oblivion, let’s go straight to Teddy’s speech a week after Mary Jo Kopechne was killed when he drove his mother’s 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont off a bridge. (Comments in italics.)
“This morning I entered a plea of guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident.”
And lost his driver’s license - not that it stopped him from driving, of course. A couple of weeks later he would be stopped in Waltham, for driving without a license.
“On the weekend of July 18, I was on Martha’s Vineyard island participating with my nephew, Joe Kennedy - as for 30 years my family has participated - in the annual Edgartown Sailing Regatta.”
You know Joe Kennedy - it would be another four summers before he crippled a young woman, Pam Kelley, in a Jeep accident on the other island, of Nantucket.
“There is no truth, no truth whatever to the widely circulated suspicions of immoral conduct that have been leveled at my behavior. Nor was I driving under the influence of liquor.”
Riiiiiiight. Just ask Sen. Chris Dodd.
Then the Delmont went into the drink, as it were.
“My conduct and conversations during the next several hours, to the extent that I can remember them, make no sense to me at all.”
Actually, for Ted Kennedy, they make perfect sense.
“I was overcome, I’m frank to say, by a jumble of emotions - grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock.”
Sounds like a bad ice cube to me, but you can trust Sen. Kennedy - he’s not like the others.
“In the morning, with my mind somewhat more lucid.”
Did someone say hangover?
“These events, the publicity, innuendo and whispers which have surrounded them and my admission of guilt this morning raises the question in my mind of whether my standing has been so impaired that I should resign my seat in the United States Senate.”
Another dream denied.
“For me this will be a difficult decision to make.”
Sort of like, Chivas on the rocks or Chivas straight.
Mary Jo died 38 years ago tonight. And yet we the people of Massachusetts re-elected him, in 1970, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000 and 2006.
And isn’t that the real lesson of Chappaquiddick? In a democracy, you get the government you deserve, dammit.
I have a friend who will refer to Ted only as ‘The Distinguished Motorist from Massachusetts”.
-—thanks to Howie Carr-—
So did the Swimmer make it through last night’s Senate (fool-a) bluster session or did he slip away to say mass for Mary Jo’s soul?
What a great site, made me sick again to think he got away with it.
The Fatboy.com web-site is much better. Howie actually has the Ice-Bucket from the party house. There were eight people there. Four guys and the four Boiler Room Girls. The booze list would take out a Platoon.
He should have been up last night making speeches with a neck brace on wearing swimming trunks.
(1) K-e-v-l-a-r.... everytime you go out....
(2) Check those brake lines every morning!
(3) Leave all the evidence in a safe deposit box
(Give the key to an out-of-state attorney with a copy of your affadiavits, your deposition and Will)
Ohhh never mind it all...
The Taxachussetts group is not as skilled as X42 & company when it comes to Arkancide..
Silly me....
Have a nice day...
He may have gotten away with it on this earth but...his day will come when he meets his maker and ... there ya have it.
There’s nothing to compare with The National Lampoon of that time. I believe that PJ O’Rourke was one of the editors then.
You forgot to tell him to check his basketball for C-4.
(some mobsters aren’t as bright as others...)
You might want to rethink that suggestion, we don’t want a plague of sickness here, there is no picture more repulsive as him in swimming trunks, makes me feel like up-chucking just thinking about it.
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