Oh, no: Here comes “Open Borders For Teddy”
First, KennedyCare.
Next up: ShamnesTeddy.
Morton Kondracke is leading the charge:
Along with a health care reform bill, it would be a fitting tribute to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) if Congress could act on his other great unfinished cause: immigration reform.
For all his liberal Democratic passion, Kennedy understood — as few of his colleagues seem to nowadays — the importance of working on a bipartisan basis to get legislation passed.
He worked with President George W. Bush to pass No Child Left Behind education reform and a Medicare prescription drug law, though he ultimately opposed the final bill as insufficiently generous.
Kennedy’s death undoubtedly will elicit calls to get health care reform legislation passed in his memory, but reforming the immigration system was also one of his major goals yet unreached…
…Obama campaigned in 2008 promising that comprehensive immigration reform would be on his first-year agenda, but during a trip to Mexico this month, he said it had to be put off until 2009, an election year.
The administration is certain to call for swift action on health care reform as a tribute to Kennedy. But it also should accelerate work on immigration reform in his name.
The mad rush to capitalize on Kennedy’s death is yet the latest manifestation of Rahm Emanuel’s decree to never allow a crisis to go to waste.
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They will push up the plan for the American Union.
Don’t hold your breath
Thing is, their idea of immigration “reform” is the full enactment of a come-one, come-all policy.
I’m surprised at Mr. Kondracke for advocating this to the administration; at times, he seemed so very well reasoned and reasonable on FNC’s Special Report.
How do you think Obama can get away with saying that the health care bill won’t cover illegal aliens?
Make them legal and he’s not lying.
The Dems are taking this to the extreme and are trying to attach Kennedy’s name to anything and everything, then try to shove it through. It’s insane! In the future, do you think we’ll look back and say this was the event that started the 2nd US civil war?
I have listened to Morton Kondracke on Amnesty several times-he will lie and pull the most ridiculous “facts” right out of the air to make his point. To say the least I was shocked by the boldness of it and how his fellow panelist let him get away with it.
He does not scream as does Geraldineo Rivera but he does lie. Perhaps like Lindsy Graham the most important function of the United States is to provide lower greens fees.
immigration reform–They define the terms so they win the debate?
Can bank robbery be redefined as “cash withdrawal reform? Rape as intimacy reform? Leaving the scene of a fatal accident as call daddy’s lawyers reform?
Change we can believe in!
This is stupid. Why do we have to do anything “for Teddy”? Who the heck was he that we have to all of a sudden run around fulfilling his pathetic dreams and securing his ridiculous legacy? Yeesh! Make me sick, already.
I, for one, am looking forward to “Open Bar For Teddy”.
Here’s another wrinkle on the
ObamaKennedyCare bill: the IRS is required to share most (if not all) information to whatever commission is created.The next time Kondracke is on Special Report, I hope Krauthammer tells Mort he’s an idiot.
Mary Jo Kopechne (July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969) was unavailable for comment.
DON’T FORGET: Obama is UNDOCUMENTED… at least until he releases his birth certificate.
This sticker is the best:
http://www.zazzle.com/obama_undocumented_sticker_bumper_sticker-128275193961387430
http://www.AntiObamaSticker.com
As a first step, any chance they can bury Teddy on the other side of the Rio Grande?
The hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds.
A more fitting tribute would be installing guard rails on all bridges in MA with stimulus money.
#7 MT Conservative – yeah, I’m with you. We don’t owe Teddy anything, including enhancing his “legacy.” I think I heard the word legacy about a thousand times yesterday. Enough already!
How about we convict him of second degree murder.
Nobody is more important than the country. Nobody. This kind of stuff sickens me. I’m sorry for his family that he died, but emotion can not be used to pass anything. Period.
J.D. in DC – Loved that sticker! Call me any name you want—like I care what liberals think, not!
Not long after the weekend that Teddy drove off the bridge and Americans landed on the moon, I recall thinking, young and foolish and optimistic as I was, that American now had an amazing clear choice about its future: A) embrace the whole beautiful universe beyond of incredible truths and discoveries, or B) drive off the bridge with Ted and lie ’till we died. Even at the time I was thinking option B was far more likely.
Errah, I also have household appliances. Can you add my name to Cash for a Appliances legislation too??!! Had I know it was this easy to get my name on bills and pushed through the Senate I would have checked out long ago! BTW I love John McCain.
Geeze, what a shame he died just before Odopey was going to name him “Fat Pig Czar”
Archie Bunker on Democrats, somethings never change.
It’s funny – libs thought the program was popular because Bunker was such a right wing nut, and Meatball was such a wonderful foil. It was really popular because he was so often right. Too bad Carroll O’Connor never listened to himself.
I think the proper tribute to Teddy would be to drop the federal excise tax on booze.
Republicans should jump on the bandwagon and pass the Kennedy Memorial Tax Cut, the Kennedy Memorial Concealed Carry License Reciprocity, the Kennedy Memorial Border Security.
And, finally, the Kennedy Memorial Mandatory Prison Sentence For Vehicular Homicide.
I wonder if the donks have learned anything about shamelessness in politicizing the dead, or if they’re going to go Paul Wellstone on us again.
So far, it looks like the latter.
Errah that would be the No Child left in my Oldsmobile legislation . . . .
And bridge tolls.
Oh, Hell, no!
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. WE are the civilian national security force! Let “healthcare reform, the Kennedy edition” and amnesty for
undocumented immigrantsillegal alien criminals die with Ted. The resistance is here; the resistance is now! RESIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Can I have a waitress sandwich for Teddy?
Since you seem to be in a generous mood, how about making the Bush tax cuts permanent, adding a capital gains tax cut, and eliminating the death tax?
ECS
Will the public ever wake up to what is needed is not immigration reform but immigration enforcement? The problems we are facing are not because of bad laws but because the laws are openly flouted by illegals and their enablers with little chance of punishment. If the liberals use the word reform after an idea it is a sure sign of their intent to destroy something and make it into something that fits their needs (i.e. getting re-elected.) Health care, immigration, education or anything else that is reformed by liberals becomes a tangled mess that functions poorly for the average citizen.
Example: When Bill Clinton first proposed welfare reform and the Dems were in control of congress, it had a price tag of billions and and made no real mandatory reductions in welfare roles but relied more on education, training and smoke and mirrors. Fortunately the Democrats were defeated and the Gingrich Republicans took over the bill and shoved it down his throat (for which he now gladly takes credit.)
Now, as a tribute for the departed Senator, I would like to suggest The Ted Kennedy Free Whiskey For Everybody Alcohol Reform Bill.
Just in time for 2010 elections.
Here is everything Kennedy deserves to have written about him.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
This may be a good time to ask:
When will the GOP or conservatives have a strategy in place to prevent another Rudy McRomney debacle in 2012?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
We’re so busy watching the trainwreck, we’re not watching where we are driving.
Disappointed in Mort. Thought he was more moderate. He has been one democrat that I didn’t mind listening to.
As it effects spending on health care, I’d like to see some sunlight shed on what the folks in WDC are thinking these days regarding illegal aliens. Yes, aliens!
Sorry, folks. The Late Ted Kennedy wouldn’t have known bipartisanship if it walked up and bit him in the nose. Getting tired of the endless fawning and the references to “Camelot.”
the kennedy memorial deport all illegal aliens act
the kennedy memorial mandatory e-verify act
the kennedy memorial jail all illegal alien employers act
well you get the theme…
Camelot is a famous strip club in DC. Maybe that’s is what they are talking about.
Where’s the crisis? As far as I see the sharp point of the democrapic knife has been dulled, at least temporarily. Oh yes, the typical rino’s will be paying homage to that( how long before it’s appropriate to call that un-American what I really think of him?) LION(my butt..more like a left wing pig), as they show their true colors, voters do not forget. Remember what you learned as kid(if your over 40 that is) you can be spotted by the friends you keep…McShame, Leslie Gramnasty and the rest.
The real crisis is healthcare reform, stimulus package, cash for clunkers, amnesty coming down the pike and on and on and on.
Kennedy played a strong role in previous immigration bills passed by Congress. If there is a need for immigration reform, then it would imply that previous legislation was either inadequate or ineffective. Thus, those individuals who were involved in passage of previous legislation are thereby clearly not qualified to lead the effort to reform “immigration”, given that legislation they championed in the past is flawed enough that it needs to be reformed. Thus, Kennedy should never have had any say or influence in the matter.
“If the opposite of pro is con, what is the opposite of Progress?”
Gee, I wonder if we can use that to pressure the Beacon Hill gang to drop the sales tax increase – we now pay a tax on the tax on alcoholic beverages. And they wonder why so many people are heading for the border.
What’s the crisis?
Are there no XXL coffins available on the East Coast?
Every one of them brings up ‘Camelot,’ one of us should bring up ‘The Lady in the Lake.’
Make mine whisky.
I wouldn’t characterize Uncle Teddy’s death as a crisis. I see it as more like delayed justice.
New drinking game! Everytime you hear the word Camelot, take a shot! (make mine Chivas in honor of Teddy)
(10 minutes later, to wife) I’m not as dink as you thrunk I am! Don’t give me that stank blare, I know my cacapity! (hic)
I always wondered why the comparison to “Camelot”. As I recall, all was not well in that imaginary land and that the story ended badly.
It wasn’t a very good movie either.
Socky and Rogue, you two are exceeding the limits of funny today. I ask permission to use the Lady of the Lake comment. Rogue, I agree with the delayed justice. People use to have the backbone to tar and feather the Uncle Teddys of the world and ship them out of town on the rail. Nowadays we lionize them.
ABC News asks ‘What Do They Kennedy’s Mean to You’. I’m sure the answers shocked them.
“Camelot” was used to describe the JFK era/milieu and had nothing to do with Teddy, who at the time was considered the stupid brother.
Sock & Cheddar,
Very nice! But one thing pains me. I have had a great time in all my writings picking on the Lard (err, Lion) of the Senate. Now, I have to pick a new “non-favorite” politician.
Decisions, decisions….
PS: Rogue, that smoked Gouda the wife got from Whole Foods was Gooooo-uuuuda! Eat your heart out!
Remember that “being a Kennedy means never having to ask ‘how much?’”
Saw the reference this morning in the local paper. And what do you mean “at the time”? He continued to be long after JFK.
They asked about any special memories of the Kennedys. Somehow how I can’t get the trial in Palm Beach out of my head when one of that dumb-ass clan was asked in court “Did you get sand on your penis?” That pretty well sums them up for me.
Liberals are giving Ted Kennedy the Christopher Reeves moment he deserves.
The reason that liberals like to use dead people to endorse liberal causes is because liberals confuse silence with approval.
Kill granny, do it for Ted. He did it for Mary Jo.
I hope they all settle in Massachuesetts
What?! None for me?! Not even some Wensleydale?!
Another liberal who got of the hook many times. Nothing but an uniformed blow hard living off his family’s fame and misfortune. Really sad example of a politician.
NO THANKS! I’ve more than I can handle already!
Ditto!
This dog and pony show will make the Jacko show look like it never happened. Kondracke is a liberal, that means he will lie and make up facts because the truth is what they say is the truth. We have are work cut out for us on this open borders just like ObamaCare and the Cap and Traitor Bill.
On August 27th, 2009 at 12:53 pm, ajmontana said:
Geeze, what a shame he died just before Odopey was going to name him “Fat Pig Czar”
Thats cool but I thought he was going to be the “BAR CZAR”
Okay, we’ve got “Teddycare”, and Open Borders for Teddy. When are we going to see a bailout of U.S. booze distillers in his memory?
Wow. You linked to your own blog.
People come here to read from this blog. And the comments here. What makes you think that people want to see your blogspam links here?
Lady in the Lake. Isn’t that the one who threw expensive cutlery at strangers passing by? I here one of them became a tragic king.
Rogue–Yes? Oh, I thought you were talking to me.
My name is Wensleydale.
I would hardly call the passing of the evil slob and murderer, Ted Kennedy, a “crisis.”
Of course, Democrats are going to capitalize on the death and glowing nonstop coverage of their liberal hero. They know how to fight.
Yet, Michelle refuses to say one unkind word about Ted Kennedy. Who does that benefit? Of course: The Democrats and the MSM and their agenda.
Michelle and these “nice” Republicans are a major problem right now in the conservative movement.
At least Rush today and other principled conservatives are telling the truth about Ted Kennedy.
Michelle is biding her time. I agree that she should. She is in a different position than Rush or the commenters here on her blog. The tactics have to be different.
Her book is the most important consideration right now in terms of her effectiveness. She doesn’t want the reality of the blatant corruption of this Administration to get embroiled in arguments about her civility with regard to the dead …… guy.
Fixed it…..
MOUSEBENDER:
Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?.
WENSLEYDALE:
Not today, sir, no.
(pause)
MOUSEBENDER:
Ah, how about Cheddar?
WENSLEYDALE:
Well, we don’t get much call for it around here, sir.
MOUSEBENDER:
Not much ca- It’s the single most popular cheese in the world!
WENSLEYDALE:
Not round here, sir.
Thomas, we all do. It’s called a shameless plug. Some call it the original version of social networking.
And in that spirit, I offer you mine (which you can also get by clicking my name above): http://tinyurl.com/achefty/
And what IS the most popular cheese ’round here?
Is it?
One he never mentioned: Chedam. A blend of Cheddar and Edam (though they were mentioned individually). Only available with Hickory Farms.
Mmmmmmmm. Cheese!
Just because somebody provides a link. You are not forced to click upon it. Or is it like a scab, you feel compelled to pick?
I usually don’t mind. Unless it’s Red Pill who used to link his blog every post, multiple times per post.
Or Debbie Schlussel, just because I find her so objectionable.
Wow, chap–you really don’t like Debbie. You even made the dreaded ‘fat’ insinuation the other day. You sure know how to hurt a girl.
That.
My favorite cheese is a …rogue cheddar! It has such a unpredictable taste!
ahhhhhhh the cat’s eaten it.
Come on…did you SEE her real photo compared to her publicity photo. I mean, a touch up here and there is one thing. But what she did would be like airbrushing Michael Jackson circa 2005 to look like Michale Jackson circa 1985.
And you realize that photos & video add pounds, right? That’s not a joke.
Come on all of you, America 1.0 is over! Welcome America 2.0! A new America with a new constitution in 2 languages! Don’t you all get it? What Obama et al. are doing is to gut our country and build a new one, right in fornt of our nose! Is that not obvious?
Kondracke is such an embarrassment. The quintescential Washington insider who thinks his worldview will benefit the rest of us. He is nothing but a shill, and a pretty transparent one, when it comes to issues like immigration. He is so busy compromising and reaching out to be “bipartisan” he forgets to critically analyze the implications of what such legislation would mean for the rest of us.
And Kondracke doesn’t minding using Death Politics to further an agenda. Look how he used his wife’s death to further stem cell research funding. Disgusting, but understandable, given Kondracke’s shallow understanding of not only the American people, but his role as an “independent observer.”
Kondracke lost his knack for being “independent” a long time ago. I just wish these insider, Washington Beltway reporters like Kondracke in his ilk would just retire and stop pretending that he’s actually looking out for the rest of us. His colleague, Fred Barnes, should do the same.
Found it a bit runny, I presume.
MOUSEBENDER:
Have you in fact got any cheese here at all?
WENSLEYDALE:
Yes, sir.
MOUSEBENDER:
Really?
(pause)
WENSLEYDALE:
No. Not really, sir.
MOUSEBENDER:
You haven’t.
WENSLEYDALE:
No, sir, not a scrap. I was deliberately wasting your time, sir.
MOUSEBENDER:
Well, I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to shoot you.
WENSLEYDALE:
Right-O, sir.
MOUSEBENDER:
(Shoots him) What a senseless waste of human life.
But still usually bear some resemblance to the actual person. I would encourage anyone here to google images of our hostess, where you can see candid photos as compared to publicity shots. And then do the same with Debbie.
All right, someone stop me before I get any more catty.
Ok–I don’t know Debbie from Adam. Just thought I’d ask.
(chap likes skinny girls)
Sorry, unsubstantiated, need more proof.
I think Chapoutier’s vehement dislike of Debbie Schlussel equals a secret crush on her. Either that, or he doesn’t like her criticism of barbarian Muslims. Probably both.
Now I could really go for Rocquefort le Papillon now. Thanks a lot guys.
Mary Jo wants to know, too.
If the Vaseline photo shown there bore any resemblance to what she actually looked like, maybe.
Also maybe if she did not consider everyone who did not immediately bow in supplication and offer a libation before uttering the word “Israel” an anti-Semite on par with Hitler. That would be cool too.
corona, that’s not very respectful of you…I like it, it made me laugh.
What, no Dorset Blue Vinney, Brie, Pont-l’Évêque, Port Salut, Savoyard, Saint-Paulin, Carre-de-L’Est, Bresse-Bleu, Boursin?
Can we do something in Teddy’s name that is actually something reflected in his lifestyle?
I call on Congress to pass the Teddy Memorial Responsible Drinking Law:
Whereas men and women can join our military and defend this country with their lives at the age of 18, people of the age of 18 and up will be allowed to buy and consume alcohol and enter any adult establishment.
Whereas MADD is mad, not to mention a bunch of professional, prohibitionist men, the BAC limit for determining DWI will be reset from 0.08 to 0.1.
Why stop there? There’s a long list of the usual Marxist goals to be done “in his name”.
Oh, yeah, Rogue—-I like those too. I just feel like the rocquefort now.
And finish with some Stilton….mmmmm
and a Groot Constantia Bouquet Blanc!