By Mr. Curmudgeon
Sixty years of Camelot is ending – not with a bang but a whimper. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), son of the late Edward Kennedy, announced his retirement from politics. “…My life has taken a new direction,” Kennedy said in a video to his dwindling supporters, “and I will not be a candidate for re-election this year.” Recollecting past glories, Kennedy thanked his constituents for looking past his family’s deep pathological character flaws, “When I made missteps or suffered setbacks,” Kennedy said, referring to his DUI conviction and addiction to drugs and alcohol, “you responded not with contempt but with compassion.” Looking at recent polls, however, Kennedy is lucid enough to know that the voter compassion once felt for him and many of his fellow Democrats has morphed into a bubbling caldron of contempt.
In a speech endorsing then candidate Obama for president, Sen. Ted Kennedy said, “I came to the Senate to get things done. We've been able to achieve a number of important achievements, and I want to continue that. My interest is in getting things done, and I think he [Obama] has the ability to bring people together.” The late “Lion of the Senate” was correct. Just a year after taking the oath of office, Barack Husain Obama has united a formidable army of Americans against his and Kennedy’s destructive agenda to “get things done.” That agenda has plunged the nation, Chappaquiddick- like, off the road of fiscal sanity and into the murky depths of red ink. The Tea Party rescued Massachusetts by installing Scott Brown in Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. With their help, they may rescue the rest of the country from the submerged vehicle in which Obama and the Kennedy clan have abandoned us.
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