^^but a majority with 99 senators is only 50 votes.

8/26/2009 3:35:45 PM

Even out of 100, they'd only need 50 + Joe Biden

8/26/2009 3:38:46 PM

but yeah my question is: is 50 votes a majority now?

8/26/2009 3:43:27 PM

i'm betting they will appoint someone to fill TK's place before this becomes an issue.

8/26/2009 3:46:12 PM

they can't. that was covered on page one, Mass now requires a special election.

8/26/2009 3:47:47 PM

8/26/2009 3:50:50 PM

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"RIP Senator Kennedy. Love him or hate him, Massachusetts and the US Senate won't be the same without Ted. You have to respect the man for standing by his convictions."

I don't have to respect him for standing by his convictions. There are lots of abhorrent, vile people who stand by their convictions. When the convictions are wrong, this is not an admirable quality.

8/26/2009 3:53:23 PM

RIP

8/26/2009 4:07:49 PM

Wow. That is awesome.

8/26/2009 4:15:14 PM

he is resting, but i doubt its in peace

bottoms up old fellow

8/26/2009 5:23:09 PM

At first I didn't care that Ted Kennedy was dead, but on second thought I'm glad, because now he can finally answer for that woman he killed all those years ago.

8/26/2009 5:27:11 PM

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"The Man was a murderer"

There is a long, long list of legitimate bad things to say about him, but by no metric was he a murderer.

8/26/2009 6:29:48 PM

I only came here to see how long it took for prescription conservatives to call him a killer

this thread did not disappoint

and I did, in fact, laugh at that last pic.

[Edited on August 26, 2009 at 6:44 PM. Reason : fasdfasdfa332]

8/26/2009 6:41:26 PM

good to see you're on a higher moral plan than us "common folk".

8/26/2009 7:01:07 PM

has anyone said "good riddance" yet?

8/26/2009 7:12:40 PM

good riddance

8/26/2009 7:19:00 PM

there we go, now it's just like the Jesse Helms thread, lol

8/26/2009 7:21:54 PM

thank GOD it's just like the helms thread

that means everybody's either right or everybody's wrong

either way, i ate lasagna for lunch today and had chicken and asparagus for dinner

i'm excited about how my pee's gonna smell

8/26/2009 7:30:43 PM

^^ quick, go drink a bunch of coffee, too

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"I only came here to see how long it took for prescription conservatives to call him a killer"

Well, he was a killer, but he was not a murderer.

[Edited on August 26, 2009 at 7:38 PM. Reason : was]

8/26/2009 7:37:56 PM

let's see... he drove a car into a river with a woman in it. probably did so intentionally. and then didn't tell anyone for quite a while. yeah, that's a murderer, dude

8/26/2009 7:59:12 PM

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943016-1,00.html

what a corrupt and vile sleaze. the facts of that night are disgusting.

because he was a kennedy, that innocent woman was killed and no justice was served.

8/26/2009 8:11:17 PM

RIP, end of a legacy. John, Robert and now Ted.

8/26/2009 8:30:48 PM

whore killer

8/26/2009 9:07:42 PM

good riddance
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8/26/2009 9:09:50 PM

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"probably did so intentionally."

look, i'm certainly not here to sing his praises. i'm not the guy to seek for any real political endorsements. . .but do you really think the dude drove a car into a pond on purpose? i mean, like, really?

my take on it has ALWAYS been that the fucker got drunk w/ the chick, went out driving to a cool beach spot to park, and most likely bang her, ran off the road and into the goddamned water. realizing he fucked up in a major fucking fashion, ditched the car (and girl), and hoped for his name to remove him from any questioning. smug? you bet. dirty? shit yes. intentional? please.

and, for the 1000th time, yes, politicians are dirty. generally.

[Edited on August 26, 2009 at 9:24 PM. Reason : afssdas]

8/26/2009 9:19:02 PM

^^^^^^ where the fuck are you getting "intentionally" from? That's absurd, and unless that's true, he wasn't a murderer.

Ted Kennedy was a lot of things--most of them shitty--but he wasn't a murderer, and you're a fucking moron if you can't make that distinction.

[Edited on August 26, 2009 at 9:19 PM. Reason : ]

8/26/2009 9:19:23 PM

it's aaronburro. i mean. . .

8/26/2009 9:24:55 PM

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"Moreover, many questions were raised by the Kennedy story. Was it likely that Mary Jo would leave for her motel without her pocketbook or room key? How could Kennedy mistake a rough dirt road for the paved road leading to the ferry? Why had he not sought help at the houses that he passed after the accident? Why did he refuse to answer further questions about the affair, telling reporters, as he did last week, "I can live with my testimony"? "

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"A thorough investigation of the accident might have answered all of the critical questions about Chappaquiddick. But Chief Arena accepted Kennedy's 240-word statement with no questions. There was no autopsy. Dinis' performance in the case was even more baffling. At first he refused to get involved. Three weeks later he changed his mind, and an inquest was held in January 1970. But by then, Dinis' attitude seemed to have changed again. His questions were soft or off the point. In the end, the four-day hearing produced 763 typed pages of testimony from 27 witnesses—but little new information. Some authorities in Massachusetts suspect that he dragged his feet on the case for political reasons. For more than two decades, Dinis has been a political wheeler-dealer. He served as district attorney for eleven years while managing a private law practice as well as insurance and real estate businesses. He was not much of a crime buster. "

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"Whatever his motive, Dinis did not encourage the grand jury to get involved after the inquest. At the insistence of Foreman Leslie H. Leland, a pharmacist, the grand jury was reconvened in April 1970. But it was muzzled by Dinis' reluctance to press the investigation and by a court order prohibiting the jurors from summoning witnesses who had already testified at the inquest and from examining the inquest transcript. The grand jury quit in frustration, and Dinis declared: "The case is closed." "

this is more ridiculous than oj's trial

8/26/2009 9:32:10 PM

dirty dirty, i know.

but who needs a pocketbook when you have a kennedy?

8/26/2009 9:36:51 PM

Why worry about killing someone, when you're a Kennedy?

8/26/2009 9:39:03 PM

His Highness received 62% of the vote after leaving Mary Jo to die in 8 feet of water. You have to understand, the people in new england are smarter than the rest of us.

8/26/2009 9:48:18 PM

Just an FYI, when you trash someone right after they die, it doesn't make them look bad, it makes you look bad.

8/26/2009 10:08:39 PM

The thing is...

Jesse Helms really was a racist. At least at some point in his life. There's really no debating it.

All of you trying to make Kennedy an OMG MURDERER are retarded.

8/26/2009 10:11:15 PM

not retarded, just practical and aware of the travesty he got away with

8/26/2009 10:29:39 PM

dude, it was a tragedy, and a travesty that he got away with it, but he was not a murderer.

8/26/2009 10:36:45 PM

no more of a murderer than laura bush!

8/26/2009 10:39:10 PM

RIP Mary Jo Kopechne. it's a shame you couldn't take this piece of shit with you 40 years ago.

8/26/2009 11:04:39 PM

Only in America could we salute someone who bypassed life's difficulties and working for a living for the easy way out where he gained fame and fortune by accepting bribes and wasting valuable resources on niggers.

Long live TK.

8/26/2009 11:14:04 PM

Your last moments on earth should be filled with appreciation for life, not knowing you were wrong and that you have perpetuated wrong throughout the world.

Let his death be a moment for the liberals to reflect on their moral direction before they suffer from the same afflictions.

8/26/2009 11:47:43 PM

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"burn in hell"

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8/27/2009 1:17:47 AM

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"dude, it was a tragedy, and a travesty that he got away with it, but he was not a murderer."

Yeah, he just forgot to tell anyone about it for long enough to let her die in the car he was a murderer.

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"no more of a murderer than laura bush!"

considering that that one was actually an accident, with no evidence to the contrary, I don't see how. Face it, liberals are proud of a murdering senator. The same way they embrace the lying sack of shit Pelosi and the corrupt as hell Rangel.

By the way, I almost had a wreck yesterday laughing at the NPR interviews with people who were talking about TK, talking about how he "lived the working-class struggle." That was some good shit

8/27/2009 7:59:14 AM

^ They remind me of the emperor in the fairytale The Emperor's New Clothes.

8/27/2009 8:06:11 AM

Next time I want to murder someone, I am going to wait until they ask for a ride in front of witnesses, drive to a populated area, and flip the car into a lake with both of us still in it.

8/27/2009 9:20:02 AM

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"no more of a murderer than laura bush! "

Are you a mother fucking moron?

8/27/2009 9:46:55 AM

instead of Arlington, he should have a burial at sea in an Oldsmobile. it will be interesting to see the results of playing the sympathy card to keep the health care control bill from continuing its downward spiral.

8/27/2009 3:18:46 PM

^haha

8/27/2009 3:24:34 PM

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"Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys"

8/27/2009 3:33:04 PM

so when will I be able to watch news without him being mentioned?

8/27/2009 11:51:01 PM

if michael jackson is any example to worthless crooks getting too much airtime, then not any time soon

8/27/2009 11:53:52 PM

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"I can only hope more people are like this fine gentleman...rip sweet prince"

8/27/2009 11:56:06 PM