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Edward Kennedy (1932-2009)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

Editor's Note: If it were a matter of mere political disagreement, we would join the calls to strike a conciliatory tone and mourn the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy. But we do a disservice to him and the country to call him anything but what he was. Ted Kennedy was not a good man and we mourn the damage (or worse) he did both to individuals and to America.

"Our country has lost a great leader, who picked up the torch of his fallen brothers and became the greatest United States Senator of our time." --President Barack Obama, lamenting the death of Ted Kennedy

"No one has done more than Senator Kennedy to educate our children, care for our seniors and ensure equality for all Americans. Ted Kennedy's dream of quality health care for all Americans will be made real this year because of his leadership and his inspiration." --House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (Does she mean that Kennedy did more than the people who actually educate our children and care for our seniors?)

"Ted Kennedy's dream was the one for which the Founding Fathers fought and for which his brothers sought to realize. The liberal lion's mighty roar may now fall silent, but his dream shall never die." --Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) (Actually, the Founding Fathers fought against oppressive big government.)

"[Ted Kennedy was] the best senator, the best advocate you could hope for." --Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) (He was the best advocate -- unless your last name was Kopechne.)

Messiah complex: "We are God's partners in matters of life and death." --Barack Obama (Apparently Obama got a promotion since stating that abortion decisions were "above his paygrade...")

Say what?: "There is something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee weed up!" --Barack Obama

Clear as mud: "I think 'wee-wee'd up' is when people get nervous for no particular reason. ... This is an August pundit pattern. ...'Bed wetting' would be the more consumer-friendly term." --White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs explaining BO's "joke"

The log is his eye: "I know there's been a lot of misinformation in this debate, and there are some folks out there who are frankly bearing false witness." --Barack Obama, the master of bearing false witness

Cry us a river: "We need to understand that it is very, very hard for the president or anybody else to take on not just the Republican Party, that's the easy part -- to take on all of right-wing talk radio, which covers 90 percent of talk show hosts, a whole Fox network which is nothing more than an arm of the Republican Party and the Democrats got to think long term. Why is there not a progressive television network?" --Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on MSNBC, which is, well, a "progressive" network, laying the groundwork for the so-called Fairness Doctrine to make a comeback

Victimitis: "Part of what I feel is that one very successful minority is permissible, but when you see too many success stories, then some people get nervous. ... I don't think the media has acted in a racist way, but I have felt stereotyped at times." --New York Gov. David Paterson, who is black and using that fact to complain about being treated badly

UPRIGHT

"There is a lot one could say of Senator Kennedy -- positive from supporters, negative from critics. They say one should not speak ill of the dead. True. But I am of the view that one should not lie about the dead either." --political analyst Bill Bennett

"[Ted] Kennedy left the scene of a fatal accident for which he was at least partly responsible. Then he used his extraordinary power to get off, spending the rest of his career in pseudo-remorse, playing the most liberal of Senators. It was always an act to me, even when I agreed with him politically. This was not a life well lived." --author and screenwriter Roger L. Simon

"The American people must regain the ability to distinguish between wants and needs and must shed the ridiculous notion that government exists to provide either. Our Constitution -- drafted by men well acquainted with the abusive capacities of a centralized government -- limited the roles and responsibilities of the federal government in order to allow the principle of self-government to flourish in the new nation. Government exists to preserve and protect the sphere of civil freedom within which we can work to meet our needs and our wants. Government does not exist to provide them." --columnist Ken Connor

"With its stimulus, the Obama administration borrowed more money, and realized fewer economic benefits, than the government of any other major economy. Perhaps results would have been better had the stimulus been directed at the economy instead of at the 2010 campaign." --columnist David Frum

"What if America transcended race, and Barack Obama wasn't invited? The question comes to mind as cries of racism grow ever louder from Obama's supporters. No one should be surprised. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, liberal Democrats have to accuse their opponents of racism." --columnist Jonah Goldberg

"Barack Obama's escapes from his own past words, deeds and associations have been escapes worthy of Houdini. Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success. ... Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' -- and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest." --economist Thomas Sowell

"It's a mistake to think of the current legislation as a health-care reform bill. It is actually a bill for the formation of a massive health-care bureaucracy charged with the task of scheming endlessly to expand its own power. The only way to prevent this kind of free-floating grant of power to the bureaucracy is to prevent it from forming in the first place, by keeping government out of medicine. ...We don't want a modified or watered down version of this health-care bill. We want no version of this health-care bill and no new health-care bureaucracy." --columnist Robert Tracinski

DEZINFORMATSIA

Selling health care: "As with most of us, [Ted Kennedy's] final days were another object lesson in the necessity of good health care. He thought it should be available to everyone, and he worked to make that a reality until the end. Moving toward that goal would be the greatest tribute his fellow legislators could pay him." --The Washington Post, using Kennedy's death to push socialized medicine

From the sycophants: "Mr. Obama has continued a presidential tradition, what Thomas Jefferson called neology, making up a new word or giving new meaning to an old one. ... President Obama has introduced us to 'wee wee'd up.'" --CBS's Katie Couric on Obama's most recent bizarre crack ("Do you recall anyone in the media ever hailing Bush's 'misunderestimated' as advancing 'a presidential tradition'?" --Media Research Center's Brent Baker)

Slamming the protestors: "Instead of a multicultural tableau of beaming young idealists on screen, we see ugly scenes of mostly older and white malcontents, disrupting forums where others have come to actually learn something. Instead of hope, we get swastikas, death threats and T-shirts proclaiming 'Proud Member of the Mob.' President Obama has proven quicksilver instincts, but not in this case. You would think that a politician schooled in community organizing and the foul balls of a presidential campaign would be ready to squash this kind of nuttiness." --New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd

Wrong on so many levels: "The debate over the 'public option' in health care has been dismaying in many ways. Perhaps the most depressing aspect for progressives, however, has been the extent to which opponents of greater choice in health care have gained traction -- in Congress, if not with the broader public -- simply by repeating, over and over again, that the public option would be, horrors, a government program. Washington, it seems, is still ruled by Reaganism -- by an ideology that says government intervention is always bad, and leaving the private sector to its own devices is always good. Call me naïve, but I actually hoped that the failure of Reaganism in practice would kill it. It turns out, however, to be a zombie doctrine: even though it should be dead, it keeps on coming." --former Enron advisor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman

Everybody else is doing it: "We're the only industrialized democracy that doesn't cover every citizen. That is immoral. ...Every other industrialized democracy has done this through a government program." --Time Magazine's Mark Halperin

Sarcasm detector failure: "Here's one from Republican Congressman Wally Herger of California. At his town hall meeting some guy yelled out, bragging that he was quote, 'A proud right-wing terrorist.' To which the Congressman responded, 'Amen. God bless ya! Now there's a great American.' A great American. A guy who thinks it's okay, in this day and age, to call himself a right-wing terrorist. This is the dangerous edge, in which these people, including some elected officials are now dancing." --MSNBC's Chris "thrill up my leg" Matthews, too dense to understand that the citizen-speaker was mocking guys like ... well, Chris Matthews for falsely alleging common Americans are "right-wing terrorists"

Newspulper Headlines:

We Blame Global Warming: "Why Sun's Atmosphere Is 'So Darned Hot'" --Space.com

Commentary by Mary Jo Kopechne: "Kennedy Drive No Afternoon Delight" --Chicago Sun-Times

Jobs Hobbits Won't Do: "Shire Plans to Add 750 Mass. Jobs" --Boston Globe

Questions No One Is Asking: "Who, Exactly, Is Outraged at Michelle Obama's Shorts?" --Newsweek.com

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: "Cockroaches Future-Proofed Against Climate Change" --NewScientist.com,

Bottom Stories of the Day: "Obama's Day: Pushing Health Care Again" --USA Today Web site

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)

VILLAGE IDIOTS

Selling health care II: "My own hope is that [Ted Kennedy's] deep commitment to a comprehensive health plan in our country will be honored now by his contemporaries, by his peers, in the near future." --former President Jimmy Carter

One-term president?: "I have heard the president say that if making tough decisions in getting important things done that Washington has failed to do for decades means that he only lives in this house and makes those decisions for four years, he's quite comfortable." --White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs

They know what's good for us: "We could lose [the health care debate] because I don't think [Obama] he has been tough enough. ... He should get mad, stop [expletive] around. ... He just needs to drag [Americans] to it. Like I just said, they're stupid. Just drag them to this." --HBO's Bill Maher

Not so funny: "You know about the Taliban? Over here, we call them 'healthcare protesters.'" --"Late Show" host David Letterman

From the global village: "The powerful extreme right won't be happy with anything that diminishes their prerogatives in the slightest way. ...The extreme right hates him for being African-American and fights what the president does to improve the deteriorated image of [the U.S.] I don't have the slightest doubt that the racist right will do everything possible to wear him down, blocking his program to get him out of the game one way or another, at the least political cost." --Cuba's former Communist dictator Fidel Castro

Drooling on his chin: "I'm still in a stupor of stunned ecstasy that Obama won. And I approve of most everything he's done.... He is doing the best he can with the mess he inherited." --fake documentarian Michael Moore

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

"Eight years ago next month, Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists in two fuel-laden jetliners crashed into and collapsed the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Another jet with a full fuel load tore into the Pentagon in Washington. A fourth crashed in a field in Somerset County, [Pennsylvania,] believed to have been brought down by brave passengers who refused to let terrorist bastards hit another Washington target. Nearly 3,000 men, women and children died. Many were incinerated and vaporized in the infernos. And the United States Department of Justice now is actively considering prosecuting Central Intelligence Agency employees and those with whom the CIA contracted -- for scaring terrorist suspects. God forbid that those charged with bringing the 9/11 terrorists -- and those involved in other terrorist acts -- to justice and/or with eliciting information about future terrorist plans might have used necessarily nasty tactics to do so. Attorney General Eric Holder, who would rather prosecute those defending America than, say, New Black Panther Party members intimidating voters with clubs in Philadelphia, vows that no information will be made public that would compromise the work of the CIA. There, don't you feel better? Never mind the chilling effect of prosecuting those who did the job they were charged to do. Perhaps the Obama administration would like to take terrorist suspects to Starbucks for, what the heck, a nice Caffe Misto. God help these fools. God help the U.S.A." --Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

SHORT CUTS

"Liberals think they can improve the problem of a partial monopoly by turning it into a total monopoly. That's what single-payer health care is: 'Single payer' means 'single provider.' It's the famous liberal two-step: First screw something up, then claim that it's screwed up because there's not enough government oversight (it's the free market run wild!), and then step in and really screw it up in the name of 'reform.'" --columnist Ann Coulter

"I know that everybody likes to poke fun at California -- but I can tell you right now that despite all of its problems, California remains one of the best places in the world to build a successful small business. All you have to do is start with a successful large business." --Rep. Tom McClintock

"When the leader of the free world is complaining about a posting on the former governor of Alaska's Facebook page, he's got problems." --columnist Chris Stirewalt

"For Obama, government health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture in which all elections and most public discourse will be conducted on Democrat terms. It's no surprise that the president can't make a coherent economic or medical argument for Obamacare because that's not what it's about -- and for all his cool he can't quite disguise that. Apropos a new poll, the Associated Press reports that Americans 'are losing faith in Barack Obama.' 'Losing faith'? Oh, no! Fall on your knees and beseech the One: 'Give me a sign, O Lord!'" --columnist Mark Steyn

"The Angry Left is angry at the president of the United States. That makes it official. Nothing changed when Barack Obama became president." --Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto

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Veritas vos Liberabit -- Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot's editors and staff.

(Please pray for our Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world, and for their families -- especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)