Rep.Patrick Kennedy Announces He Will Not Seek Re-election (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, February 11, 2010, 10:52 PM
Another one bites the dust…
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) will not seek re-election:
Hat Tip K. Solomon
Ken Pittman adds: “The congressional clown has seen the insider polling and is pulling out of next fall’s election and is jumping ship on a bid for re-election according to the Boston Herald.”
The end of an era… 2011 will be the first year in over 50 years that the US Congress has not had at least one Kennedy in office.
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BuryMeInAGeorgeOrwellTShirt commented:
He should have been put into jail long ago.
Nobama commented:
Good riddance to another kennedy.
Jane commented:
I can’t believe I may live to see the Death of Camelot. It’s about time. Our country should have never had “royalty”.
Mark in Kansas commented:
The boy mentioned standing on other people’s shoulders. Sure enough. Shoulders, necks, hands, anything he could stand on. He’s a Kennedy. The Kennedys didn’t make their way to the top of the heap by treating folks decent, they did it in the time honored tradition of criminals everywhere, by trampling upon others.
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Winston commented:
good news
sybilll commented:
Rumor is he will move to Mass to challenge Scott Brown in 2 years. Bring it! Brown can let you ride shotgun, when he drives you to your next rehab!
vargas commented:
I’ll drink to this news!!!! Cheers!!! Bottoms Up!!!
lyle commented:
“Now having spent two decades in politics, my life is taking a new direction, and I will not be a candidate for re-election this year…’
No doubt the ominous polls were a factor, and this looks like a bad year for Democrats.
But is it possible that Ted Kennedy’s death was also a factor? Patrick may no longer need to work for a living. He can get high, chase women, crash cars, and generally behave like a frat boy for the rest of his life.
Daddy would have disapproved, but Daddy’s dead.
C-Christian Soldier commented:
“Camelot is officially over.”
Hooooo Rhaaaaa!!!
Good Riddance!!!!
C-CS
Jo commented:
Good. Better to jump ship why he can.
Insufficiently Sensitive commented:
Camelot, the faux ‘royalty’ of the Kennedy family, was a wholly-created property of the mainstream media. The paparazzi could not make enough of the glamor of this precious little tribe, and the narrative persisted from the 60s until Ted’s passing.
Now it looks like the MSM is following his exit. At least they are losing the influence they had to create such legends and influence such political tides – all liberal, though today’s sordid media would see JFK and RFK as near-conservatives. Teddy shoved us way left by his glib liberal guilt, and it will take years to recover.
May the common sense of the tea parties give a kick start to the long repair process.
pamlinson commented:
America can sleep a little more comfortable tonight.
pamlinson commented:
Now if we can just get rid of the Clintons.
bg commented:
++
there’s that “social justice” whine again..
”I am certain nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after the mirage
of social justice.”
“I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term ’social justice’.”
~Friedrich A. Hayek
[standard disclaimer: source Wikipedia]
==
newton commented:
The writing’s on the wall. He saw it.
Teddy's SEARCH+RESCUE commented:
OUR FOUNDER was so proud of Patrick – http://www.FATBOY.cc
Opus #6 commented:
BYEEEE!
IN MEMORY OF MARY JO commented:
KennedyCare 2.0 – NEVER FORGET http://www.inlibertyandfreedom.com/mjk.htm
Where was the Justice here?
jerryl commented:
about time and like pamlinson #16 said if we can only get the clintons to get lost oh and obamao as well
HANOI JOHN KERRY commented:
I’ll be doing a http://www.LIVESHOT.cc on CNN later today.
Iconoclast commented:
May the body politic continue with this self-administered enema until all the leftist loons are sinking in the settling ponds with the rest of the excreta.
Kenny Solomon commented:
I had to leave a note on that YouTube page………in my usual tactful manner, of course. Surprised nobody blasted me (yet).
“Whoa, a clean and sober moment…… I’m actually impressed……. Really….. Finally admitting the “social justice” scam was the clincher for me though….. Y’all ain’t a-gonna be missed whatsoever….. We’ll keep our Constitution intact, thank you very much……. See ya, Sparky.”
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Cheers !
Kenny Solomon
Glad I’m not a Kennedy.
Bill Mitchell commented:
You know, I’m still trying to figure out what Camelot was.
The Kennedy Matriarch made his money running illegal booze. Then JFK barely got elected and had multiple affairs while in office. He also oversaw the Bay of Pigs fiasco. His presidency was terribly short to be held up as some paragon of presidential virtue and competence.
But seriously, what was Camelot and why should I want it?
mike191 commented:
Step one for his detox program.
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cranialoutlet commented:
Larry Kudlow said something last night (Thursday 2-11) on his CNBC show that needs to be repeated because it represents a strong current in the political climate we are witnessing right now: “Anti-Incumbency”
Senators and Congressman who have be re-elected to office for decades have created the bubble of beltway life that is causing a great disconnect between D.C. and the greater domestic, US personality. I think, as Kudlow obviously does, that every time a republican or more appropriately a democrat incumbent is portrayed as someone who has been sheltered from main street America by living inside the beltway life for too long, that incumbent will lose. Bush II began to suffer from the unhinged “Bush-hatred-syndrome” at the end of his second term, but that frustration emanating from the left was very similar to the “anti-incumbency” backlash we saw in Massachusetts recently. The real question in Massachusetts, which would have been equally telling, would have been if Ted Kennedy would have lost to Scott Brown while he was still alive. Regardless, MA voters pushed against the incumbent nature of the national democratic party machinery and won. MA voters pushed against the democratic majority in both houses of Congress as well as the democratic White House. In November, that same democratic leadership will be the incumbent majority and as such will become a major target for frustrated voters.
In 2008, Democrats rode a wave of Bush-hatred, which was composed of a flavor of anti-incumbency that included a disdain for the second, 8 year Bush family administration of the era, and they rode this wave all the way to majorities in both houses. In 2010, growing from the center of American politics, that same disdain exists for incumbent candidates and this time, that disdain is coming from informed, middle class Americans who don’t like the results thus far from Obama, and have no allegiance to either party, so long as one of the parties returns to directly serving our national interests. The masses of informed, independent voters can easily counter uninformed, left leaning Obama followers at the polls. And, as fast spreading trends often do, the anti-incumbency backlash is something that will spread like fire across all areas of the American political spectrum.
squeaky commented:
a comment on fox morning show about kennedy
interest in charity/non-profit work. maybe he
could asked cousin joe for a few leads…. his
lil’ gig with the non-profit citizens oil seems to
work out well…from wiki we have:
[ calling for the federal government and major oil companies to use portions of royalties from oil and gas extracted from federal lands and waters to help low-income families with the high price of energy.[35] As of 2007, Kennedy’s salary was $575,000 per year.[36] [37]
[edit] Citizens Energy and Venezuela]
Chris Vehr commented:
He’s too lazy and stupid to consider the inside polling. People like Patrick Kennedy are exactly who need to be eliminated from the political scene. This weak-willed Catholic does and says things that he truly does not understand. His inherited arrogance causes him to question the direction of his own Church!
Another fool by the wayside! Best news I’ve heard in a long, long time.
myna commented:
New direction where? Fun-filled life with vodka?
squeaky commented:
entitlement fever….how many successful businesses stay successful by keeping their loveable deadwood members far away.
Living in The Twilight Zone commented:
Wow! You mean no more generations of bad hair in gubmint?
Now, if Jenjis John Kerry would only do the same thing.
Militant Conservative commented:
It is not so much anti incumbent but get rid of all who do not embrace the constitution and its ideals. that can be either Rinos, Dem’s or any other persuation. The Tea Party is on and moving with surgical precision to remove the cancer. We give direct to candidates and bypass the power brokers (RNC &DNC). A whole new age of governance is upon us. Just in the nick of time too I might add.
Living in The Twilight Zone commented:
Camelot, the faux ‘royalty’ of the Kennedy family, was a wholly-created property of the mainstream media. The paparazzi could not make enough of the glamor of this precious little tribe, and the narrative persisted from the 60s until Ted’s passing.
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Bootlegging, adultery, boozing, corruption, divorce, rape, manslaughter, etc.; yet, Sarah Palin and her family are supposed to be the ones who are white-trash!
wilbur commented:
Shouldn`t 2010 be recorded in the history books as the end of the Kennedy`s?
Finally a “like me because I am rich” dynasty gone.
avery commented:
Great Day,for America,maybe John Kerry,will soon to be gone also.
firstHat commented:
I’m sorry, but when did it become common to decline a political race with a video Hallmark card complete with sound track?
I may vomit.
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
My Kennedy toast – “Up yours Paddy!”
Patriot Act commented:
Someone asked “what Camelot was”. Camelot was the fawning state-run media unabashedly propping up another Democrat administration, just like the one we have now. The love affair with Obama is Camelot all over again, although perhaps a bit worse. This shameless bias in the news media is nothing new. It goes back at least as far as the 60′s, which is as far back as my first-hand memory goes.
Susan Skinner commented:
Spineless wimp. Devoid of moral character.