3/12/2009

14 Responses to “It Pays to Be a Kennedy”

1. Are they building Teddy’s Place? A bar/library out on the Vineyard for quiet reflection and well made cocktails?

   Joe (17aeff) — 3/12/2009 @ 7:36 am

   
   

2. And it’s good to be the King.

   Karl (f07e38) — 3/12/2009 @ 7:58 am

   
   

3. I lived on Cape Cod for 3 years. People come to Hyannis expecting this quaint CC town, and get a surprise. Hyannis is pretty bucolic, outside of the 2-3 block wide Main St. section. The Kennedy Compound isn’t actually in “town” but out on the shore road in Hyannisport. There’s a wall on the road w/ a gate and that’s all there pretty much is to see from the land. I’ve seen the place from the water, and it’s actually nondescript as country estates go.

   The prettiest towns on the Cape are Chatham, Dennis, P-Town and Sandwich.

   Techie (9c008e) — 3/12/2009 @ 8:07 am

   
   

4. We’re all paying for the early Teddy support of The One.

   AD - RtR/OS (6b685f) — 3/12/2009 @ 10:49 am

   
   

5. Greetings:

   But not a nickel for Chappaquidick.

   11B40 (f3ffcb) — 3/12/2009 @ 11:28 am

   
   

6. Kennedy memorial – a large money pit where billions of dollars go to be wasted.

   Perfectsense (0922fa) — 3/12/2009 @ 11:31 am

   
   

7. It doesn’t cost that much to dump an Oldsmobile upside down into a reflecting pool with a service bar serving bootleg liquor from Canada.

   PCD (ed31e3) — 3/12/2009 @ 12:19 pm

   
   

8. I’ll bet they are finally going to put guard rail along side that old bridge, or maybe actually build a real bridge?

   or

   Maybe get that wind farm out of the bay? It can be called the big blow hard and dedicated to teddy in remembrance!

   TC (0b9ca4) — 3/12/2009 @ 1:08 pm

   
   

9. I find this little disconnect amusing:

   “These funds will create jobs that are desperately needed, and will provide lasting benefits for all our citizens long into the future,” Kennedy said in statement accompanying a list of earmarks.

   President Barack Obama signed the bill which he described as imperfect. He said it must signal an “end to the old way of doing business.”

   Dana (137151) — 3/12/2009 @ 2:25 pm

   
   

10. Mary Joe Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

    Dmac (49b16c) — 3/12/2009 @ 2:36 pm

    
    

11. “The U.S. Senate is one of our forefathers’ most brilliant democratic inventions,” Kennedy said Tuesday in a statement. “… I believe it is critical to have a place where citizens can go to learn first-hand about the Senate’s important roles in our system of government.”

    There is both an Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate, and a Kennedy Senate Institute. This is so beyond stupid!

    Wesson (3ab0b8) — 3/12/2009 @ 3:12 pm

    
    

12. Somewhere, Daniel Webster and Henry Clay are shaking their heads about this “greatest Senator”.

    Techie (9c008e) — 3/12/2009 @ 3:53 pm

    
    

13. What, no pork for a Hyannisport branch of the Hazelden Center?

    daleyrocks (5d22c0) — 3/13/2009 @ 2:20 pm

    
    

14. I mean it’s not like the Kennedys are billionaires or anything, or would get tax write offs if they funded these projects themselves. Perhaps if Congress had attached a Massachussetts Bay windmill farm condition on the funding (the Kennedys will withdraw their opposition to the windmill energy farm in exchange for the funding) then at least something positive would have come out of this shameless funding. Anyway, I don’t see why the gov’t should be funding the Kennedys when they get such free publicity already, only Harry Byrd has more projects named after him. When Reagan starts getting parity in funding I might change my mind about future projects, but that may be decades.

    eaglewingz08 (7c4da0) — 3/14/2009 @ 7:36 am