Ted Kennedy With The Controversial Neck Brace July 19,1969

Saturday is the 39th anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne on Chappaquidick Island.  A day that Mass. Senator Ted Kennedy would rather forget.

“I found it hard to believe the Senator had been in a major automobile accident. His face bore no traces of any marks. He never sat down or appeared in any kind of physical discomfort. If he had been injured, in shock, or confused, nothing of it lingered in our meeting, to my observation.”

- Police Chief Dominick Arena -

The day that Ted Kennedy got away with manslaughter.

“the most brilliant cover-up ever achieved in a nation where investigative procedures are well developed and where the principles of equal justice prevail, at least during some of those moments where people are watching.”

~ The Last Kennedy by Robert Sherrill

On July 25, seven days after the incident, Kennedy entered a plea of guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury. He received a sentence of two months in jail, which was suspended, and lost his driving license for one year.

Later that day he announced on television that it was “indefensible that he had not reported the incident to police immediately.

He explained his behavior:

“ I was overcome, I’m frank to say, by a jumble of emotions – grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock. ”

He denied that he had been engaged in “immoral conduct” with Kopechne, or that he had been driving under the influence of alcohol. He wondered openly “whether some awful curse actually did hang over all the Kennedys”.

The Liberal MSM continues to adore this Lion of the Left:

Kennedy was selected by Time as one of “America’s 10 Best Senators”; the magazine noted that he had “amassed a titanic record of legislation affecting the lives of virtually every man, woman and child in the country” and that “by the late 1990s, the liberal icon had become such a prodigious cross-aisle dealer that Republican leaders began pressuring party colleagues not to sponsor bills with him”.

I respectfully disagree.

t/b: Michelle Malkin

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Reid & Pelosi

The Democrat party controlled congress has reached a record low approval rating.  Will the Pelosi-Reid partnership continue for another 2 years?  Is the electorate still asleep?

From Gallup:

Congress’ job approval rating has dropped five percentage points over the past month, from 19% in June to 14% in July, making the current reading the lowest congressional job approval rating in the 34-year Gallup Poll history of asking the question. The previous low was 18%, last reached in May.

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The 75% currently disapproving of Congress is just shy of the record-high 78% in March 1992.

These results, from a July 10-13 Gallup Poll, follow 18 months of dismal job approval ratings for Congress, during which approval has usually registered below 30%, and has averaged only 25%.

Still, the 14% approval rating is extraordinary. Approval of Congress has fallen below 20% only six times in the 34 years Gallup has measured it. Including the latest reading, four of those have come in the past year: in July, June, and May 2008, and in August 2007. The two additional readings were from March 1992 (in the midst of the House bank check-kiting scandal) and June 1979 (during an energy crisis that resulted in surging gas prices and long gas lines), when either 18% or 19% of Americans approved of the job Congress was doing.

The latest Rasmussen poll shows that President Bush has a low approval rating of 33% (twice that of Congress’ approval).

For the week ending July 13, just 33% of Americans say they approve of the way that George W. Bush is performing his job as President.

t/b: Michelle Malkin

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Senator Ted Kennedy will undergo surgery for a brain tumor at 9 am today (6/2/80). The surgery is expected to last 6 Hours. The operation will be performed at Duke University Medical Center.

AP Reports:

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will undergo surgery Monday at Duke University Medical Center for his cancerous brain tumor, his office said.

The 76-year-old senator was diagnosed last month with a malignant glioma, an especially lethal type of brain tumor. A statement from the Massachusetts Democrat’s office said he would be operated on Monday morning in Durham, N.C., by Dr. Allan Friedman, followed by chemotherapy and radiation. Anthony Coley, a Kennedy spokesman, said the surgery is expected to begin around 9 a.m.

“I am deeply grateful to the people of Massachusetts and to my friends, colleagues and so many others across the country and around the world who have expressed their support and good wishes as I tackle this new and unexpected health challenge,” Kennedy said in the statement. “I am humbled by the outpouring and am strengthened by your prayers and kindness.”

He expects to remain at the North Carolina facility for one week to recuperate and then will begin further treatments at Massachusetts General Hospital and start chemotherapy.

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Update:

The surgery was successful.

“I am pleased to report that Senator Kennedy’s surgery was successful and accomplished our goals,” Dr. Allan Friedman said in a statement after a 3 1/2-hour operation at Duke University’s Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.

After the surgery, Kennedy told his wife, Vicki, “I feel like a million bucks,” an aide to the senator said.

Friedman, Duke’s chief of neurosurgery, did not specify how much of the tumor he was able to remove. He called the operation “the first step” in a treatment plan for the 76-year-old senator from Massachusetts, head of America’s most fabled political family.

“After a brief recuperation, he will begin targeted radiation at Massachusetts General Hospital and chemotherapy treatment,” Friedman said.

Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor called a glioma, a type of tumor that usually kills within three years, after suffering a seizure on May 17.

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Ted Kennedy was airlifted to Boston after an apparent stroke. Word has it that the Senator is in serious condition.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts was hospitalized in Boston Saturday after suffering stroke-like symptoms, according to a knowledgeable official.There was no immediate word on his condition.

The official who provided the information declined to be identified by name, citing the sensitivity of the events.

Hyannis Fire Lt. Bill Rex told the AP a 911 call came in from the Kennedy compound at 8:19 a.m. EDT A male was transported to Cape Cod Hospital and was transferred by medflight at 10:10 a.m. from Barnstable Municipal Airport to Massachusetts General Hospital.

Kennedy, 76, has been in the Senate since election in 1962, filling out the term won by his brother, John F. Kennedy.

Note: Mary Jo Kopechne was silent on this news.

t/b: Sister Toldja

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