Teddy may be missed, but not as senator

Article 8-31-09

Remembering the real Sen. Ted Kennedy


by Donnie Boston
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Aug. 31, 2009

I knew it was coming any day.

That was the passing of Ted Kennedy. The hint came to me when he was unable to attend Eunice Kennedy Shriver's funeral. She was his closest sister.

So it came last Tuesday night while I was asleep. A text message had awoken me, indicating Ted had passed on. It was a sad moment indeed, but not shocking. So I stood up the rest of that night not being able to go back to sleep. In fact, I even shed a few tears remembering the human being Ted was. I was only being human myself. But that is where I drew the line.

A human being he was, but a good man as a senator he wasn't. Just because Ted died, I refuse to call Ted Kennedy a good man like the liberal media had called him during last week's marathon coverage of his death. I will not do it. But at the same time, if I had a magic wand, I would have went to his home immediately to wave it over his head to cure him. This is where you separate the issues from a person's life.

Indeed Ted was nice. He always was willing to help the needy, even if they were beating the system and even if they were in this country illegally. The problem was he did it all with our hard-earned cash.

He was always a tough talker on crime and wanted to enforce the laws, except the ones he and his own family committed.

Just early last week when Ted was in his deathbed, the embattled and struggling Boston Globe printed a story about how he wanted to change a Massachusetts law that would give our governor power to fill his vacancy seat in the Senate. The problem was the Globe never reported on how Kennedy stated that it would be the undemocratic thing to do when Gov. Romney suggested it back in 2004. You see, Romney was a Republican.

Another area where people got upset with Ted was his institution of the Immigration Reform Act in 1965, where he promised his fellow senators that it would not lead to a massive onslaught of immigrants in this country. Today illegals are amongst us everywhere, in which they have become a major contributor in making taxpayers pay a lot more to keep our country afloat.

I can write a lot more of the wrong doings of Ted Kennedy, but I won't. In fact, I don't stand alone on how others felt about the liberal lion on what he has done. The barrage of hated emails that were sent to me regarding the senator were astounding. Emails like, “Donnie, I thought you hated Kennedy, so why do you feel so bad for him now that he is dead? I don't for what he has done!”

I say, I never voted for Ted and never liked him for what he stood for, but I never wished him brain cancer either.

Now there's one more area that I should mention before I call it quits:

During last week's marathon coverage of Ted Kennedy's death, did you notice the words scrolling at the bottom of your tube continuously? Each year flashed indicating the memories of Ted's life and what he and his family went through. What about the year when he took an innocent life after he drove his car off a bridge? I never seen it. Maybe the liberal media might have missed it in error?

While everyone will miss Ted for all the “good” things he done, an innocent Mary Jo has been long forgotten.

As a human being, may you R.I.P., Ted.

It was the scandal that shook the world. In a July 1969 file photo,
Sen. Ted Kennedy’s car is pulled from water at the Chappaquiddick
bridge a day after his crash. The body of Mary Kopechne was
found in the rear seat.

In a July 25, 1969 file photo, Sen. Edward Kennedy is escorted
by troopers as he leaves court in Edgartown, Mass., after
pleading guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of the
accident which killed aide Mary Jo Kopechne.

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Hacks flock when Teddy calls

Article 8-24-09

Ted Kennedy flip-flops over senate seat


By Howie Carr
DNN Staff- EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Aug. 24, 2009

Let us now consider the State House friends of Teddy Kennedy.

OK, so the senior senator’s scheme to keep “his” Senate seat in the family is probably a non-starter. After all, it’s too late for Teddy to provide the customary “gratuities” to the sleazy solons who in 2004 rolled over for him on the bill that took away the then-GOP governor’s ability to fill a vacant Senate seat.

You know, the bill that Teddy demanded passage of, but which he now claims “concerns me deeply,” because it’s so, uh, undemocratic.

What sort of reprobate reps would vote for such palpably corrupt legislation? Let’s go down the 2004 roll call on a proposed amendment to Teddy’s sordid bill. It would have given Republican Mitt Romney exactly the same power to appoint an interim senator that Kennedy now believes a Democratic governor should have.

The amendment was defeated, 104-44. Below and in our photo array is a partial list of some of the usual Democrat suspects, and I do mean suspects, who followed Teddy’s orders to deprive the people of their “continuity of representation,” as Kennedy now puts it:

Jim Marzilli of Arlington, later elected to the Senate, now awaiting trial in Middlesex County on charges of harassing or molesting four women in Lowell last year.

Brian Dempsey of Haverhill: Arrested in 2003 for drunken driving, two years after his mother called 911 when Dempsey and his brother got into a barroom brawl in her living room.

Robert Coughlin of Dedham: Not charged, but named in the DiMasi indictment as filing bills at the speaker’s behest that led to the $57,000 in bribes paid to DiMasi. Coughlin served as a job-application reference for a Turnpike toll taker who was charged with murdering, dismembering, then cooking the body parts of a cocaine dealer. Succeeded Felon Finneran as lobbyist for biotech industry.

Mark Howland of New Bedford. Defeated after one term in the House, then got into the business of selling wind turbines that didn’t work. Said one customer: “He’s a crook.” Ordered to repay $488,000 to fleeced customers.

Robert Spellane of Worcester: Found guilty of diverting $50,000 from his campaign account for personal use. Dumped his wife last year, after which his 28-year-old girlfriend was hired to work for a State House lobbyist. Recently sent out a letter of apology to his constituents, then days later got into a shouting match with his ex-wife and ex-brother-in-law at a Little League game over $19.

John Rogers of Norwood: Fined $30,000 by the Ethics Commission after an investigation into a summer home in East Falmouth Rogers claimed he owned with one of his campaign consultants, a bank president. Rogers once compared the felony conviction of still another crooked House speaker to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

I’m out of space, with no room to name at least six more Kennedy stooges in the House who’ve been bagged for nonpayment of various taxes, not to mention two others fined by the Ethics Commission for accepting improper gifts from lobbyists. But you get the picture.

When it comes to Ted Kennedy’s Svengali-like control over the Legislature, remember the old saying: birds of a feather . . .

Tom Petrolati, Thomas ‘Felon’ Finneran,
Gene O’Flaherty, Sal DiMasi, Marie St. Fleur, and
Paul Kujawski, are just some of the Kennedy
Klan who deprived the people of Massachusetts.


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All the wrong moves on health care

Article 8-17-09

Majority disapprove Obamacare


by Bill O'Reilly
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Aug. 17, 2009

Can you believe this health-care chaos? What a tremendous story: A charismatic president puts all his currency behind remodeling America’s health-care system and, at this point, is getting his back pocket kicked.

A recent Rasmussen poll has 53 percent of Americans opposing President Obama’s health-care vision and just 42 percent supporting it. Also, a whopping 44 percent of voters strongly oppose Obamacare, while only 26 percent strongly support the plan.

In response, the president traveled to Portsmouth, N.H., this week for a town hall meeting in front of a mostly friendly crowd. He told the folks there that AARP supports his reform plan. About 10 minutes later, AARP issued a press release saying, uh, not so fast, Mr. President. We do not support any specific health-care plan at this time.

Asked about this later, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the president did not mean anything “untoward.” With all due respect, I believe the issue is “untrue” not “untoward.”

Also in New Hampshire, 11-year-old Julia Hall asked this question: “I saw a lot of signs outside saying mean things about reforming health care. How do kids know what is true, and why do people want a new system that can help more of us?”

The president responded smoothly about bad health-care “rumors” and why his plan is worthy. It all sounded great.

But then it was reported that young Julia is the daughter of Kathleen Manning Hall, who ran the Massachusetts Women for Obama organization during the campaign. Uh-oh. Does the word “plant” come to mind?

Considering that Obama has described some health-care protesters as disingenuous ideologues, you would think the president’s team would avoid having disingenuous questioners at town hall meetings. You would think.

All of this points to one thing: There is a serious breakdown in Obama’s health-care message. The White House is reeling under falling poll numbers and intense public displays of hostility. And the administration’s response to that? This week, Gibbs said this to Matt Lauer: “I think we all have something to lose, Matt, if we let cable television come to town hall meetings and kill health-care reform for another year, and put the special interests back in charge.”

To which “cable television” is Gibbs referring? CNN and MSNBC are largely supportive of the president, and I don’t think Spike TV is in play here. So he must be slamming Fox News. Is that smart?

The endgame here is that the Obama administration is sorely mishandling the health-care debate. Attacking critics and planting favorable questions is not the remedy for fixing health-care confusion. If there is a wise-up pill available, the administration needs it fast.

Obama speaks at a town hall meeting in
Portsmouth, NH, trying to sell to the
American people, Obamacare.
(DNN Staff photo)


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Hey Gov., Howie got you covered

Article 8-9-09

Tips given to Patrick on hip replacement


by Howie Carr
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Aug. 9, 2009

Would you like to borrow my cane, Governor?

Finally, Deval Patrick and I share some common ground, to coin a phrase - a hip replacement at Mass. General. I had mine July 10, and he’s having his Sept. 1.

Cynics are already snickering about the governor’s announcement. They’re saying Deval must really be tanking in the polls. First he buys a puppy, now he’s checking into the hospital. One thing I can tell you, Deval, don’t count on the operation giving you any bump in the polls.

This is a tough crowd we’re both working here. They’re going to say the same thing about your bum hip as they said about mine - I don’t know how he wrecked it, but it wasn’t from any heavy lifting.

Seriously, Mass. General is a great hospital, and they were wonderful to me. I couldn’t have asked for any better treatment. But let me give you a few tips before you check in.

Of course they’re going to put you under for the operation, but you’ll probably have a choice - general anesthesia or spinal. I recommend spinal. In the recovery room, I got to watch my fellow patients who’d gone with the general. They were slack-jawed, glassy-eyed, like a Massachusetts judge leaving the 99 in Woburn after a “couple of glasses of wine,” if you know what I mean.

If you go with the spinal, though, you snap back fast. An hour after they wheel you out of the OR, you’ll be ready to issue another blistering fact-free denunciation of the Cambridge Police Department as “every black man’s nightmare.”

After the operation, you will be in pain, so they’ll put you on the morphine drip for a while. You get what looks like a remote control, and every five minutes or so, a red light goes on and you can give yourself another dose. After a while it gets to be automatic, like the Legislature raising taxes.

The food at Mass. General is decent enough, but during your four days there, you’re going to have a problem I didn’t face. Lt. Gov. Tim Murray is going to stop by for a visit - probably right around lunchtime, if I know the Pillsbury Doughboy. Be sure to order two puddings - make that three.

My co-workers at DNN sent me a ham. If Tiny Tim brings you some eats, I have two words for you: Food taster.

Post-operative physical therapy: very, very important, as I’m sure you’ve already been told. You’ll be given a regimen, and you should do it two or three times a day. Remember, though, the physical therapists want you to work on raising your leg, not the tolls and the fees at the RMV.

Every few hours, a nurse will ask you about your pain level, on a scale of one to 10. Always exaggerate - and I shouldn’t have to explain why. But considering your statement Wednesday night about the “chronic pain,” you’ve already figured out the play.

Which brings me to one final point. When you check out, they’re going to give you a prescription for some painkillers, probably Percocets. But you can do better, Deval, yes you can.

You’re the governor, dammit. Make ’em give you the Oxys.

Howie Carr, shown with a cane, says
he couldn't wait to get out of his hospital
bed to begin writing about those hacks
again. (DNN Staff photo)


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Just another dandy of a free-pass given to Obama

Article 8-3-09

Beer Summit nothing more than diversion


by Donnie Boston
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Aug. 3, 2009

“I don't know the facts, but I do know Cambridge Police acted stupidly.”

Could you imagine if this was all reversed? Let's say, the arresting officer was black and the intruder was white. And, let's say, many of our most recent presidents made such a comment. I would believe the impeachment process would have been well underway by now. “I never had sex with that woman,” Bill Clinton ought to know. He almost got the boot for lying as you remember.

But, as usual, this was nothing more than another free-pass given to Obama. It has become quite common now. You remember all the issues that pertained to him when he was running for office? They were the kind of issues that would have sunk any candidate.

The most recent one involved Obama's comment regarding the Cambridge Police arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Gates. It was a response from a question that should have been “no comment.” Instead it turned out to be the biggest blunder a president has ever made during an “address to the nation” speech.

What a question to ask when Obama's entire speech was supposed to be about health care. I'm sure you've heard of those “plant” questions, where the president wants a reporter to bring up an issue so he can talk about it? The only problem was Obama's little comment about the issue backfired on him big time.

Have you seen his latest poll numbers? He was at 62 percent when he came into office, now he's at 48 according to the latest Rasmussen poll. And his latest blunder sure didn't help him by far.

In fact, he ended up throwing a Beer Summit between the parties involved to ease racial tensions.

But to me, it was nothing more than a diversion from the real truth. And the truth remains that the American people realized that they elected a racist for a president. You didn't know the facts, Mr. President, yet you say the Cambridge Police acted stupidly? Is this because you're good friends with Mr. Gates and that he's black? Even a person with a well below average mind could figure this one out, I think?

And how about those bias media outlets?

While I was watching the weather guy on Channel 7, he said we got to go and that he would be right back. I'm sure he even got shocked because he was never able to come back to complete his forecast. Instead the footage remained all about Obama's Beer Summit diversion, which didn't even include any audio. Only the play-by-play was available from about a half of football field away.

After it was all over, the bias media went to work in backing Obama, of course, with the only exception being Fox News. Just like I do, they also tell it like it is.

Did you hear what Gov. Patrick said about the entire situation?

Here's another comment for the books: “People have the right to yell in their own homes,” says the governor. No, it wasn't because Gates was being arrested for dis-orderly conduct towards a cop. Instead it was all about race with Patrick as usual.

Like governor like president, with both putting race over law enforcement officers. What does this tell you?

America is-ah changing!

LIQUID DINNER: Vice President Joe Biden,
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Sgt. James Crowley
and President Obama, from left, meet
over beers at the White House this past
Thursday. (DNN Staff photo)

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