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Senator Ted Kennedy: Hypocrite extraordinaire part II
First he did it to Justice Sam Alito during his confirmation hearings, now he’s doing it to another Bush judicial nominee:
Just six months after quitting the all-male social club to which he belonged for 50 years, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is questioning one of President Bush’s nominees to the federal bench about his membership in an all-male dining club.
“What is your reason for failing to resign from the club any earlier than February 2, 2006?” Mr. Kennedy demanded in writing of Oklahoma lawyer Jerome A. Holmes, nominated to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Documents provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee and obtained by The Washington Times show that Mr. Holmes belonged to the Men’s Dinner Club of Oklahoma City but quit after expressing interest in becoming a federal judge.
Mr. Holmes told the committee in writing that he never perceived the dining club to harbor any bias toward women but he resigned to clear up any appearances of impropriety.
“Its membership consisted of widely respected business, community and government leaders, including at least two judges of Oklahoma’s courts of last resort,” he explained to Mr. Kennedy. “I recognized in February 2006 that some might perceive the Men’s Dinner Club as being an improper organization of the kind discussed above. That was unacceptable to me.”
In January, Mr. Kennedy quit the Owl Club after The Washington Times revealed his continued membership in the fraternitylike organization for Harvard University’s select male students and alumni.
Mr. Kennedy’s ties to the Owl Club came to light after he interrogated Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. over his association with Concerned Alumni of Princeton, a group founded to combat campus liberalism at Princeton University.
Judge Alito’s affiliation “with an organization that fought the admission of women into Princeton calls into question his appreciation of the need for full equality in this country,” the Massachusetts Democrat said during the January hearings.
Mr. Kennedy’s Owl Club was booted off Harvard’s campus in 1984 for its refusal to allow women to join.
What is your reason for failing to resign from the all-male Owl’s Club any earlier than January 2006, Senator Kennedy? Didn’t want to look like a hypocrite?
You don’t have to answer. We already know it.
Hat tip: Captain Ed
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In illustrated dictionaries, Kennedy’s picture is the very first under “hypocrite.” He’s there, also, under a lot of other words.
I just don’t know how people keep defending these guys. It is one hypocratical action after another, and libs just swoon after them. Isn’t this the Senator that is suppose to be all about women’s rights?? These guys floor me. It simply amazes me how Dems keep these idiots in office. – Lorica
Lorica, the Left is all about hypocritical affirmations and ironic/moronic support. This is a cult that swoons after Jihadist murderers who follow a Fascist religious cult that keep woman as pets. Its all downhill from there. They don’t really have any standards. It’s what ever is anti-Conservative, no matter how stupidly contradictory the position.
- Bang
THE COWBOY AND THE YUPPIE
A West Texas cowboy was herding his cows in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?”
The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, Why not?”
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photo Shop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored.
He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”
“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says the cowboy. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the cowboy says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?”
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”
You’re a Congressman for the U.S. Government”, says the cowboy.
“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?”
“No guessing required.” answered the cowboy. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don’t know a thing about cows……..Now give me back my dog.”
“Now give me my dog back.” LOL That is soooo very true. Congress at it’s finest. – Lorica
Yeah I know Bang. It is like our Erich the MSM hooks these guys with some limited piece of information and the next thing ya know they contrive some complete idiotic ideology from it. But yet we are the ones who are deceived. For 1 I don’t know how good decent folk can align their thinking with the same lunitics that lead the left. Kennedy – Murderer, Clinton – Adultrous liar, whom I am certain committed treason on more than 1 occasion, Kerry – Womanizing coward, whom according to his biographer met with Vietnamise military on his peace mission in Paris, and lastly Howard Dean, this man is out of his mind crazy. I think when he did his screech his any symbolense of intelligence left him too. I just don’t know how you can vote for these folk, and they are the leaders of the Dem party. /shiver – Lorica
Why didn’t somebody raise the hypocrisy issue at the hearing? Might’ve been a nice change of pace, eh?
benning: All Holmes would’ve had to say was, “Probably similar reasons to you Swimmer, except I question the timing.”