Liberal Lion Sleeps

So the last bootlegger's boy has died. Sorry ya'll I just cannot muster up any tears for this guy hell for the family. The old man set out to build a royal-like family in the U.S. How many had there been up until that point? The Astors, the Rockefellers. The Astors owned pretty much all of NYC when the country was just starting out and they opened up the northwest coast trading in furs and things from the orient. Rockefeller, simple Standard Oil. It ruled this nation, This was the only company ever that was too big to fail. So what happened? The government busted up the trust and the result was John D. Rockefeller tripled his wealth nice job "progressives." So big Joe sees this and realized the next big thing in moneymaking is prohibition. Running a little molasses for rum and some offshore liquor pick-ups; how else did you think some south Boston micks wound up in Hyannis. At the same time the motion picture industry explodes and he sees how these people are treated as royalty in the press. This he sees firsthand during his affair with Gloria Swanson. He is enthralled by the attention and craves more he will use his sons and get them hooked on this drug, the self obsession that no one is more important than me.

So Joe jr. was chosen to be President but he was killed serving in WWII. The honor was passed to John who severely injured injured his back serving in WWII. He survived to be a senator and later President of Camelot. Robert worshipped his brother and was with him every step of the way until JFK was assassinated. So Robert then ran for President and looked like a winner until killed in LA. Then Edward was up "Teddy" as he was known liked where he was as senator. Personally he just wanted to be a playboy, an idiot son of a millionaire, if you will. Let's see kicked out of Harvard for cheating, killed a young female campaign worker while DUI. Womanizing and alcohol abuse ruined his marriage and he and Senator Dodd became the drunken frat boys of the senate, it would have been laughable if these two jackasses were not elected multiple times. Of course his failed run for President for President in 1980, imagine if Reagan had buried him then, but he saw the light and got out at the convention. Then like the stand-up guy he is he said he did not want to worry his mother after what happened to the last two brothers. The Kennedy name has lost some its luster under his leadership no one was ever allowed to outshine Ted and now there is a void in leadership that no one seems to want to fill. But in our cult-of-personality society the funeral will be an all day affair full of pomp and pompousness just the way he would have wanted. Real quick statement on the Catholic church he was a divorced, pro-abortion liberal but I guess hypocrisy knows no bounds when it comes to this family. A friend of mine remarked that he is playing football with his brothers in heaven now. They all cheated on their wives all may have or may not have killed people, Ted definitely did. Last time I checked those are not prerequisites for getting into the Pearly Gates, I'm just saying. In Ted's legislative life he has cost taxpayers billions to trillions of dollars in helping to make this country more fair. I ask you, in his 47 years in the senate is this country more fair or are people still trying to do that. Forty-seven years of desecrating the Constitution with his liberal philosophy and he has changed nothing. I gotta say I hate to see him go. But you all know my favorite thing about liberals as stated in the right hand column.