At least one of our wars has its funny moments
Ted Kennedy gave a speech on Alito today that might have been called Stemwinder for a Small Audience. We thought it very funny when hearing it, but unlike Michelle Malkin and many others, thought it played pretty well when we watched it. We can understand how it would work up the faithful; our observation is that the themes are so hackneyed, the group consituting the faithful gets smaller every year.
We just wish we had the bit where Kennedy went nuts on asthma deaths in the US. Deaths from breathing problems, eh, Senator? Well there are about 5000 asthma deaths in the US every year, so we were hoping he’d keep going down the list. There are about 4000 deaths annually from another breathing problem, drowning, and we were really hoping to hear Senator Kennedy’s thoughts on that subject.
January 31st, 2006 at 5:39 pm
Great line – will pass on.
Taranto also hit it at OpinionJournal – Best of the Web Today:
…… He kept talking about the “march of progress”–i.e., the civil rights era–as if that march had not long ago reached its destination, as if the moral questions facing the country and the court today were as black-and-white as segregation.
Not that we disagree with every word of what Kennedy said. At the end of his speech, he declared,
“I understand my time has expired.”
Truer words were never spoken.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/
February 1st, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Drowning problems -that’s funny -snorkle, snorkle!
February 1st, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Drowning problems -that’s funny -snorkle, snorkle!