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Ha ha, Michael Dukakis loses again. This bro, former DNC chair Paul Kirk, was more or less picked by the Kennedy family. “Deval, darling, appoint this human, we used to summer together,” Vicki Kennedy urged the Governor of Massachusetts. But it was probably a good pick, because Kirk is familiar with Ted Kennedy’s staff and might actually have some sense of what the hell he’s doing. Oh golly. Check out John Kerry in the video! What a SEVERE couple these two will make, in the Senate. [NYT, YouTube]
Poor Mikey, now it’s his turn to hit the bottle. And just as people were realizing he’s not dead. What a blow.
So where does Deval Patrick get his high quality helium for his speeches? I always end up sounding like Alvin.
I’d tap that. To replace Kennedy.
Ted Stevens is the new Ted Kennedy?
This is an impressive list of qualifications:
“He shares the sense of service that so distinguished Senator Kennedy,” Governor Patrick, a Democrat, said…Mr. Kirk, a longtime friend of the Kennedy family and onetime special assistant to Senator Kennedy….he has pledged not to run in the election. Mr. Kirk was the favorite of the late senator’s wife and two sons, as well as some officials in President Obama’s administration, according to people familiar with the matter….Mr. Kirk…worked for Senator Kennedy in the 1970s.”
Plus he’s Irish!
That is to say: chair-warmer. Who’s the real replacement?
Yes, yes ,yes, but can he dance?
If only Barney Frank wanted to be senator, there might be some hope for that pathetic body of preening, poo-flinging monkeys.
Now we get to see if he’s a good Democrat — he should declare the public option dead in the water within 24 hours.
El Pinche: At the very end, Kennedy was a series of tubes.
I did not realize that Massachusetts was populated exclusively by septuagenarians and up.
AHHH THIS GUY LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE G. H. W. BUSH I CAN’T GET OVER IT. Is he secretly a Republican who is going to insert his son (a Kennedy) as president once we find Obama’s birth certificate (Next week according to Orly Taintz DDS Esq.).
Is John Kerry some kind of giant, or is Deval Patrick an elf?
SayItWithWookies: Well, he is currently on the board of directors of the parent company of a health insurer and has lobbied for the pharmaceutical industry, so yeah.
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20090924likely_senate_pick_raises_concerns/srvc=home&position=also
Let’s see this stuffed shirt pitch on a bleeding ankle. Wouldn’t make it a third of an inning.
Plus: Wearz the long form sirtifikit!!!1! etc.
Does four months service in the Senate entitle one to a pension?
“Deval, darling, appoint this human…”
What a disappointment. I’ve been saying for years that any government entity run or controlled by humans is likely to be disastrous. Certainly there was some sort of friendly animal Gov. Patrick could have chosen to take Kennedy’s place. To spite Glenn Beck, I would have appointed a frog.
He doesn’t look like Roland Burris. Does he at least have a mausoleum with a blank line? Like his house?
Canmon (the Inadequate): O bother! Looks like big Health wins again. Fear not, single-payer system or bust by 2056!! Er, 2064. Er, 2078. Oh who’m I kidding, we’ll all be daid.
How long before the trolls show up yelling about how Paul Kirk killed Mary Jo Kopechne?
The guy has spent the last ten years as a registered lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry. From the AP - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_us/us_kennedy_successor
Nice fucking timing, Kennedy family! Heaven knows we need one more Senator in the pocket of big pharma voting on this health care bill.
Captain Justice: I have compiled a brief photo essay on this very subject:
http://www.willisms.com/archives/treebeard.jpg
http://www.queermusicheritage.us/OCT2007/jaxoncard1.jpg
V572625694: But can he party with the youngs after a case of Jameson? That takes a real Irishman! I played quarters with Ted Kennedy, and You sir are No Ted Kennedy! Now get up off my floor and leave!
Canmon (the Inadequate): It’s tough trying to be snide when reality keeps beating me to it. Also we’re doomed.
a suitable apparatchik. just don’t let him drive. and he is to speak only when spoken to.
HEY! That guy has been pulling the strings for a while! Check out his location in this now familiar photo:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/09/24/us/24massachusetts1.190.jpg
Where’s his hand? It turns out this puppetmaster guy already has been controlling Ted Kennedy’s every move.
JOWL FIGHT! Four enter, but only two flop out!
OpusOne: “Does he at least have a mausoleum with a blank line?”. In MA, honorariums are placed on boat houses on the Cape.
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Paul Kirk is a real sweet piece of work.
Just ask Ralph Nader ~
Kirk!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsYT8YHL-R0
Canmon (the Inadequate): “Well, he is currently on the board of directors of the parent company of a health insurer and has lobbied for the pharmaceutical industry, so yeah.”
Oh, shit. I don’t have much to say beyond that. Big Health wins. Big Health always wins. Always.
NYNYNY: “I’d tap that. To replace Kennedy.”
WIN
And, again, why couldn’t they have picked a nice Southie boy like Mark Wahlberg?
Naked Bunny with a Whip: Yeah, but can he swim?