Opaque Lucidity

Kennedy Speaks! Praise On Bended Knee!

I don't like the Kennedys as a group. I know that some of you (especially those of you who live in the Boston area) see them as American royalty, and when you compare them to British royalty, you're right: they haven't worked for generations and they have the morals of snakes. But let me tell you how I really feel.

About the time old Joe Kennedy quit working in order to cheat on his wife full-time and install one of his sons as President, the family turned the corner from unabashed capitalists to socialist wankers with two exceptions. Joe, Jr. gave his life for his nation, so I will not talk about his politics here. JFK was a brave Naval officer and would be considered conservative today. That leaves Robert and Teddy (or, as I like to call him, Theodore "One More For The Road" Kennedy). Robert was a social liberal and would probably have re-made the Democratic Party long before the 1972 election saw them burn down their own fortunes. And Teddy...well, you know all about Teddy.

The grandchildren of Joe K. are now the ones at the forefront of the family. And as far as mouthpieces go, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. takes the cake. Today, he has a column over at the Huffington Post. I'm not going to reprint the entire thing here, just the first paragraph:

As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, it’s worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush’s iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2.

The column goes on to assert, despite having no firm evidence, that severe hurricanes are caused by our use of fossil fuels and the increased presence of CO2 in the atmosphere. Of course, President Bush is to blame.

I wonder, though, why Robert Kennedy, who is soooo concerned about future, isn't publicly outing Uncle Ted "Give Me The Keys, Woman" Kennedy for coming out against a proposed windmill farm in Nantucket Sound? Wouldn't that help reduce our use of greenhouse-inducing fossil fuels?

What annoys me most about this is that a dirtbag like Kennedy takes the opportunity to use a national tragedy as a weapon to both blame the President and his policies for causing the problem (at least the possibility) and to push his radical environmentalist agenda. Of course, if you read the comments left after his post, you'll see how well crap like this resounds with those people who do things like wait for the 2,000th soldier to die in Iraq because it gives them a nice round number to paint on their signs.

Asshats.