Legal Commentary

Who Is The Wackier Kennedy Worshipper? O'Donnell Or Dowd?

By Big Tent Democrat

You make the call. First up is Maureen Dowd:

I love the hurly-burly way the Illinois governor rammed through his choice for the Senate, compared with the namby-pamby way the New York governor strangled his best choice for the Senate. So now we have an N.R.A. handmaiden in Bobby Kennedy’s old seat? Paterson could have acted a month ago, or even a week ago. . . . Then the Democrats would have had another Kennedy in the Senate representing New York — Bobby’s niece and a smart, policy-oriented, civic-minded woman to whom the president feels deeply indebted in an era when every state has its hand out.

(Emphasis supplied.) That one is going to be hard to beat I know (and I did not even get into the paranoid CDS conspiracy theory.) But read what Lawrence O'Donnell had to say:

“Paterson has no comprehension of upstate New York, absolutely none, and has chosen someone better at representing cows than people,” Lawrence O’Donnell says. “What you have is the daughter of a lobbyist, instead of the daughter of a former President or the son of a former governor. This is the hack world producing the hack result that the hacks are happy with."

Allrighty then. I did not realize that for some in the Media the Camelot/Kennedy thing never ended. But on the wacky scale, I think Dowd wins. O'Donnell is offensive and weird. Dowd is, to coin a phrase, cuckoo.

The other thing that is weird is that these Kennedy worshippers never actually worshipped Ted Kennedy's progressive agenda. It is safe to say I think that between O'Donnell and Dowd they may have spent 1% of the words on policy instead of personalities (and between the two of them a third of their words have been hateful screeds against the Clintons.) It really all is personal, not policy driven, for them. I am coming to the conclusion the everyone in Washington is crazy.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 25, 2009 (boomark / email).