KENNEDY, WARNER & ALEXANDER all in it together...

The next time they tell you to take off your tin foil hat think long and hard about why.  It is what it seems to be.... SovereignMan    Liberals Sneer at Ted Kennedy

Thursday, September 6, 2007 10:20 AM Article Font Size

Liberal darling Ted Kennedy has run afoul of the left over his opposition to a controversial wind farm project in Massachusetts. Liberals “are now heaping scorn on the 73-year-old senator,” reports syndicated columnist Froma Harrop. “Young audiences boo at his name, and the leftish ‘Daily Show’ on Comedy Central makes fun of him.” The energy-producing wind farm on Nantucket Sound was slated to be the first such project in the U.S., and polls showed that 84 percent of state residents favor it. The Cape Wind Project would erect 130 windmills in Nantucket Sound and could provide three-fourths of the power needed by Cape Cod and nearby islands, which is now largely supplied by coal-fired plants. But the project has been “frustrated at every turn by a handful of yachtsmen, Kennedy included, who don’t want to see windmills from their verandas,” writes Harrop, who’s on the staff of the Providence Journal. The new book “Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound,” by Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb, chronicles the bipartisan efforts to kill the wind farm project. An earlier book by Peter Schweizer, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy,” also disclosed Kennedy’s efforts to torpedo the wind farm. “The Cape Wind Project would be built in Nantucket Sound, about six miles off the coast from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis,” Schweizer explained. "The problem was not aesthetic; the Kennedys wouldn’t be able to actually see the turbines from their home. Instead Robert Kennedy Jr., who had been beating the drum for alternative sources of energy for more than a decade, complained that the project would be built in one of the family’s favorite sailing and yachting areas.” Kennedy was not alone in opposing the project. Authors Williams and Whitcomb disclose that Sen. John Warner, R-Va., added a rider to an urgent Iraq war-funding bill that barred the Army Corps of Engineers from spending money permitting offshore wind projects.     Warner’s wealthy relatives own choice waterfront property on Cape Cod, Harrop notes. After an outcry, Warner was forced to back down. Another Republican, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, introduced a bill banning virtually all offshore wind projects in the U.S. He owns real estate on Nantucket Island. But Kennedy remains the main focus of wind farm proponents, including Greenpeace – which has launched an anti-Kennedy TV ad campaign in support of the offshore project. After 45 years in the Senate, Kennedy should be polishing his liberal legacy,” Harrop concludes. “But his manipulative attacks on this wind farm have so sickened supporters that his long career may be headed for a sorry end.”

Hopefully this wind farm project will be the final undoing of this murderer/manslaughter senator and his destructive policies over the years. What a liberal, uncaring snob.  Gee, maybe he should hire some illegals to take care of his energy needs.

It is heartening to see that the other two elites, Warner and Alexander, may take a beating over the project as well.  

These guys just don't get the other side of life, and the betterment of this country. 

 

Kaksdesign said:

Hopefully this wind farm project will be the final undoing of this murderer/manslaughter senator and his destructive policies over the years. What a liberal, uncaring snob.  Gee, maybe he should hire some illegals to take care of his energy needs.

It is heartening to see that the other two elites, Warner and Alexander, may take a beating over the project as well.  

These guys just don't get the other side of life, and the betterment of this country. 

 

 

Truth is they think it is "THEIR" country .

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Someone needs to get a cam and take pictures of Kennedy jump up and down and yell and throw a fit over this just like he did in the immigration bill. I would pay to watch it. Hes got enough wind for everyone.

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This same type of mentality has a name in the real estate business ,  NIMBY pronounce nimbee but meaning  "NOT IN MY BACK YARD". People with this mentality have ruined many a plan devised for the common good of many people and is just one of thousands of reasons for the real estate problems we are experiencing at present .

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This is the same mentality that has us paying $3.00 a gallon for gasoline because they don't want to ruin the environment. Diesel fuel went up about $1.00 per gallon when they went to government mandated Low Sulphur diesel and it never came down like gasoline did. This is one clown that should have been tried and convicted for murder and executed in the gas chamber as they could not find a hat big enought to fit his bloated head for the electric chair and his veins are hardened from all of the scotch.

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blaze77535 said: This is the same mentality that has us paying $3.00 a gallon for gasoline because they don't want to ruin the environment. Diesel fuel went up about $1.00 per gallon when they went to government mandated Low Sulphur diesel and it never came down like gasoline did. This is one clown that should have been tried and convicted for murder and executed in the gas chamber as they could not find a hat big enought to fit his bloated head for the electric chair and his veins are hardened from all of the scotch.

 

Cha Ching!! And where do you think the money came from that supported the ads against new plants ? If you follow the chain or papertrack or electronitrack of money backwards , I'll bet dollars to doughnuts it is the big oil companies themselves . We are like Stradivarious's products and get played just as well .

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bob graham las vegas - how is your view of Nantucket Sound from the American Southwest? When was the last time you went commercial fishing in Nantucket Sound? How would you feel if a private developer came in and said I'm putting a 25 square mile industrial plant right on the Essential Fish Habitat of fluke and squid?

 Funny how you call people NIMBY's - apparently you've never felt any connection to any place you lived. Maybe you have never worked the land...I dont know...but if someone put a stick in the middle of a place you have come to love through toil and hardship and wanted, you'd be pissed too.

 This isn't about the view, its about a private developer not willing to work with the local community and stuffing this project down peoples throats because he wont relocate. 

 I'm not a NIMBY.

If it's good for the country it's good by me . And in retrospect , if it harms the country it needs to go . This fits windmills and ideoligist treehugging idiots as well .

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bob graham las vegas said: If it's good for the country it's good by me . And in retrospect , if it harms the country it needs to go . This fits windmills and ideoligist treehugging idiots as well .

 

I agree Bob...It is happening here in Florida and has been in the works for years. Started by none other than...Jeb Bush and The EPA. ENRC

Your right SM about the Tin Foil Hat Trick.

It's called greed!! Now, Charlie Crist is on that same bandwagon as far as our Environment is concerned. I liked Crist when he was runnning. Now, the tide is turning. Hmmmmm...Can you say Martinez? RECALL THE BAS**D!!!!!

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