A Letter From the Shallow End of the Kennedy Gene Pool

From U.S.News.com's "Washington Whispers":

Kennedy hits "Cowboy" Bush

While the Democratic Party might be torn on how hard to smack down President Bush's policies at home and abroad, old liberal lion Sen. Edward Kennedy isn't quieting his roar. In fact, in a new fundraising letter for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Teddy K lashes out at just about everything Bush and the GOP do, from the war in Iraq to trying to cut funding for Big Bird.

"I urgently need you to help defeat this flagrant threat to our democracy," pens Kennedy in a copy provided to Whispers. "They're shameless! Their arrogance knows no limit. Never has it been clearer in American history that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. George Bush and his allies don't believe they have to answer to anyone but their hard-core supporters on the farthest fringe." On issues, he hits the Bush deficit, changes in environmental policy, moves to put conservatives on the court, and the president's foreign policy. "They've alienated crucial allies," says Kennedy. "George Bush's cowboy diplomacy and misguided war in Iraq have made America more hated in the world and made the war against terrorism harder to win." Republican officials just shrugged when told of the letter. One official characterized it simply as some Kennedy red meat to liberal donors.

Read the Kennedy letter

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My Comments:
There's that reference to "liberal lion Sen. Edward Kennedy" again.