Liberals turning on Sen. Windbag
From Michelle Malkin. Left-leaning columnist Froma Harrop reports on progressive unhappiness with one of the Senate’s biggest blowhards, Teddy Kennedy. His eco-hypocrisy, it seems, is too much for them to take:
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Once upon a time, Ted Kennedy could count on his daily dose of veneration. The right wing hated the Massachusetts Democrat, but progressives honored him as a defender of old-school liberalism.In a remarkable turnaround, liberals are now heaping scorn on the 73-year-old senator. Young audiences boo at his name, and the leftish “Daily Show” on Comedy Central makes fun of him.
The source of unhappiness is Kennedy’s efforts to kill an offshore wind farm on Nantucket Sound. Cape Wind was to be the first such project in the United States and a source of pride to environmentally minded New Englanders. Polls show 84 percent of Massachusetts residents in favor. But now it appears that America’s first offshore wind farm will be near Galveston, Texas.
Proposed the month before Sept. 11, 2001, Cape Wind remains in limbo. It’s been frustrated at every turn by a handful of yachtsmen, Kennedy included, who don’t want to see windmills from their verandas. Many millions have been spent spreading disinformation and smearing the wind farm’s supporters.
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September 5th, 2007 at 7:41 am
Ha! That picture is priceless! Hayek, at Scragged, also discussed Kennedy’s hypocrisy in an article just released: http://www.scragged.com/blogs/scragged/archive/2007/09/05/balkanizing-the-environment.aspx