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"Quote Of The Day:Epitaph On The Politician Himself, By Hilaire Belloc
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Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

[Epitaph On The Politician Himself, Hilaire Belloc]

Ted Kennedy, R.I.P.
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Sen. Kennedy sponsored both the 1965 immigration act and the 1990 act
that created the absurd diversity immigration lottery. The irony is
that Kennedy intended both laws to bring more Irishmen to America to
vote for Kennedys. The two laws largely failed at that, but had
remarkable unintended consequences.

Senator Edward Kennedy: A Disaster for his Country
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So Edward Kennedy has died. No doubt Peter Brimelow will be giving
further consideration to this event later – Joe Guzzardi has already
weighed in.

But as we brace ourselves for the deluge of cloying nonsense from the
Kennedy-loving MSM, one piece of misinformation already stands out:

For nearly a half-century in the Senate, Kennedy was a steadfast
champion of the working class and the poor…

Mass. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy dies at age 77 By GLEN JOHNSON The
Associated Press Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Senator Kennedy’s place in History will ultimately be defined mainly
by his role in passing the nation-destroying 1965 Immigration Act,
which he never disavowed, even after it had long since become clear it
had gone disastrously wrong.

Whatever else may be said about this murderous blow to America, it is
indisputable that it has been a catastrophe for the working man, both
in terms of real income and of quality of life – and particularly for
the marginal community, America’s Blacks.

As Peter Brimelow said in He’s Baaack! – Senator Kennedy on
Immigration Reform

Very few Senators heavily involved in passing a major piece of
social legislation are still in the Senate forty years later when the
subject comes up again. And absolutely none has looked as
spectacularly foolish about it as Senator Edward Kennedy. As floor
manager of the 1965 Immigration Act Kennedy assured the country

“First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants
annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration
remains substantially the same… Secondly, the ethnic mix of this
country will not be upset…. Contrary to the charges in some quarters,
[the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one
country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa
and Asia….

In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the
proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics
seem to think.”

These words should be his epitaph."


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