Today's JG rant: Drunk Ted Kennedy sum total of Dope Party

Re JG editorial, “Insights from another era,” of Dec 26, 2018

Labeling anything a lefty loon like Rachel Maddow says “brilliant” belies the JG’s tissue thin veneer of being a home for honest journalism. Here’s an important thing to remember: No one ever drowned in the backseat of Spiro Agnew’s car.

I look forward to the JG praising the Fox News Channel’s series on Chappaquiddick that introduces modern listeners to the craven activities of Edward M. (Teddy) Kennedy on the night of July 18, 1969.

Cliff notes version:

Kennedy (probably drunk) drove his car off the Dike Bridge into Poucha Pond on Chappaquiddick, Island.

Kennedy freed himself from his submerged car and swam to safety.

Kennedy left the scene of the accident knowingly leaving his passenger, 28 year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, to either drown or more likely suffocate in the backseat of his sedan.

Kennedy waited ten hours to report the accident to authorities.

Brain-dead heartless Massachusetts Democrats continued to elect the cowardly weasel Kennedy to represent them in the US Senate until his death in 2009.

Few if any in the Republican Party lionize Agnew or Nixon. Kennedy is the sum total of the Democrat Party: a weakling, a lair, a misogynist, a commie sympathizer, and a coward of the highest order.  Yet Teddy Kennedy remains a rock star within his own corrupt BS party.

That’s the history of Teddy Kennedy and the Democrat Party.  Does it help?            

Insights from another era

Rachel Maddow's brilliant, seven-part podcast “Bagman” introduces modern listeners to the remarkably little-known story of Spiro Agnew, who served as vice president under President Richard Nixon but was forced from office after prosecutors developed strong evidence that he had personally accepted bribes to fix contracts as a Maryland official and even while he was vice president.

Though unrelated to Agnew's misdeeds, the Watergate scandal was in full bloom when the vice president resigned and pleaded no contest to a tax-evasion charge in October 1973. It would be almost another years before Nixon left office under threat of impeachment. Maddow, an MSNBC host, recounts the story with details that may surprise even those who lived through those shock-a-minute months – including a rift between Nixon and Agnew as both investigations became more serious.

The courage and integrity of U.S. Attorney General Elliott Richardson, who decided to let Agnew escape the threat of jail time in order to get his plea and resignation, shines through the sordid story. Just a few days later, Richardson himself was out of the government, fired by Nixon during the infamous Saturday Night Massacre.

Could understanding the Agnew saga help us deal with today's tempestuous politics?

“History,” Maddow says enigmatically, “is here to help.”