I read through this rogue's gallery and could not find one of them who did a single thing as despicable as Ted Kennedy's cowardly abandonment of a girl to die in cold waters.

Ironic, isn't it?

I think the blocked, reversed, or sabotaged between these 12 boneheads has abandoned millions of men and women to death. Whether it be poverty, disease, war, pollution, failure to protect from faulty products, or using personal religious convictions to deny adequate health care, I'd say the rotunda is pretty full of ghosts.

My my - you are the personification of knuckleheadedness by leavng out the leaders of the pack.

Harry Ried: evidence of knuckleheadedness:

"The War is Lost!"

And John Kerry: evidence of knuckleheadedness:

He lost a second bid at the presidency when he indicated that if you are stupid you will end up in Iraq.

And Arlen Specter: evidence of knuckleheadedness

Switched parties (its never good either way)

And Arlen - be advised - my entire extended family is switching parties to vote for Joe Sestak in the Dem primary in PA - then we will switch back to vote against Sestak in the election.

Let us not forget Richard Shelby.

The article is flawed in its praise for Ted Kennedy. None of these "knuckleheads" ever drove a woman off a bridge and left her to die, spent thirty years drunk in the Senate or held secret meetings with the Soviet Union asking them to undermine the President of the United States.

but whatever.

Maybe teenage lesbianism is so rampant in Oklahoma because their young women are more highly evolved than the cro-magnon douchenozzles they have to choose from as mates. Ya think?

If their Senate contingent is any indication I wouldn't be shocked in any way.

no nothing as despicable as starting at least one unjustified war based on lies causing the deaths and maiming of a 100,000 times as many (men, women, and children) as Teddy could ever indirectly be accused of killing. But you're right there's an equivalency there somewhere--she was white and American so she's at least worth 100,000 brown folks. Right?

The quality of senators has deteriorated lately. When you look @ Vitter, who paid whores to make him dump in his diapers, you get truly inspired by how corrupt & stupid these sanctimonious critters really are.

Bush-voting trolls assert that assholes like Vitter are more moral than Ted Kennedy. These trolls are the guys who let others torture and invade for them...and for Jesus.

Ironic, isn't it?

The praise for Kennedy is mild-but he was so much smarter, competent & more honest than these corrupt blowhards/knuckleheads. While he did kill as many people with his car as Laura Bush, he also accomplished a great deal. These 12 blowhards looted the treasury every time they voted for tax cuts and illegal wars--and every time they cashed a paycheck.

It speaks of light-hearted incompetent bafoonery.

My nomenclature for our "Elected Public Officials" in Congress would be to a person - "Criminals Deserving of Prosecution Under the RICO Statues"

Do I have that right RR?

Throw them all out and start over with short term limits.

Or is he too sophisticated and diabolical to appear on this list? He should at least appear on the list of the Senate's complete A-holes.

How could you have left out Arizona's favorite sons; that Dynamic Duo of Dimwits - Kyl and McCain??

Let's start a pool.

I bet all 100 Senators can be added within 47 posts.

Anyone want to volunteer to keep track?

In fact we have two -

"OOOOOK-lahoma where the wind comes sweepin' through our brains.........."

A big beautiful state, unfortunately with no sentient representation whatsoever.

Inhofe? Coburn? I gotta go with Inhofe, by a pointy little nose.

I am old enough to remember a cool magazine called New Times, published in the 1970s, that once ran an article describing the dumbest members of Congress. I believe the "winner" was a senator from Virginia named William Scott, who apparently earned the prize by being so cheap that he washed his office's paper clips, or directed his staff to do so.

I believe the inimitable Earl Landgrebe of Indiana was also on the list. After Richard Nixon released the tapes that proved he'd participated in the Watergate coverup and his remaining support on the House Judiciary Committee -- indeed, in Congress itself -- collapsed, Landgrebe stuck with him, saying things like "Don't confuse me with the facts."

Those were the days.

Please give any evidence that Ted Kennedy "held secret meetings with the Soviet Union asking them to undermine the President of the United States."

You have your double-crossing politicians confused. Two Republicans are famous for undermining the United States to win elections.

On behalf of Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger told the North Vietnamese they would get a better deal from Nixon than from LBJ, shutting down any chance for peace in 1968, and for seven years afterwards.

And in 1980, Ronald Reagan gave Iran incentives -- i.e., the promise of arms -- to keep the hostages until after the election, so he could use it against Carter.

That in itself makes Reagan one of the most despicable politicians in U.S. history.

Speaking of knuckleheads, letter one from 'the unlovely truth returns' who writes, believe it or not (just joking -- this man is seriously flaky): "I read through this rogue's gallery and could not find one of them who did a single thing as despicable as Ted Kennedy's cowardly abandonment of a girl to die in cold waters."

Evidence of TUTR's knuckleheadedness: this from a frothing freak who has written more than 50 letters since he rejoined the board, almost all of them filled with a pathological and unrelenting hatred and a very very unnatural obsession and fixation on the late Senator.

I guess the only thing you can say about this (limited I'd guess) list of assholes, hypocrites, liars, and phoneys -- you call them knuckleheads -- is that the only thing worse than them are the idiots who voted for them. Seemingly a majority of the State that they represent. Ewwww.

TUTR -- If you aren't man enough to get help, then at least acknowledge that you have a serious problem.