Ted still gouging taxpayers

Dead Man Gouges Taxpayers Bay State pols U.S. Sen. John Kerry and U.S. Rep. Edward Markey had sought another $30 million this year, only to see it get slashed down to $8.5 mil- lion as an anti-earmark tide swept over Capitol Hill.

The founding president of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate yesterday said he is giving up on seeking federal funds for the legacy project, $30 million short of the total the institute has requested from Congress. “We had this request in and we felt that either we get it this year or we don’t, and we’re not going to go back,” said Peter Meade, president of the institute. “I doubt we’re going back to ask for any more. The additional taxpayer funds would have been used toward the endowment and to create a civics course!  How nice.  But what sort of civics would be taught in an institution named after a man who engaged with the Soviet Union in a clandestine plot to undermine President Ronald Reagan's administration?  I propose instead $1 million to exhume Ted's corpse once a year to make sure the sumbitch is still dead. [Full Story]