Ed Meese: 'Reprobate' Ted Kennedy Should Have Been Censured
Former Attorney General Ed Meese said Tuesday that the
Republican-controlled Senate should have censured Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.,
after he called President Bush a liar last month, saying that Kennedy was "a
reprobate."
"The worst thing that I've seen in Washington in a long time was Teddy
Kennedy - that reprobate - standing on the floor of the Senate and calling
President Bush a liar, and nothing happened [to him]," Meese told radio host
Sean Hannity, who was broadcasting from the Heritage Foundation in Washington,
D.C.
The Reagan administration's top lawman continued:
"I would have thought that the entire Republican side of the [Senate] would
have leaped to their feet, called for a point of order, moved to censure Kennedy
and have him banned from the floor - and move to purge his remarks from the
Congressional Record."
In October Sen. Kennedy accused the Bush administration of telling "lie after
lie after lie" to convince Americans that an attack on Iraq was justified,
saying that the attack plan was "a fraud made up in Texas."
"It's unbelievable that anybody would make that claim," said Meese, adding,
"particularly when it was a president of his party that actually did launch
missiles against a pharmaceutical house in Sudan in order to cover up the
liaison with Monica Lewinsky."
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