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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., says it’s unlikely Democrats’ reconciliation bill will pass before Christmas and warns there could be a government shutdown over Biden’s vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n
Scientists have yet to create a perpetual-motion machine. However, the perpetual-quotation machine has been invented and is functioning beautifully. His name is U.S. Senator John Kennedy.<\/p>\n
The Louisiana Republican is one of America\u2019s most dependable journalistic resources. When a columnist or broadcaster requires a colorful and droll observation on current events, Kennedy delivers more swiftly than FedEx.<\/p>\n
“I needed a quote for my story,” a congressional correspondent recalled in BuzzFeed. “And what do you know? I put a nickel in John Kennedy and a quote came out.”<\/p>\n
His homespun remarks, conveyed in a Southern drawl, generated a quiz called, “Who said it: Sen. John Kennedy or Foghorn Leghorn?”<\/p>\n
Kennedy once said the Senate “is like high school, but nobody ever graduates.” He described a superficial “fix” to ObamaCare as “putting paint on rotting wood.” He is no fan of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He said about the California Democrat: “I don\u2019t mean any disrespect, but it must suck to be that dumb.”<\/p>\n
“Putin is a wolf,” Kennedy told Fox News Channel\u2019s Sean Hannity Tuesday night. “I think he thinks President Biden is a sheep in sheep\u2019s clothing.”<\/p>\n
Kennedy spoke with Fox\u2019s Maria Bartiromo on Sunday in a combination interview and stand-up comedy routine.<\/p>\n
Referring to the Build Back Better Act, Biden\u2019s $2.4 trillion to $4.8 trillion gateway drug to American socialism, Kennedy said, “The only way I know how to improve that is with a shredder. It\u2019s going to fuel inflation. When a Hot Pocket costs you $10, remember, we\u2019re building back better.” <\/p>\n
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Kennedy dismissed Biden\u2019s $1.2 trillion “fake infrastructure bill” as “craptastic.” Kennedy explained: “I didn’t vote for the infrastructure bill because only 23 percent of it went to infrastructure. And I wasn\u2019t going to spend taxpayer money to buy a car to get the cupholders.”<\/p>\n
Kennedy strongly challenged Saule Omarova, Biden\u2019s Kazakh-born, Soviet-educated, neo-Leninist, and now-withdrawn nominee for Comptroller of the Currency. As she faced confirmation before the Senate Banking Committee, Kennedy grilled this Cornell Law School faculty member:<\/p>\n
“In 2020, you wrote another paper called \u2018The Climate Case for a National Investment Authority,\u2019 where you said: \u2018What we need to do to the oil and gas industry is have the federal government bankrupt them, so we can tackle climate change.\u2019… I don\u2019t know whether to call you professor or comrade.”<\/p>\n
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Kennedy chided Biden for naming a slew of other far-Left fanatics to federal agencies, such as First Amendment foe Gigi Sohn, now under scrutiny for a seat on the Federal Communications Commission. “I think they are one of the reasons that President Biden\u2019s poll numbers are on a journey to the center of the Earth,” Kennedy quipped. “\u2018Be yourself\u2019 is the worst advice you can give some people. And so many of President Biden\u2019s nominees are just barking mad.”<\/p>\n
Kennedy described Biden\u2019s picks as “crypto-socialists.” He added: “They\u2019re fanatical. I mean, if you ask them to consider another point of view, their neck veins bulge, and they call you a Nazi or a racist. We try to question them in committee. But they don\u2019t answer the questions. They just refer you — excuse my language — they just refer you to bullshit.com.”<\/p>\n
Kennedy also can be blunt. He urged Biden to restore sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 natural-gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, which Biden inexplicably removed after killing America\u2019s own Keystone XL Pipeline. Once operational, Nord Stream would empower Vladimir Putin to cripple heaters and stoves across Western Europe if America\u2019s NATO allies resisted, say, a Kremlin invasion of Ukraine. “If you do that,” Kennedy said, “we will get Russia down, and then we can choke them.”<\/p>\n
Kennedy is a solid, if not rigid, conservative with twin 84 percent lifetime ratings from the American Conservative Union and the Club for Growth, with both of which I have collaborated for years. Beyond being reliably hilarious, the University of Virginia lawyer and Oxford University graduate also is a sharp interrogator in oversight hearings, as assertive as a Mardi Gras Indian, and suitably defiant of authority. <\/p>\n
For his next act of defiance, Kennedy should topple the exhausted chairman of the Senate Cave-in Caucus, Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell (ACU 87; CFG 74). In yet another milquetoast milestone, the Senate\u2019s Republican “leader” swallowed Democrats\u2019 pending-default lies, and agreed this week to help Democrats raise the federal debt ceiling. <\/p>\n
In exchange, McConnell got…absolutely nothing. This is precisely what he pledged not to do, in an October 8 letter to President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
Seeing Senator John Kennedy stand tall in McConnell\u2019s wobbly shoes would give conservatives the last laugh.<\/p>\n