January 11, 2006
UPS – For When a Senator Needs it to Get There!
Kennedy and Specter Go At in Hearings
It seems ever-popular Teddy Kennedy got into it today with Arlen Specter during the Alito hearings. Kennedy is very interested in certain sealed records in the Library of Congress, to the point where he wants an executive session of the committee to grant a subpeona to open those records. But the below exchange was particularly interesting.
SPECTER: Well, we’ll consider that, Senator Kennedy. There are many, many requests which are coming to me and many quarters. And, quite candidly, I view the request — if it’s really a matter of importance, you and I see each other all the time and you have never mentioned it to me. And I do not ascribe a great deal of weight — we actually didn’t get a letter, but…
KENNEDY: You did get a letter. Are you saying…
SPECTER: Well, now wait a minute; you don’t know what I got. I’m about to…
KENNEDY: Yes I do, Senator, since I sent it.
SPECTER: Well, the sender does not necessarily know what the recipient gets, Senator Kennedy. You are not in a position to say what I receive. If you’ll bear with me for one minute.
KENNEDY: But I am in a position to say what I sent to you on December 22.
SPECTER: You’re in a position to tell me what you sent.
Hey, Teddy… How did you send it? Hopefully you didn’t send it by the woefully inadequate United States Postal Service, did you? You should know not to trust government with anything; your feckless, incompetent butt is running it!
Repeat after me, Ted: UPS. You hear me? United Parcel Service. A private company. You know why? Signature confirmation. You can tell Specter exactly what day he received the letter and who signed for it. Can’t do that with the USPS, can you?
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Or, he could have just gotten up from behind his desk (or underneath the bar) and delivered to Specter himself. Lord knows he needs the exercise.
I totally agree with Doug. But, Brad, I thought you were ticked off at UPS because of your brother’s present or something. And USPS does have signature verification if you want to pay a little bit more than the price of a stamp.
I’m ticked off at USPS, not UPS. Not only did they take forever to send me a package I was waiting on, they still haven’t delivered my brother’s birthday present. It was last seen in Dallas on Dec 22, and only needed to get to Corpus Christi, not exactly across the country…
Yes, USPS does with certified mail for which you can get a signature verification. I’d still rather trust UPS or FedEx, based upon past performance of USPS, though.
It was all for show; from what I’ve heard the information Teddy was demanding was published in the New York Times last November. The interesting thing is that it was supplied to the NYT by a staffer working for Teddy; at least that’s the story I heard.