Life Father, Like Junior

by: Thurman Hart

Fri Sep 08, 2006 at 12:46:01 PM EDT

Ok, maybe a kid's toy.

Here's the thing.  Big Daddy Kean is all over the place pushing this stupid 9/11 fantasy movie (I hear it has hobbits and everything).  So his son, walking in the shade of daddy's shadow, criticize's Bob Menendez for the Republican Party falling down on the job of improving national security since 9/11.

So someone tell me - how are they different again?

Daddy Kean in Print

by: Thurman Hart

Fri Jul 14, 2006 at 07:55:14 AM EDT

No, it isn't a joke, it's a book launch.  Daddy Kean, it seems, has a biographer and a book company that has chosen to doom their book by announcing its release in Jersey City. 

Daddy Kean pined for the good ol' days of yore:

"When I was governor, the Democrats and Republicans would work together," Kean said. "There wasn't the same partisanship there is now."

Of course, there isn't any connection with launching the book at this point in his son's doomed Senatorial campaign.  Nope.  Nor is there any connection with doing it in Hudson County where his son will get maybe 1% of the vote if he's lucky.  Nope.  That's all just a coincidence.

But the truest words of the Tom Kean, Junior debacle were spoken by the author of the biography himself:

"We signed the contract for this book in 2001," he said. "Junior was nowhere near politics at that time."

Funny.  Some say he's still "nowhere near politics" at THIS time.

Where's Junior on Social Security? We May Have Found Him.

by: Juan Melli

Fri Jul 07, 2006 at 03:39:21 PM EDT

Tom Kean Jr has been on the "destroy Social Security" bandwagon for quite a while. It turns out that when Junior ran for a House seat in 2000, his position was crystal clear. He wanted to take the "social" out of Social Security:

Mr. Kean supports investing 2 percent of the Social Security Trust Fund in the Stock Market, in the form of personal retirement accounts that would be controlled by individuals rather than the government.