Cape Wind, the wind farm blowing a gale of controversy over Nantucket Sound, has broiled into a full-blown nor’easter. Massachusetts is well known among seafarers for its choppy waters, dangerous weather and liberal politics. But when Ted Kennedy, the Dems’ stalwart lefty, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., patron saint of autistic children and polluted schoolyards, both came out against what would be the first major offshore wind farm in America, it was clear all bets were off. Now, a new development has occurred to suggest this is no ordinary major hurricane – not even a once-in-a-decade monster tempest. When the Bush administration came out in defense of the wind farm, calling to strip the provision from the Coast Guard bill that would kill the project, experts observing the political maelstrom take shape stood up in disbelief and cried out, “Oh… my… god… IT’S… HAPPENING!!!”
While the Kennedys have always been in favor of protecting the health of the planet and its people, and surely recognize the dire threat of global warming, they have an oceanfront compound in Hyannis Port whose view would be theoretically mired by the distant windmills. Now Ted Kennedy has perched his yacht out in Cape Cod to stop the bulldozers and threatened a beluga caviar strike until political maneuvers kill the wind farm, limiting his caviar to a strict diet of whitefish and salmon roe.
Bush took time out from his afternoon world peace meditation and macrobiotic snack to say, “Wind can amend what oil will spoil.” Meanwhile, RFK Jr. interrupted his busy schedule of posing on the covers of “ special green issues” for various magazines to say, “Could someone get this endangered eagle out of here? It’s friggin’ molting all over my Armani suit.”
White House Opposes Move to Scrap Wind Project (Cape Cod Times)
Kennedy Doesn’t Play By The Rules (Boston Globe)