Archive » Ted Kennedy

First, KennedyCare.
Next up: ShamnesTeddy.
Morton Kondracke is leading the charge:
Along with a health care reform bill, it would be a fitting tribute to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) if Congress could act on his other great unfinished cause: immigration reform.
For all his liberal Democratic passion, Kennedy understood — as few of his colleagues seem to [...]

I’ll let these speak for themselves:
Kennedy’s Death Spurs Calls to Pass Health Legislation
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office sent an email to reporters at around 2:30 a.m. today, just hours after his death, calling for the passage of health care overhaul. “Ted Kennedy’s dream of quality health care for all Americans will be made real this [...]

The U.S. Senator from Massachusetts succumbed to brain cancer at the age of 77 tonight. Put aside your ideological differences for an appropriate moment and mark this passing with solemnity.
There is a time and place for political analysis and criticism. Not now.
Yes, there will be a nauseating excess of MSM hagiographies and [...]

Big government bedfellows.

Well, ok. Not really “fun.” Depressing, actually:
More than one out of every five dollars of the $125 million Massachusetts is receiving from a federal spending bill is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys.
I call it Hyannis Pork.

Put aside your political differences and join me in keeping Sen. Ted Kennedy and his family in your prayers as they grapple with the news of his malignant brain tumor diagnosis.

Jason Mattera afflicts the comfortable.

“Callow.”

Er, um.

No-no.

The name game.

Cold air.

Teddy’s new best friends.

Reader and Vietnam Vet Jack Haley e-mails:
The White Feather has been a symbol for cowardice. I suggest that white feathers be sent to the leaders of the Senate and House for the cowardly vote that abandons our soldiers around the world.
I was in Vietnam the day that the 101st took “Hamburger Hill” — the headline [...]

They’re back.
ERA is back from the dead, and that great champion of women’s rights, Teddy (Owl Club) Kennedy is leading the resurrection:
WASHINGTON, March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Senator Ted Kennedy (D- MA), Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Ellie Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority and strong leader on [...]

When I was writing Invasion five years ago, I interviewed immigration officials who joked that the rule for border-crossing prosecutions in southern California and Arizona was “thirteen strikes and you’re out.” So this new story from the Associated Press headlined “Border crossings rarely prosecuted” in Texas is no surprise. Same old, same old:
Guidelines issued [...]

That’s the headline on a noteworthy article about Mexican president Felipe Calderon’s top policy priorities–not the amnesty that President Bush and Ted Kennedy are rushing to shove down the American people’s throat, but a plan to make life better for Mexicans in their home country:
Mexican President Felipe Calderon won’t be fighting for migration reform when [...]

The Maaaverick is not going to the Conservative Political Action Conference, which begins tomorrow.
But he did have time to tape his announcement on the David Letterman Show. Video at Hot Air.
Interesting priorities.
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Ed Morrissey weighs in on McCain’s absence from CPAC:
McCain has argued that he has the most solid conservative record of all the major contenders, [...]

From my column today:
Look out: Hillary Clinton is pulling the armor cloak from her rhetorical closet again. As long as she pairs it with a skirt, Italian designer Donatella Versace approves. But for any leading presidential candidate with a shred of integrity, this political wardrobe malfunction goes in the “fashion don’t” column.
In her latest campaign [...]

***856am Eastern 2/17 updated with troop feedback from Iraq below and armored Humvee photos***
254pm Eastern 2/17 update: GOP blocks Senate vote on House anti-surge resolution
bumped back to the top
Whenever leftists need to show they really, really do care more about the troops than their political opponents, they pull out the armor card. Hillary Clinton did [...]

First, check out this reaction to yesterday’s illegal alien worker raids published in the Des Moines Register:

Caption: Hector Angel, a Marshalltown business owner, states his point of view about the raid as ICE buses roll away from the plant.
A natural response from open-borders zealots who’ve been giving the finger to immigration law for years. Right [...]

The Windbag from Massachusetts wins hands down today. John Hinderaker at Power Line nails him:
The Democrats evidently aren’t happy with the release of the “key judgments” of the National Intelligence Estimate on global terrorism, because now they’ve demanded that the White House release the entire report.
That will get them what they’re looking for, i.e., headlines [...]

***originally posted 752am…bumping this back to the top…11am Eastern – White House says it is considering declassifying the NIE…1210pm new update: Bush will release parts of the report…video…***
President Bush on Tuesday said it is naive and a mistake to think that the war with Iraq has worsened terrorism, disputing a national intelligence assessment by [...]

***update: Of course, she says she misspoke***
Oh, yes, she did.
Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate in Tuesday’s CA-50 special election has been caught on tape telling a Spanish-speaking audience “You don’t need papers for voting.”
Responding to a question from a translator about how to help her campaign, Francine Busby also told non-English-speaking volunteers that they don’t [...]

Seattle’s KING 5 TV nabbed a must-see interview with one of the Marines injured at Haditha on Nov. 19. (Big hat tip noted below to Red Hot Cuppa Politics.)
The Marine is Lance Cpl. James Crossan, who rode in the passenger seat of the Humvee that was struck by an IED. The driver was Lance [...]

An extraordinary exchange just took place on the Senate floor over the last 40 minutes. It’s the most important debate of the year, in my opinion.
The questions are these: Who do we let into this country and how many?
On one side of the debate: Democrat Sen. Jeff Bingaman of N.M. and Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions [...]

Ted Kennedy opens his mouth…
Allah sez:
Go, watch, laugh, and try to follow his logic when he comes out strongly in favor of a virtual fence — which, if it turns out to be a successful deterrent, logically should result in just as many immigrant deaths as the non-virtual version.

***scroll for updates…report of another Kennedy crash two weeks ago in Rhode Island…an interesting observation below about Kennedy’s “going for a vote” excuse…video: Roll Call reporter…***

***1000pm EDT update…Kennedy blames sleep medication…RWV notes another weird Kennedy accident…7am EDT update 5/5…report: he was drinking***

Rep. Patrick Kennedy
Drudge reporting on a Roll Call scoop…
Officers Claim Brass Interfered in Investigation [...]

This morning’s MSM suck-up watch spotlights Reuters’ rehabilitation of Teddy Kennedy. Here’s the headline of reporter (term used loosely) Thomas Ferraro’s slobbery piece:
At 74, U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy still roars
Let the obsequiousness begin:
At 74, Edward Kennedy still roars as one of America’s leading liberal voices, longest serving U.S. senators and most polarizing political figures.
While most [...]

The Washington Examiner editorial page, headed up by recently departed blogging newshound Mark Tapscott, issues a challenge to President Bush:
t received little coverage in the mainstream news dailies, but many bloggers highlighted the significant influence of “Reconquista” advocates and concepts in the recent pro-immigration marches across the country. Reconquista aims must be honestly confronted by [...]