Archive » Ted Kennedy

**Written by Doug Powers This flashback could be coming to the campaign ads of many GOP hopefuls, not to mention Obama, fairly soon: ***** Reason.com points this out: One other thing to note is that Romney praises Kennedy for helping make the case that federal support was necessary to fund the state-based coverage expansion. Romney [...]

Selling point?

**Written by Doug Powers The Edward M. Kennedy Institute will make no mention of these things, but if you ask me they’re worthy of an entire wing: The late Sen. Ted Kennedy arranged to “rent” a brothel for a night while on a visit to Chile and other Latin American countries decades ago, according to [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Apologies for the title — it’s the Boston Herald’s wording, not mine: The late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s son, Ted Jr., is among the names being floated as potential candidates for Connecticut U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s seat in 2012. Kennedy, the middle child of the late senator and his former [...]

Wind farms near blowhards: It only makes sense

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 lionizations [...]

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” — [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. *** Ed Morrissey weighs in on McCain’s absence from CPAC: McCain has argued that he has the most solid conservative record [...]

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 [...]

***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. [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

***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 [...]

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 [...]