Did he drive back... 
or did Patrick chauffeur him?
Posted on 10/30/2007 8:43:09 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Edward Kennedy was back at work in the Senate on Tuesday for the first time since his surgery earlier this month to clear a partially blocked artery in his neck.
"I'm feeling fine," the Massachusetts Democrat said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "I think it's just about getting the energy level back ... The strength has been coming back daily."
Kennedy's Tuesday schedule includes planned remarks on the Senate floor about children's health insurance and Amtrak funding, the weekly luncheon with Senate Democrats and a meeting about education legislation. Kennedy also plans to watch Tuesday night's televised Democratic presidential debate.
Kennedy, 75, had been resting at the family's Hyannis Port compound since his Oct. 12 surgery in Boston. The blockage in Kennedy's left carotid artery, which supplies blood to the face and brain, was discovered Oct. 4 after a routine physical examination and MRI on his back.
Kennedy was flooded with get-well greetings from Democrats and Republicans alike as he recovered, though "there was a kind of continuing sense from some of the Republicans that I maybe ought to stay in Massachusetts a bit longer," he joked.
Among those making a call was President Bush.
"He was calling to wish me well, but we talked a little shop as well," Kennedy said.
The senator said he used the chat to lobby him about the No Child Left Behind law. Kennedy played a key role crafting the five-year-old education law, which faces a tough renewal fight in Congress.
Kennedy also took time to watch the Boston Red Sox sweep the Colorado Rockies in the World Series.
"What a time for the Red Sox," Kennedy said.
Kennedy said the staples on his neck were removed by doctors on Cape Cod. He has a routine follow-up appointment with his doctors in about 10 days, but does not anticipate any problems.
One of Kennedy's doctors said after the surgery that the senator's overall health was excellent. Kennedy is on blood-pressure and cholesterol medication.
Kennedy has been bothered by an aching back since a 1964 plane crash, which killed a pilot and one of Kennedy's aides.
Then-Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., who was traveling with Kennedy, pulled him from the wreckage but Kennedy suffered a back injury, punctured lung, broken ribs and internal bleeding. Because of the persistent pain, the senator often leans on a wall or sits on a stool when he otherwise would be expected to stand for an extended period.
Kennedy is the lone surviving son in his storied political family. His eldest brother, Joseph, was killed in a World War II airplane crash; President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and Robert was assassinated in 1968, when he was running for president.
May I be the first to offer the traditional FR “prayers going up”, and condolences to the family?
Whew! Now I can rest at ease again.
I'm guesing those are code words for Johnnie Walker Red and Johnnie Walker Black.
Did he drive back... or did Patrick chauffeur him?
Quotation marks need to be applied around “work.”
Does this mean we can start picking on him again?
The lying of the Senate is back to set them strait.
“....code words for Johnnie Walker Red and Johnnie Walker Black”
Because of the PC’ishness it is now just Johnnie Walker.
Kennedy would have had the best surgeons but still this carotid artery surgery can be risky. If too much blood is lost the patient can have a stroke. But this guy, unlike his brothers, seems to have nine lives. Maybe it’s true that “The good die young.”
If so... 
the fat sumbitch, Hill and Bill will out live the universe!
Cute graphic.
I’m not taking any pleasure in Kennedy’s injury, but I’m not shedding any tears either. Not because of his politics, but because of what he did to Mary Jo.
BTW, after Wellstone’s plane crash, I sent condolences to an acquaintance who had done work for Wellstone. Considering the way the libs behaved at his funeral, our side showed more respect for him than they did.
According to Gore, that won’t be long anyways :)
No doubt about it... 
if he keeps screwing polar bears!
Consider all the tragedies his family has undergone, those that took lives and the way this guy has actually had more yet keeps on going to undermine American liberty and insure our progeny live under Neolithic savagery.
Satan looks after his agents on this world.
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