Scarborough looks like Mika has his cojones in a lock box. She just might.
Posted on 09/17/2010 9:32:12 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Can I now complain about the 2006 Democrat House and Senate blocked everything positive in the Bush administration to keep him from getting any credit and heaping on all the blame?
Scarborough looks like Mika has his cojones in a lock box. She just might.
not that it will do any good, but feel free
Full disclosure, I am NO admirer of Jimmie, the ego, Carter.
That does not mean he is incapable of getting SOME things right and telling the truth - when telling the truth is in his interest.
With regard to:
"But when it comes to emoting, the Morning Joe co-host outdid herself today, reacting to the criticism the panel leveled at Jimmy Carter for his ungracious bashing of the late Ted Kennedy."
"In a 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl, a clip from which Morning Joe aired, an embittered Carter flatly says the failure to get national health care during his administration was Ted Kennedy's "fault." Carter accused Kennedy of "deliberately blocking" Carter's proposed legislation, in order to deny him a major legislative achievement."
Carter is right, and every Democratic insider in Congress at the time knows it.
Ted Kennedy worked for himself and his Presidential ambitions, full time, once he obtained his own Senate seat and believed the Presidency to be a legacy that rightfully belonged to him.
Having subverted Carter legislatively in Carter's last term, he, Teddy, went to the Democratic Convention - for Carter's second term - hoping to rest the Dim Candidacy from Carter. I know, I was a "guest" there at Madison Square Garden, with my Reagan campaign button on, the night before and the night of the voting of the delegates. There was no hiding who Kennedy was going after when he spoke and even though Carter had a majority of the delegates by the primary process, Kennedy worked to get delegates that Carter won in the primaries to switch to him. When you believe the Presidency is your personal, inherited legacy, there are no rules worth keeping.
Sure, Carter had enough going against him, but if anyone was going to lower the Democrats enthusiasm for the eventual nominee - Carter, at the polls, it was Kennedy.
Is Carter justified in still being bitter towards Ted Kennedy today. Sure he is.
Not that it mattered. It was going to be Reagan anyway. Maybe it would have been better for Carter, and for the country, if it had been Teddy that Reagan roundly defeated that year.
At least, for Carter, he wouldn't have had that personal defeat festering in his bruised ego.
“about as broke as it is now??”
Much worse than that I fear, tina07. 34 years of health control would have wiped us out by now. We are still hanging on by our fingernails, though some are broken.
To me they look like they are married and Mika gave Joe “The Look”!!!
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