Posted on 09/20/2010 5:20:34 AM PDT by IbJensen
"The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed," former President Jimmy Carter told 60 Minutes last night. "It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill."
Carter's observation, fleshed out in his newly published diaries from his presidency, may seem shocking to Democrats who posthumously credit Kennedy with the health-care bill passed earlier this year. But for anyone who has followed the last brother's forty-seven years in the Senate, Carter's complaint rings true. Ted Kennedy was a party cannibal who built his career devouring fellow Democrats.
Prior to becoming a United States Senator in 1962, Kennedy had cast ballots in just three of sixteen elections in which he had been eligible. Tellingly, his brother John had been on the ballot in each of the contests in which he bothered to vote. The young playboy even sat on his hands when Adlai Stevenson, who had passed over John Kennedy for his running-mate, ran for president in 1956. Ted's apathy served the Democrats' interests better than his older brother Bobby's vindictiveness, which led him to vote Republican for Dwight Eisenhower.
"If Mr. Kennedy wants people to vote for him for the highest legislative office in the world," Kennedy's 1962 Democratic primary opponent opined, "I feel he owes an explanation to the people of Massachusetts and to the city of Boston as to why he did not vote for anyone other than a Kennedy in the period between 1953 and 1960."
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We can thank God that Teddy screwed Carter on health care. Carter seems to have garnered the courage to finally get even. Nasty, stupid Carter.
Jimmah is self delusional, as usual.
After the midterm elections cut him down to size, he really had nothing to say.
I expect this is Barky’s fate after November.
May they both sail in hell, and soon.
Every assignment handed this insignificant little jerk by a clueless and doomed socialist administration amplifies what an incompetent weasel he truly is.
The same goes for the rapist Billy Goat Clinton.
pure evil...
“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him” ping.
Like so many of the late Senator's paramours, the Democratic Party loved Ted Kennedy more the worse he treated it. "What would Teddy do?" Washington Senator Patty Murray told the New York Times in the midst of the ObamaCare debate. "We're all working to do what we think he'd want us to do." Working as his own booster, Ted Kennedy, or his ghostwriter, boasted in Newsweek weeks before his 2009 death: "For four decades I have carried this cause -- from the floor of the United States Senate to every part of this country."IOW, a socialist apparatchik for whom "public service" was an opportunity for self-aggrandizemet.But take it from Jimmy Carter. Ted Kennedy was never Mr. Universal Health Care. He was always Mr. Ted Kennedy.
What an utterly stupid woman Washington has sent to Washington to join the equally stupid Democrat and Republicrat women!
The simple little fart just can't let history speak for itself, even through his own words! Edited down to about 10% of the original 5000 page four year rant, this offering will be illuminating in comparison to Brinckley's edition of The Reagan Diaries. RR was content to let history speak for itself, and never considered going back and doctoring his entries.
But ass-covering seems to be intrinsic to the liberal mind, and we will get some real insights into the peanut's brain from this self-indulgent exercise.
How can America be so damned unlucky?
In my long lifetime there’s been only one great president: Ronald Reagan!
Before that there was a desert between Taft and Coolidge.
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