Q: How will U.S. Sen. (Edward) Kennedy's death affect things?
A: I think it's going to help us. He hasn't been around for some time. We're going to have a new chairman of that committee, it'll be, I don't know for sure, but I think Sen. (Chris) Dodd, (D-Conn.). He has a right to take it. Either him or (U.S. Sen. Tom) Harkin, (D-Iowa), whichever one wants it can have it. I think he (Kennedy) will be a help. He's an inspiration for us. That was the issue of his life and he didn't get it done.
So, is Kennedy’s death going to be a help because eventually the Democrats will get that warm-body 60th vote or is his death going to help because the Democrats can politicize it or possibly both?
As Glenn Thrush notes, Reid has a gift for saying non-controversial things in the most controversial of ways.
Need more proof? One of our all-time favorites:
“But by the time I came along - December 2, 1939 - the leading industry in my hometown of Searchlight, Nevada, was no longer mining, it was prostitution.”
Priceless.
And speaking of politicizing Kennedy’s death, remember how the right was blasted for even suggesting such a thing? Well, it looks like there has been a groundswell of grassroots support for just that.
We think Congressional Democrats should heed the desires of their constituents and get behind this idea.
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Oh but bring up Ted and Mary Jo or Ted and cheating in college or Ted and the KGB is HATE speech.
Dude was a scallywag, and set the example for Chicago politics trying to outdo scallywaggyness!
Dawg.... makin' up his own words, "scallywagginess"
Based on a native white Southerner who collaborated with the occupying forces during post civil war reconstruction, often for personal gain.
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