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Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the Prescriptions Blog of the New York Times: A Call From Senator Kennedy’s Widow Moments after the vote to begin debate on the major health care legislation, a reporter asked the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, if he had spoken with President Obama. “I was pretty well focused on getting the votes,” Mr. [...]
Start Thinking Right (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
I wrote this several months ago, after Ted Kennedy passed away. I decided not to publish it, out of respect for the recently deceased. But the Democrat leadership rushing out to invoke Kennedy’s name during and after the vote last night made me realize that the time had come to put it out there. Nancy Pelosi, [...]
NO QUARTER (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reprinted from The Daily Beast with the express permission of Amy Siskind. The House Speaker pushed the Stupak amendment through—then moved to block the woman bidding for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. Amy Siskind on how the most powerful woman in politics betrays the sisterhood. Is there an extra seat on Air Force One? Given women’s fury [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just after a big week- an interview with Sarah Palin that drew big ratings and an announcement that she'd end her talk show in 2011- Oprah has some more news today. In her first interview since Senator Ted Kennedy's death, his widow Vicki Kennedy will sit down with Oprah Wednesday, AP reports . Her stepson, Ted Kennedy Jr., and her two children from a previous marriage, Caroline and Curran will join...
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | yesterday
(CNN) – With just over two weeks until a special primary election to fill the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat, a new poll indicates that Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has a solid lead in a four-way battle for the Democratic nomination. But a Boston Globe survey released over the weekend also suggests that nearly three [...]
Hub Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Catholic Church is taking center stage in the race to fill Ted Kennedy's seat. While Kennedy's son duels the church in Rhode Island, Martha Coakley is going to have some explaining to do in Massachusetts on an old case in which she should have picked a fight a lot earlier with the church. My hunch is the story won't make much of a difference for Martha, though it does bring back bad memories of...
Politico (Free subscription) | yesterday
In an Ideas piece, Kirk remembers Ted Kennedy's call for quality affordable health care for all Americans.
The Political Game (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
With every passing year, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy becomes a distant memory. For those who were in Dallas that November day, it remains a memory they cannot escape. New generations of Americans have been introduced to the myth of Camelot and the political legacy of young John Kennedy, but their understanding of what the assassination meant to this nation comes from history books...
Bostonist (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Tomorrow, two debates will take place that might help you make a decision in the special election race to fill Ted Kennedy's senate seat. First, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce sponsors a debate between the Republican candidates Scott Brown and Jack E. Robinson tomorrow at 8am. It's too late to register (aka pay through the nose) to attend, sadly, but we'll try to round up some reactions for...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The decision by family members not to seek the seat held by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy for nearly five decades has prompted predictions that the family's political dynasty is over. Ted Kennedy - United States - Dynasty - Senate - Government
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Senator Dodd said right before the vote: I ALSO WANT TO PAUSE FOR A MOMENT, IF I CAN, MR. PRESIDENT, TO RECOGNIZE A COLLEAGUE WHO IS HERE TONIGHT ONLY IN SPIRIT, TED KENNEDY... TONIGHT WE AND IN THE DAYS TO COME WILL PAY HIM THE HIGHEST COMPLIMENT AS OUR COLLEAGUE BY FULFILLING THAT QUEST OF ACHIEVING THE GOAL THAT ALL AMERICANS ASPIRE FOR, AND THAT IS A NATIONAL HEALTH CARE PLAN THAT SERVES EVERY...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The conservative Republican commentator opines that one of the reasons that liberals are hostile to public expressions of Christianity is because it threatens the monopoly that the religion of liberalism enjoys in the public squares : "Analyze [late Sen. Ted] Kennedy’s Epistle to the Gentiles and you will see that the concern, the work, the cause, the hope, the dream that is the subject...
Blue Mass. Group - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Email: COAKLEY, CAPUANO, KHAZEI AND PAGLIUCA TO PARTICIPATE IN CONSORTIUM DEBATE AT NECN STUDIOS ON WEDNESDAY, DEC 2 BOSTON GLOBE, WBUR, WGBH-TV AND NECN CO-SPONSOR FINAL TELEVISED DEBATE BEFORE SPECIAL SENATE ELECTION PRIMARY NEWTON, MA - The four Democratic candidates contending for the late Senator Ted Kennedy's Senate seat will debate for one final time before the primary in a one-hour debate co-sponsored...
Badger Blogger (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The AP has dedicated 11 reporters to investigate and fact check every line of Sarah Palin’s book Going Rogue: An American Life, but not one reporter was tasked to investigate books by Barry Obama, Sen. Ted Kennedy, then-Sen. Joe Biden, or the autobiographies by Bill or Hillary Clinton. They sure want to find something, anything, [...]
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Ted Kennedy, Jr. is not making an endorsement in the race to succeed his father. (CNN) – Ted Kennedy, Jr. said Tuesday he has no plans to endorse a candidate in the field of Democrats vying to replace his father in the U.S. Senate. "It's hard for me to get excited, honestly, about it, because it's a [...]
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highman | 08/30/2009
WATERTOWN, Mass.—The Armenian National Committee (ANC) of Massachusetts joined with citizens of the Commonwealth and Armenian Americans across the U.S. in mourning the passing of Senate icon and lifelong advocate of Armenian issues, Senator Ted Kennedy. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) with his son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy(D-R.I.) speaking at the ANCA Armenian Genocide Observance on Capitol Hill on April 21,
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