Archive for the 'Ted Kennedy' Category

Come on, Bill. Maybe you don’t want Hillary to win?

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Leading Democrats To Bill Clinton: Pipe Down
By Jonathan Alter
NEWSWEEK
Updated: 1:43 PM ET Jan 19, 2008
Prominent Democrats are upset with the aggressive role that Bill Clinton is playing in the 2008 campaign, a role they believe is inappropriate for a former president and the titular head of the Democratic Party. In recent weeks, Sen. Edward Kennedy […]

Is Judge Mukasey truly not listening to reality?

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Kennedy turns against Mukasey
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent 6 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - President Bush, seeking Thursday to salvage the embattled nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, defended the former judge’s refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding as illegal torture. But the nomination suffered another setback in the Senate.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., […]

Senator Kennedy: This President’s Priorities Aren’t The Same As Mainstream America’s–HUFFINGTON POST headline

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

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The Kennedy piece is here.

Forgeddaboudit!

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

 Ted, I don’t think you’re talking to the right guy about displaced persons. Quick! What’s the population of New Orleans?
We Can’t Ignore Iraq’s Refugees
By Edward M. Kennedy
Saturday, December 30, 2006; Page A21
With the nation still at war in Iraq, each of us is deeply grateful to the brave men and women in our armed forces […]

Our vice-president looks, talks and acts like a thug from the early Perry Mason episodes.

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

“Demeaning Democracy
Cheney Paints Lamont Victory As Helping Terrorists
By Edward M. Kennedy
Hartford Courant
August 13 2006
Vice presidents are notorious for serving as an administration’s chief attack dog, and time and again Dick Cheney has been unleashed to accuse anyone who is opposed to the Bush administration of aiding the terrorists. But this time he has gone too […]

The true legacy of the Bush regime will be its likeness to a debilitating and excrutiatingly painful cancer which will not kill.

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

“Roberts and Alito Misled Us
By Edward M. Kennedy
Sunday, July 30, 2006; B01
I have had the honor of serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee for 43 years, during which I’ve participated in confirmation hearings for all the justices who now sit on the Supreme Court. Over that time, my colleagues and I have asked probing questions […]