Ted Kennedy

Has died at age 77.

I am certain that there will be no shortage of conservative bloggers who are chortling today as they type their nasty-ass entries.[1] On one level, I understand that, for I would probably feel much the same way if the news were about the passing of Jeff Sessions.[2]

On the other hand, they can go fuck themselves. Ted Kennedy, unlike the members of a prominent Republican family I can name, did not spend his days working to ensure that his wealthy buddies got even richer. Ted Kennedy did not spend his political life destroying the programs that help the poor while providing larger and larger tax breaks for the wealthy. Ted Kennedy worked for the people of his state and, yes, for the rest of the nation, not just those who made over $300,000 a year and who could afford to give large campaign contributions.

To the Democrats in the Senate who have gleefully shat all over Ted Kennedy's dream of making routine health care available to all Americans: Go fuck yourselves. No doubt you are now mouthing platitudes to the stenographers reporters about "how great a senator he was." Save it. You guys are pre-paid whores to the health insurance companies and you know it. You're nothing more than backstabbers and weasels in expensive suits.

To the Republicans who are now offering condolences and tributes: Stuff it. You're not fooling anyone.

(Ann Laurie , Jill, `Nucks are all worth the read)

[1]This afternoon, I visited a few conservative blogs, but not the batshit wingnut ones. For the most part, I saw what I expected to see. Pretty sad, considering that Ted Kennedy cared more about the American people than any busload of folks from the last Administration and their goat-fucking colleagues in the Congress.

[2]Sessions is in the Senate, which is why I named him.