Oh, no.
Earlier today, Senator Kennedy was was rushed to the hospital with stroke symptoms. Later reports say that the Senator may have has some kind of severe seizure.
First from CNN:
Sen. Edward Kennedy was rushed to Cape Cod Hospital in Massachusetts Saturday morning, a well-informed, prominent Democratic source in that state told CNN.
The source said the [...]

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Senator Ted Kennedy, who heads the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has a couple of things to say about last year’s Crandall Canyon Mine. So does Orrin Hatch.
Ted Kennedy is showing how a Senator is supposed to act.
Orrin Hatch is showing that he’d suck off a thousand Yale Graduates to keep the former [...]

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I’ve read somewhere that in prison, when you’re someone else’s bitch, you have to grab their belt loop. A few years ago, the Telecommunications industry broke a bunch of laws at the request of the federal government.
Now if you asked me who should really have to pay, I’d say every last one of them who [...]

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This is one of the best, most readable breakdown of Federal Spending I’ve ever seen. Not only can you zoom in to follow the bucks, you can buy a giant copy of this thing to point at when you’re screaming about out of control Federal Spending. Fun for everyone from TheBudgetGraph.com:
 

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We all have our pet issues, and this is one of mine.
A horse I like to flog, so to speak.
An UNDEAD horse, because it won’t die.
It seems that not even removing the head can stop this monster, so instead, I’m just going to go rent Shaun of the Dead again.
Hey, but while I wait for [...]

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From the Biden Campaign:
It’s often said that “seeing is believing.”
Thursday night in Des Moines, we held a rally to kick off my Dad’s Caucus Countdown tour — dozens of events scheduled across the state for the final push before Iowa voters report to their caucus precinct.
It was a standing-room-only event, the most recent example of [...]

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I sent Joe Biden a letter a few years ago, an even handed good thing/bad thing letter. It was, as I recall, a really long letter.
Senator Biden left me a hand written note at the bottom of the return mail, thanking me for being balanced and thanking me for writing.
Every year since, he sends [...]

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Senator Joe Biden at the Des Moines Register Debate

On issues ranging from the economy to energy to the war in Iraq, you can see once again that Joe Biden is the candidate who will be able to act on day one as president. Our campaign ads are on the air in Iowa, we’re moving [...]

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From the AP via TPM:
Senate Republicans blocked a bill Friday that would restrict the interrogation methods the CIA can use against terrorism suspects.
The legislation, part of a measure authorizing the government’s intelligence activities for 2008, had been approved a day earlier by the House and sent to the Senate for what was supposed to be [...]

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From Democracy For America, I received this email:
Last month, you took action and the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill that did not include retroactive immunity. Immunity would let telecommunication companies who broke the law helping the Bush Administration spy on Americans off the hook.
Now, Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic Majority Leader, is using procedural [...]

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I don’t think I’ve had my breath taken away from news as quick as this did it. Senator Eddie has been an inspiration to me and I cannot fathom the size of the hole Eddie’s passing will cause in the lives of those who knew him.
Senator Mayne once teared up when we talked about dogs [...]

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 Rudy Giuliani, former mayor who got a bunch of cops and firefighters killed because he wouldn’t upgrade their communications gear, is a risible tool in the box of the GOP. At a town hall meeting Wednesday, when questioned about Michael Mukasey, the Attorney General nominee’s non answer to: is waterboarding torture?  Giuliani had this to [...]

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I’m really sorry. Earlier today I ranted about how the Dems were taking it up the wazoo (again) by offering immunity to corporations who help the government spy on us, and that everything just didn’t make sense. I further suggested that the Dems should be acting like Alpha Dogs, not rolling over for tummy tickles. [...]

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It’s like the US has gone crazy. The Republican party is apparently the party for closeted yet violently homophobic gays (I’ll leave it to Jeff to list the more recent developments and big words like “pederasts”, but I think 3 more were ‘outed’ in the past few weeks), and the Democrats are still taking [...]

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Here’s a reply from Sen. Bennett’s office I got today.
Thank you for your e-mail. If you would like a response please use the web based e-mail form on my official Senate website at http://bennett.senate.gov/contact/email_form.html
The number of Utahns that communicate with me via e-mail has increased dramatically over the last few years. The use of [...]

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