Victoria Kennedy calls Reid after the healthcare vote
From DK:
I’m still amazed that not even one f****g [ed. note - the Republican party does not have any moderates any more. We all know that there aren't any liberals. They are all different favors of ultraconservatives.] Republican could find minimum decency to at least vote for health care DEBATE in the US senate. Quite astonishing. What a disgrace. I’m not even talking about Olympia Snowe, who became half-president in recent months and now refuse to let the debate begin – But Orin Hatch? John McCain? People who served decades with Teddy Kennedy? How disgusting.
Right after the vote, Victoria Kennedy called Harry Reid in tears:
Mr. Reid first mentioned the call in an aside to Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut and one of Mr. Kennedy’s closest friends in the Senate, as they stood at a news conference after the vote. While Mr. Kennedy was battling cancer, Mr. Dodd stepped in as acting chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and helped shepherd the health care bill through a committee vote in July.
“She believes that Ted was watching,” Mr. Reid told Mr. Dodd.
Asked about the call, Mr. Reid said that Mrs. Kennedy had telephoned him in the Democratic cloakroom just after the 60 to 39 vote, which allows debate to begin on the Senate’s health care legislation.
“She called right after the vote,” Mr. Reid said. “I’ll remember the call always. She of course was crying pretty hard. We both felt that he’s watching us tonight.”
