Kennedy flips mistaken vote -- again

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | October 26, 2003 | Robert Novak

[Bubba_Leroy]

The Senate chamber filled with audible gasps Tuesday when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the pro-choice champion, clearly voted ''yes'' on final passage of the bill to ban partial-birth abortion. It was a mistake, however, and Kennedy changed his vote a few minutes later.

This marked the second time in a week that Kennedy, widely considered the most powerful member of the Senate, became confused on an important vote. He mistakenly voted with President Bush in opposing a Democratic-backed amendment to require partial Iraqi repayment of U.S. reconstruction aid. On that occasion, Senate Democratic Leader Thomas Daschle conferred with Kennedy and prompted him to change his vote.

A footnote: All three of the senators still running for the Democratic presidential nomination voted against the partial-birth abortion ban, including Sen. Joseph Lieberman, supposedly the most socially conservative of the contenders.

[First_Salute]

permanent vegetative state?

[truthandjustice1]

Kennedy: "Erah, erah. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it"

[Bubba_Leroy]

[Thebaddog]

I think that Novak is stroking Kennedy when he calls him the most powerful member of the Senate, but the comment is really weird to me.

[woofie]

Senility is doing Teddy some good

[Dolphy]

This marked the second time in a week that Kennedy, widely considered the most powerful member of the Senate, became confused on an important vote.

This is the second time in a week his confusion was documented, he's consistently confused.

[dts32041]

Understadn if you drink enough you start losing your mind, of course, i alwasy figured he lost it off a bridge in MA

[Bubba_Leroy]

I think that Novak is stroking Kennedy when he calls him the most powerful member of the Senate

Maybe he was referring to Kennedy's smell.

[joesnuffy]

when wet brains attack

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Well, alcohol DOES destroy brain cells- and it's not like Teddy had any to spare!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Understadn if you drink enough you start losing your mind, of course, i alwasy figured he lost it off a bridge in MA

LOL! Looks like you've started early yourself!

[Mr. Mojo]

lol.....yep.

[Yaelle]

permanent vegetative state?

If so, we need to remove his feeding (and drinking!) tube immediately.

[dts32041]

Hey just cause I can't spell don't pick on me I am the product of a publik skool educashun.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I'll drink to that! :)

[Bubba_Leroy]

If so, we need to remove his feeding (and drinking!) tube immediately.

Based on the photo above, he could live off of his fat another 10 years without a feeding tube. Removing the drinking tube might do it though.

[cyncooper]

So if some Republican Senator was careening around the Senate voting the "wrong way" repeatedly, do you think major media would take note and maybe question his mental faculties?

Rhetorical question, of course.

[John Jorsett]

Why doesn't he just hand his voting card to a staffer and eliminate the middle man? They practically have to prop him up like a department store mannequin anyway.

[God luvs America]

I'm sure the fat drunk, who always states he's "pro-choice", would vote for school vouchers, giving taxpayors a choice in how their school tax dollars are spent and letting choose where to send their children to the school they like.