Ted Kennedy’s Ugly Legacy « NewsReal Blog: "Keeping The Cable Guys Honest
Kennedy Football
On yesterday’s Morning Joe program, MSNBC newsman Chris Matthews told host Joe Scarborough that with the death of Ted Kennedy, Senate Democrats have lost their inspirational and tactical leader in the fight to institute a government-run healthcare system. Said Matthews: “Everybody here is a student of history and we’ve grown up with a lot of romance about the U.S. Senate.… I don’t see a leader of that caliber on the Hill right now who can be the quarterback on the field, while perhaps this President calls in the plays. I don’t see that quarterback.”
It was a fascinating and, in many ways, an apt metaphor – to suggest that Kennedy was the quarterback, the man who determinedly coordinated and led his Senate teammates during legislative “crunch time.” Certainly, for instance, a young Ted Kennedy was the quarterback who spearheaded the hundred-yard drive resulting in the passage of the 1965 Immigration Reform Act. That legislation shifted the balance of immigration heavily in favor of an influx from the Third World, which became the point"
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