The Lion is Back
17 November 2008 11:07 am by Taylor Marsh
A much slimmer Edward Kennedy came back to the Senate today. He looks fantastic. It was great to see him appearing so much healthier than just a few months ago. Losing weight, no doubt, helps. It always does.
“I am looking forward to the session and we’ve got a lot of work to do and looking forward particularly to working with Barack Obama on healthcare,” Kennedy said in a brief chat with reporters Monday morning. “And we’re looking forward to working with all the administration on our agenda so we’re very thankful for all the good thoughts and prayers that we’ve received over the time.”
Senator Kennedy has worked on the issue of healthcare his entire Senate career. No doubt the last few months of facing life and death health issues makes this dream for him important to manifest.
Meanwhile, Senator Hillary Clinton’s passion for the same subject is also relevant. However, we are talking about the Senate, a place where seniority rules, with the reality being that HRC doesn’t have it, seniority that is, and Teddy does. No doubt it’s one of the prevailing predicaments of Hillary’s current Senate reality. It’s got to make the secretary of state job all that more appealing. Whether the political and financial complexities surrounding the most powerful couple on the global stage can be reconciled to make this happens is another story all together. With the people on Fox News Channel already worried about how Obama would fire her.
