Breaking News: The Greatest Legislator Of Our Time Diagnosed With Cancer

May 20, 2008

Ted Kennedy, who suffered from a seizure last weekend, has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. The 1 year survival rate is about 60%, and the 76-year-old senator from Massachusetts is likely to undergo radiation and chemotherapy treatment. His likelihood of survival past three years is minimal.

Kennedy joined the senate in 1962, and has since then passed more legislation than any other senator in the history of our nation, even passing the most legislation in the 111th congress as a 76 year old. Despite his 45 year tenure in the senate, he never became President Pro Tem, due to the slightly more senior Robert Byrd, who joined the senate in 1959. Kennedy was a presidential candidate in 1980, losing in the primary to President Carter who had a sudden upturn in approval ratings. He is the last remaining Kennedy from the “Camelot” days, back when his brother Jack Kennedy was president and his brother Bobby Kennedy was Attorney General. He raised 17 children (only two were his own, 13 belonged to his dead brothers, 2 to his wife) had 5 grandchildren, and had a countless number of dogs. He will be missed in Washington, as both a memory of a different, more progressive time, and as an effective lawmaker willing to cross the aisle to write law.

tune in later today (or perhaps tomorrow morning) for results and analysis of Oregon and Kentucky’s primaries.

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