American Views Abroad

Better it be named the cowardly kennedy alcoholic womanizer Chappiquidick health care bill!
 

Here's what David Brooks wrote on Ted Kennedy in today's IHT: '...Then I would ask him about a detail from a piece of legislation many years back. Suddenly he could talk with incredible knowledge about subsection C of paragraph 6 in article 13. He was the best at handling negotiations, crafting compromises, putting together the details, understanding the various constituencies at play, divining a legislative path through committee and onto the floor. This is not the stuff of poetry but prose. It's the sort of human capital that is in short supply in Congress right now, where relatively few people know how to craft complicated legistation. ....His was the story of a callow youth who found a substantive way to perform public service.'