I haven’t studied the details of Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain & Co. And I’m no expert in political tactics; when I write about them, it’s usually to make a larger point about a politician. My only credential for discussing whether Bain will hurt Romney in 2012 is that I lived in Massachusetts in 1994, when he was running for …
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Re: When Mitt “Repeal” Romney…
Michael, I’m reading Swampland while I’m on vacation (doesn’t everyone?), and your post reminded me of a story that I did on Romney and the Massachusetts health care plan back in November, 2007.
Indeed, he and Kennedy had been close allies in bringing universal coverage to the state. Here’s how it came about:
Patrick Kennedy Brings An End To A Dynasty
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Next January will mark the first time in 64 years that there has not been a Kennedy in federal office. With Patrick Kennedy’s …
The Massachusetts Nail-Biter
The Boston Globe’s Adrian Walker has an interesting take on how Martha Coakley came to find herself in this spot three days before an election that everyone expected to be a blowout. And the NYT looks at the implications for the health care bill. We are once again hearing talk of using the reconciliation process in the Senate.
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It’s election time, again!
Tomorrow, Massachusetts voters will go to the polls for primaries to fill Teddy Kennedy’s Senate seat. Bet on whomever can survive on the lowest turnout. No, seriously, having lived in Massachusetts for six bitter winters, I can attest: ain’t nobody gonna be lining up outside in the cold for any of these virtually unheard of …
Ted Kennedy Tells His Own Story
Lois Romano has this story today in the Washington Post on the book that is due out tomorrow. She describes a couple of powerful moments during the writing of it that give us a window into what it was like for Kennedy to be looking at the end of a remarkable life and trying to figure out what it all meant:
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Where do they come up with these things?
Mike Huckabee told his radio audience today that under the Obama health plan, Ted Kennedy would have been told to “go home to take pain pills and die” upon being diagnosed with a brain tumor. Leave aside the fact that, with all the medical intervention that money could buy, the Senator …
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Health Reform: The Outlook
There’s been a lot of suggestion this week that Ted Kennedy’s death might be a moment that brings his former colleagues in Congress together with a renewed sense of purpose, one that forces them to bridge their differences, to work together to pass meaningful health reform as a tribute to him. I think Ted would have been the first to …
Ted and Vicki: A Love Story
Here’s my story for TIME.com on the woman whom Ted Kennedy called “the love of my life.” In many ways, Vicki Reggie Kennedy also saved his life, and brought a fullness and happiness to it that Ted Kennedy had never known before.
Ted Kennedy: The Art of the Deal
His reputation was as the fiercest of partisans, but his Senate colleagues, Democrats and Republicans alike, knew a very different Ted Kennedy. Here’s my story for TIME.com on what made him such a successful legislator.
Joe Biden Offers A Personal Tribute
Vice President Joe Biden was scheduled to make a stimulus grant award announcement Wednesday morning. Instead, he gave an extended remembrance of Ted Kennedy, speaking without notes, pausing to contain his emotion, and repeatedly wiping his eyes. Said Biden:
And, you know, he was never defeatist. He never was petty. Never was petty. He
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Obama Remembers Kennedy
In a statement Wednesday morning on Martha’s Vineyard, President Obama spoke of his friend and supporter Ted Kennedy.
His seriousness of purpose was perpetually matched by humility, warmth and good cheer. He compassion — passionately battled others and do so peerlessly on the Senate floor for the causes that he held dear and yet still
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