"Watson A. Nayme" <silverdahlar@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>  Get_bush_INSTEAD@hotmail.com (Get bush INSTEAD) wrote in message
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> Teddy has pickled his brain.
>
> Sunday Oct. 26, 2003; 12:01 p.m. EST
> Kennedy Vote Stumble Leaves Senators Gasping
>
> Hard-drinking Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy appeared to be so confused on
> the Senate floor last week that he prompted "audible gasps" from his
> colleagues by mistakenly voting for two pieces of legislation he was known
> to oppose - only to have his votes corrected later.
>
> "The Senate chamber was filled with audible gasps last Tuesday when Sen.
> Edward M. Kennedy, the pro-choice champion, clearly voted 'yes' on final
> passage of the bill to ban partial-birth abortion," columnist Robert Novak
> reported Sunday.
>
> Kennedy also botched his vote on Democratic-backed amendment to require
> partial Iraqi repayment of U.S. reconstruction aid by inadvertently siding
> with the White House.
>
> The fumble required the intervention of Senate Minority Leader Tom
Daschle,
> who had to explain what happened to Kennedy and get him to change his
vote.
>
> Asked if the top Massachusetts liberal was "slipping a little bit," Sen.
Jon
> Corzine blamed Kennedy's stumbling on the sometimes confusing language
used
> in the legislative process.
>
> "I suspect that he just walked onto the floor and thought that he was
voting
> on the final question as opposed to whether [the bill] was going to be
> tabled or not," Sen. Corzine told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg.
>
> Corzine's explanation notwithstanding, no other Senator seems to have had
a
> problem figuring out how to vote.

Perhaps instead of just walking onto the floor and voting, he should read
the bills and study the issues.