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> "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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> > > > snpd
> >
> > 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.
>

Or just resign and let a sober person have the job.