We've lost the Senate's 'Lion,' as he was known to many. His signature issue: Healthcare lost one of its major proponents. Sen. Kennedy pleaded with Mass Gov. Patrick to be ready to appoint a replacement, but with Sen. Byrd out sick too, the Dems MUST do Reconciliation NOW to pass healthcare reform with public option as Kennedy would have wanted. The country mourns but must fight as he would want us to. |
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)