February 7, 2007

Ted Kennedy

Ted Kennedy has minced no words about the tragic incompetent farce called the Iraq War. Because the corporate media has written him off as a "Massachusetts liberal," his impassioned denunciations of the Bush-Cheney bumbling hawks get scant coverage.

But a BuzzFlash reader nominated Ted Kennedy for another reason: his no-holds barred defense of the needs of the working people of America.

Philip Beard of Baton Rouge wrote: "I heard excerpts of Ted Kennedy’s speech on the floor last week blistering Republican senators for sinking the passage of a minimum wage bill with billions of dollars worth of attachments and tax breaks. Mr. Kennedy called them out for their greed and contempt for the working poor.

"His honest fury and rage for the behavior exhibited by the callous indifference to the living conditions of Americans who have no voice in the Senate, no power, and living in a reality that resembles that described by Dickens in 18th Century England is a just condemnation of the Republican Party.

"Ted Kennedy has been marginalized and defamed by the immoral right wing airwave hate machine for years. Yet Mr. Kennedy soldiers on in the fight for an idea of what America can be."

Since this nomination was forwarded to BuzzFlash, the minimum wage bill was passed by the Senate, after a compromise was struck with the GOP that grants tax cuts to small businesses. It has to be reconciled with a House version that doesn't include tax breaks.

Whatever the final outcome, Ted Kennedy, the unflagging war horse for economic and social justice, will be there representing the interests of the people, not the government and corporate poobahs.

For that, he more than deserves this week's BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award.

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Nominated by: Phillip Beard of Baton Rouge, La.

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