In a Dramatic and Emotional Moment, Ted Kennedy returns to Senate to break Republican Medicare filibuster

I applaud Senator Kennedy's return to the floor to break the medicare filibuster, but he will have to go a long way to make up for the horrific bill he introduced that will result in the shutting down of compounding pharmacies or the ban on physician prescribed estriol, a natural component of estrogen. This denying women and their physicians the right to choose inexpensive, effective and contrary to FDA misinformation, harmless bio-identical hormone replacement therapy over Wyeth's horse urine preparation, Premarin and its patentable tweaked progesterone preparation, progestin, known to be a potentially dangerous substance.

I recall the criticism of Kerry, on the campaign trail in 2004, missing votes too. He flew back for a vote that the Republican leadership then delayed so he couldn't vote. It's nasty for everybody. The additional campaign expenses and the jet lag must be awful. This is an equal opportunity problem for the two candidates who will both miss some votes. Pat Williams

Last week McCain, the Commander of Late Company F, failed to show for vote the Medicare bill and today he failed to vote on the FISA bill or the re-vote on the Medicare bill. Not only is McCain an abject failure when it come to leadership, he is a failure at “followship”. McCain has the ignoble distinction of establishing one of the worst Senate absenteeism records in senate history. He exhibits the stereotypical behavior of the spoiled, pampered brat ,rich kid who wants, gets, and thinks he deserves, everything on a silver platter. In their wildest of grotesque nightmares, I do not think than anyone with an I.Q. above that of a dull normal would have believed that the Republicans could have possibly dug up a presidential candidate that could be worse than the current peggiore di tutto peggiore rooting around in the White House. When the progressives said it couldn’t be done, these folks said, “Just watch us” They came up with not with a list of candidates, but a cast of characters. Perhaps a cast of caricatures would be more a apt label. If this bunch had been a litter of puppies, they would have been euthanized. It is difficult to fathom whether the Republicans were trying to pick the worst just to show us they could do it. Or, did they pick McCain because he would maintain his record of no shows in the Senate. At least by not showing up , he couldn’t embarrass the Senate Republicans such Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, he of the tarnished brass foot-in-his-mouth, does so frequently That man must have got into a bad batch of blubber as a child. No person could have naturally developed such a serious case of chronic dumbass, He must have been brain poisoned. Either that or he was born stupid and continued to lose ground over the course of his life. It is now becoming obvious why Bush is so supportive of McCain. If McCain were to win, Bush could leave office in January with the full knowledge he will have escaped being the worst president of the United States of America. The Skeptical Cynic hath spake! Santa knows when you are sleeping, He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good. Unfortunately, so does Bush, Cheney, Rice, Mukasey, and... the FBI, ONI, CIA, MCIA, NSA, DIA,MI6, MOSSAD, AIPAC,

So McSame was absent again huh? Just like on the veteran's benefit deal. What a brave little boy he isn't. Piece of shit.

There is now a veto-proof majority, on this legislation, in both houses of Congress. Maybe doctors in this country will continue to see Medicare patients. This is but a band-aid on the crisis in health care, but for now --- it will have to do. It stops the bleeding for a short time, anyway.