Posted by
Frederick T. McKaig on Sunday, December 17, 2006 6:05:08 PM
Today Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy made his first appearance on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. The interview wasn't really an interview it was a filibuster. Chris Wallace gives the most fair interviews in the business, he's been criticized by the Democrats for
the sessions not being 'Love-ins". 
Ted Kennedy would not let Chris Wallace get a word in edgewise and as a result Ted Kennedy got in all of his talking points. The filibuster started with Ted Kennedy blowing smoke up the viewers behind. He talked about a bunch of things gone wrong and how he was against the Iraq War from the beginning. Of course the phrase "redeploy troops" was used, instead of the old fashioned dictionary term "retreat".
The next items were big government and the 1995 welfare reform bill Ted Kennedy voted against. Welfare reform was one of the things the Republican Congress brought and it has been successful. Ted Kennedy mad a rebuttal that more Americans were in poverty and children were going hungry. I don't know where he got the "hungry children" data from, but I am certain poverty condition have improved. Poverty today is what middle class was during the 1960s.
"The living reason for term-limits" went on to complain about the growth of the Sallie Mae company, exactly how is that the Republicans fault. I thought us Republicans wanted to end student loans and screw teenagers out of their right to go to school for half of a decade on the tax payer dime. Sallie Mae is a loan company that is a strange private-public funded company. I would know more about the student loan programs, but I got my money for college AFTER 6 years of Naval Service (climbing in and out of boilers).
Senator Ted Kennedy did not tell the viewers that Democratic Congressman Harold Ford Jr.'s father is a big lobbyist for the loan company, and Ford Jr.'s family is full of corruption problems.
"The living reason for term-limits" should go on the O'Reilly Factor.