Ted's dead ...

He got himself elected the year I was born. Too bad he didn't live to see any sort health care reform. Let's hope his grandchildren live long enough to see the seeds of his labor come to fruition.

Update:

The best eulogy on the intarwebs. Our buddy Nucks:

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Either way, we just lost a very influential advocate for us fucking peons, like him or not, the man did great things for us little people and I will be damned if I can come up with a name that comes close to what he did for us, maybe Fiengold can get busy.

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