Ted Kennedy has often been a punching bag for national Republicans -- a symbol of bloated government and tax-and-spend liberalism -- but there are many, myself included, who revere him as a dedicated public servant and a stalwart defender of progressive values.News coverage of the Massachusetts senator's legacy has been widespread since word of his diagnosis with brain cancer became public. Some of the themes often-repeated are: the huge amount of legislation that Kennedy has his fingerprints on; the reputation among GOP senators that Kennedy has as a deal maker; and the multitude of average citizens who have seen their individual problems solved and their particular causes taken up by Kennedy.
No one is sure right now what the senator's illness means in terms of his getting back to work in Washington, but the outlook for more than the immediate future is not good, and the void that would remain in his absence may be forever unfillable.
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god bless him
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