"Carter still blames Kennedy for blocking bill
WASHINGTON – Edward M. Kennedy may have died of brain cancer last year, but that has not softened Jimmy Carter’s assessment of his rival for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
In a “60 Minutes’’ interview to be aired Sunday, Carter blames Kennedy for delaying comprehensive health care coverage for Americans by not joining forces with him on a bill during his presidency.
I missed it.
If Kennedy had dropped his insistence on full national health insurance and endorsed Carter’s compromise plan, the former president says, repeating views he and aides have held for decades, Americans could have had universal coverage long ago.
That was the Ted we needed to get single-payer; however, he was already worn out by then.
“The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed,’’ Carter tells Lesley Stahl, according to a “60 Minutes’’ press release.
“It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill.’’
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In later decades, Kennedy dropped his single-minded insistence on national health insurance and pursued a variety of incremental coverage expansions....
Proving no politician ever acts on principal.
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And how little things have changed since:
"Jimmy Carter’s dream" by Beth Daley, Globe Staff | September 13, 2010
It’s been almost a generation since the solar panels Jimmy Carter installed on the White House roof were removed.
By who?
And they won’t be up again anytime soon — even after one of the original panels was driven to the White House last week....
The panels, used to heat water for the staff eating area, symbolized a solar strategy that Carter said was going to “move our nation toward true energy security and abundant, readily available energy supplies.’’
Back then the government scientists were screaming about a new ice age.
You know, the same ones now misting away about global warming.
But in 1986, President Reagan took the panels down when the roof was being repaired....
And they never went back up.
Related: A project for Bush: Clean energy
Who knew?
Looking back now Carter was probably one of the better presidents we have had in the last 50 years. Must be why his time in office was so short.
Update: Carter wrongly faults Kennedy
Globe just defending their boy.
