<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b8b3fa83-a4b7-4de4-b052-89b3f20a75a0/1AD9DFE9-F462-45DC-9CE1-1E6DE1A70CBF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0909/Reid_Teddys_death_going_to_help_us.html" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0909/Reid_Teddys_death_going_to_help_us.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.politico.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0909/Reid_Teddys_death_going_to_help_us.html"><H1 class="section_best_breaking">Reid: Teddy's death "going to help us"</H1> <P class="blogtext"></P><P>The <A href="http://www.rgj.com/article/20090829/NEWS/908300331&OAS_sitepage=news.rgj.com%2Fbreakingnews">Reno Gazette-Journal</A> has a sit-down with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who addresses the Ted Kennedy question in, um, an interesting way.</p> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Q: How will U.S. Sen. (Edward) Kennedy's death affect things?</p> <P>A: <STRONG>I think it's going to help us</STRONG>. He hasn't been around for some time. We're going to have a new chairman of that committee, it'll be, I don't know for sure, but I think Sen. (Chris) Dodd, (D-Conn.). He has a right to take it. Either him or (U.S. Sen. Tom) Harkin, (D-Iowa), whichever one wants it can have it. I think he (Kennedy) will be a help. He's an inspiration for us. That was the issue of his life and he didn't get it done.</p> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Nothing in here is particularly new — Kennedy will help the cause, Dodd gets to carry the banner, Kennedy's work remains undone. But the straight-shooting Reid does have a gift for saying non-controversial things in the most controversial way possible.</p> <P>h/t Isenstadt</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1AD9DFE9-F462-45DC-9CE1-1E6DE1A70CBF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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