Even Ted Kenndy would not support Liarwatha's past..................

Ted Kennedy slammed steel company Liz Warren represented

By Hillary Chabot and Joe Battenfeld
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - Updated 2 days ago

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The late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, whom Democrat Elizabeth Warren is repeatedly evoking on the campaign trail, railed against the steel conglomerate the Harvard Law professor represented in its bid to avoid paying benefits to retired coal miners.

Kennedy filed bills to require bankrupt companies to honor their pension agreements to retirees and specifically cited the company Warren worked for, LTV Steel, for using bankruptcy to shirk payments to retired workers.

“Many companies are using bankruptcy courts to abandon their pension plans,” Kennedy said during a speech on the Senate floor in Nov. 2005. “Hundreds of thousands of workers and retirees at companies such as United Airlines, US Airways, Bethlehem Steel and LTV Steel are now without the pensions they worked so hard to earn.”

Kennedy also in 2005 sponsored the Stop Terminating Our Pensions Act, which would have imposed a six-month moratorium on terminating pension plans resulting from bankruptcy proceedings.

Warren recently has been quoting Kennedy in her campaign to defeat Republican Scott Brown, who took the iconic liberal’s place in the U.S. Senate in 2010.

But Warren’s legal work sometimes clashed with Kennedy’s agenda. In 1995, Warren got paid $10,000 by LTV Steel to skirt the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act, which required companies that shut down coal mines to keep providing health benefits for their former employees, many of whom suffered mining-related ailments. Kennedy voted for the Coal Act in 1992.

Warren also got paid more than $200,000 in 2008 to represent Travelers Insurance in its legal bid to duck paying settlements to future asbestos victims.

While Warren argued passionately that the asbestos case regarding Travelers was due to an “asbestos litigation crisis,” Kennedy contradicted that position on the Senate floor, saying, “the real crisis which confronts us is not an asbestos litigation crisis, it is an asbestos-induced disease crisis.”

Warren’s outside legal work has become a major issue in the Senate campaign, and her apparent conflicts with the legendary Senator could pose new problems for her attempts to keep Democratic voters from defecting to Brown. Warren campaign officials said yesterday she supports the bills Kennedy sponsored and believes Congress should do more to protect retirees’ benefits.

Warren yesterday defended her work for Travelers and LTV Steel, saying it doesn’t conflict with her pledge to fight for the “hammered” middle class.

“My goal was to come in as a bankruptcy expert and to make sure that there was the maximum protection for those who were injured by corporations, and that was true for the present day and also true on into the future,” Warren said. “That’s where I have stood. It’s where I do stand. It’s where I will stand in the future. I will be there to protect workers, that’s what I think is right.”

-— hillary.chabot@bostonherald.com

But Frauds and phoney's find a "home" at TRMS. Liars and Frauds beget, FRAUDS & lies. The political hack Blog Author exposed yet again.

GO SCOTT BROWN!

Tunes: You owe me another set of ear drums.

I think the Scott Brown AD is beyond racism. He is nuancin AFFIRMATIVE ACTION and implying that EW got special treatment in education and hiring because she was part INDIAN. It is not that he cannot see Indian in her. It is that she must by lying and still got special treatment.

Listening to Leslie Reagan I am also remembering sending women to Mexico from Los Angeles in the early 70s. Yes, the clinics were excellent but it was a long trip to a foreign country. And it was dangerous politically and the women had to be secretive. And yes, only certain people could afford that. I now work in Sierra Leone, West Africa on women's reproductive issues. This August I told some of the women with whom we work about the political climate here in the US regarding contraception. They just became utterly silent and dejected. To think that contraception was endangered even in America sent them into a place of despair that is hard for us to imagine.

Can't wait for Chris Hayes. he's terrific! On voter id laws, there is a built in anti woman bias due to women giving up their names when they marry and/or divorce. Might that be grounds to legally challenge the law? ALWAYS love your show, Rachel.

I also cringe at the idea of the future owner of the Patriots hosting a $75,000 a plate fundraiser for Mitt. I can only imagine a repeat of that 47% tape, expect that was a $50,000 a plate dinner so this crowd is even more plutocratic.

At least Robert Kraft still owns the team. He has mostly donated to Democrats over the years and in 2004 and 2008 he gave money to both sides of the aisle. Also, Bloomberg wrote back in May that he was an Obama supporter. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-02/romney-draws-sports-team-owners-as-players-pick-obama

Hopefully Jonathan Kraft isn't a nut job. His Mitt connection goes all the way back to his first job out of college, working at Bain & Co. Yes, that one :(

You have got to see this video Rachel. Very little has really moved me in this entire election process this time around. I can't believe the Democrats have been so spineless and that the Republicans have been able to get away with the degrading and disgusting actions. Anyway, this video brought some fresh air back into the campaign and has got me excited about making sure President Obama gets one term more so he can complete the work that needs to be done. Hope you enjoy this as much as I did and can somehow pass it along. Keep rocking the boat girl!!! Here is the link to the video...http://vimeo.com/48155075

Can we get a report on what the Democrats in the Senate will do if they retain control of the Senate? Will they finally kill the filibutster?

Leadership,
leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus on what you did.
Excuse
Excuses change nothing, We of course, learn from yesterday. So, you’d better to correct yourselves, not staying on your own misleading. I think itls fair to rebuff the failure.
The shifting responsibility to someone else usually causes anger and counter-attack from the targeted.
Responsibility
No matter how reasonable it may sound, it can not wipe out your responsibility and it can not solve the problem.
Obama has insisted to take the same scapegoat, Bush. And now Biden showed the uniformity of rebuking of the former President.
Whenever troubles and uncertainties rise anywhere, the loser or cornered looks for scapegoats to blame.
Then, can you expect, the public think Obama is a very capable leader good enough to achieve economic revival? No!
Clearly, you are proving that you are cornered.
The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of such a hiperlinking negative excuse.
We’d like to learn from yesterday whatever it was, live for happy today, and hope for bright tomorrow.
We are really hungered for a new and capable leader and his splendid team.

NO PLAN...NO CLUE...NOBAMA 2012!

What has Fearless Leader done for the United States of America ?

Enlarged the National Debt to $ 16 Trillion and climbing ?

Created a Healthcare Program that will benefit only the Bureaucrats that run it ?

Advocates Free Birth Control and Abortions for everyone ?

Made the Sodomites feel good about themselves ?
And now they will want Free Birth Control and Abortions too ???

Executed Osama ben Ladden and also Anwar al-Awlaki, a 40-year-old, New Mexico-born Muslim cleric overseas ?

Advocates shipping automatic weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels ?

Advocates a No Borders Policy ?

Gave control of the US Space Program over to the Russians and People's Republic of China ?

Stopped construction of Oil Fields and Oil Pipelines ?

Gave the Auto Industry a Bailout ?

Gave the Wall Street Banks a Bailout ?

Advocates a Marxist Social Totalitarian government over a Constitutional Republic ?

Spent most of his time in office . . . relentless campaigning to be re-elected ?

Yes . . . Fearless Leader has been Busy .

NO PLAN...NO CLUE...NOBAMA 2012!

Can we get number estimates on the early voters?

Why haven't you supplied the video of the Leslie Reagan interview? I watched the interview, but I must rely on my memory of what she said. I apologize if my recollection is incorrect.

At one point in the interview, "Medical Ethics" professor Reagan said women "needing" an abortion were unable to get one in some US states because of state legal restrictions. I believe the word she should have used was "wanting." In my view, a woman "needs" abortion only if the physical risk of the abortion to the woman is less than the physical risk to the woman if the pregnancy continues to the birth of the child. In ALL other cases, the abortion is just something the woman "wants." (And a medical procedure pro-life people don't want to subsidize.)

It's interesting how American views on abortion have changed since the Roe v Wade decision. Before that decision, abortion for ANY reason was illegal in almost every state, and there wasn't great demand for changing those laws. I can think of two 1950s movies in which abortion laws were discussed, 1951's "Detective Story" and 1957's "Peyton Place." The abortion in "Detective Story" was a "want" abortion. The abortion in "Peyton Place" might qualify as a "need" abortion as the terminated pregnancy resulted from a rape by a stepfather.