Sen. Edward Kennedy’s brain cancer is in remission and he is expected back in the Senate after the Memorial Day recess to spearhead healthcare reform, according to Democratic colleagues.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that he spoke with Kennedy’s wife, Vicki, in the past few days and was told the 77-year-old lawmaker is “doing fine.”
Reid said Kennedy’s cancer is in remission and added that while the lawmaker is going through another regiment of treatment, the procedure “is not unusual.”
“This is something we expected,” he said.
Kennedy, the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, has been mostly absent from the chamber for the past year, recovering in Florida and Massachusetts.
He is expected to lead a markup of highly anticipated health reform legislation in his first month back - one of the biggest bills of the year and a signature domestic initiative for President Obama.
Brain cancer? In REMISSION? This just never, ever happens. But with Ted Kennedy it has.
Note to all the Christofascist zombies in the Republican Party who think that health care for everyone is somehow anti-Christian: If God didn't want universal health care, he wouldn't have put Ted Kennedy's brain cancer into remission. Of course remission isn't cure, but we rarely hear remission used in the context of brain cancers.
So there.
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