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Guests: Eugene Robinson, Howard Fineman, Julia Boorstin, Pat Buchanan, Ron Brownstein, Roger Simon, Edward Markey
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Teddy.
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Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in New York. Ted Kennedy was the last hurrah, the big baritone out there demanding justice for the left-out people—the African-Americans, native Americans, the old person, the immigrant family that wanted to be American, the sick, scared person waiting in the ER for hours with something really wrong.
Why would a big, good-looking guy like him, a rich guy, spend his life worrying about the people left out? Was it tribal memory of his own people left out, sent away, told to go back where they came from? Was it those old Boston signs that said "Irish need not apply"?
What was it that made health care such a crusade for this guy? Who do you know who has a broken back who spends his life and time thinking about other people's troubles? Was it because his older brother was secretly sick most of his life? Bobby liked to say that if a mosquito ever bit Jack, it was the mosquito that would die. Was it his sister, Rosemary, who never got the right care?
This much we know for sure. He had two brothers shot and thought gun control made a certain sense. He saw violence in Northern Ireland and wanted peace for the people where his family came from. He saw a war coming in Iraq and voted against it and said it was the best vote of his life. And yes, he was human, so human, in the poet's words, he was "the emperor of ice cream," the man filled with life when everyone else was grieving and lost—"Call the roller of big cigars, the muscular one." At too many funerals, too many brothers lost, he was the man filled with life, sometimes too much of it, the one we crowded to, leaned against, needed, Edward M. Kennedy, Ted, Teddy.
His people fought the nickname. They said, Call him Edward, they protested. But those who cared for him, the tens of millions, they loved what his nieces and nephews called him, Teddy, the emperor of ice cream, the big guy filled with life at all those too many funerals. And now there is his.
Let's bring in a pair of MSNBC political analysts, "Newsweek's" Howard Fineman and "The Washington Post's" Eugene Robinson. Howard, you and my friend Eugene, both my friends, it's a night to think, to be a little Irish, I suppose. Howard, you qualify. Eugene, you qualify.
Let's talk about this guy, and let's start with the partisan stuff. This is the place for politics, and let's talk about Mr. Democrat, Ted Kennedy. We'll talk with his friends, you two guys. I think I can call you his friend, Howard, even though you're an objective reporter. I know Eugene's his friend. And then we'll bring in Pat Buchanan, a rival, in the next segment to talk about what he was like as a rival. Let's get it all together tonight here in the place for politics. Howard—leader of the Democratic Party, Ted Kennedy.
HOWARD FINEMAN, "NEWSWEEK," MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, Chris, Ted was Ted—and I just reflexively called him that—was both the last of the great Franklin Delano Roosevelt liberals in the Democratic Party, and that's what his 1980 campaign was about against Jimmy Carter, and he was the last of the great bipartisan Irish-American dealmakers.
I just got done writing a piece for MSNBC.com which I always wanted to write about the Irish in American politics. And I can talk about this maybe more than you can. For 150 years, the Irish were the essential—the lubricant in the gears of American public life. They made the thing go. They made it happen. And I think Ted Kennedy was the embodiment of that.
Whatever gift the Irish had for politics, for public life, for both idealism and deal making, Ted Kennedy had and he had almost more and more convincingly than his brothers. And it turns out that he was the one who did the hard work, the consistent work, and the work that won him the hearts of so many people in the Senate on both sides of the aisle, that bipartisan spirit and desire to make the deal and the joy in making the deal that met his ideals and advanced the causes he cared about. It's something that everybody in public life, whether an elected person or somebody like Gene and I who cover politics, can be inspired by.
MATTHEWS: Well, for 41 years, he beat the gunman. He avoided getting killed like his brothers by people carrying guns. Eugene, for most Americans living today, he was the Kennedy. They don't remember Joe. Joe died in World War II fighting the Nazis, and Jack was killed in a cold war situation by a real communist lover, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Bobby was killed supporting Israel, basically, in the Middle East. These were politically motivated killings. The youngest brother survived. For most people, he was "the Kennedy." Your thoughts about the Democratic leader, Ted Kennedy.
EUGENE ROBINSON, "WASHINGTON POST," MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, the first thing that popped into my mind this morning when I heard had he died, Chris, was, perhaps inconveniently, a line written by an Englishman. I thought of the at the end of "Hamlet," when Hamlet dies, and "flights of angels sing thee to thy rest," not just because it's perhaps the most beautiful eulogy ever written, but also because Hamlet was a prince and Teddy was a prince in a family of kings and queens.
His father was a king. His brother Jack was a king. His brothers Joe and Bobby were supposed to be king, but they died young. He was fated to be a prince, and that's a much more difficult role to play. And he—it took him a while to grow into it, to learn how to play that role. But he came to play it not just with tremendous grace as a leader—as the leader of the Democratic Party, as the soul of the Democratic Party, but also to tremendous effect. His stamp is on so much of the landmark legislation of that that's been passed in the last 40 years. It's a very sad day and a very historic day.
MATTHEWS: Well, you quoted the greatest—well, the greatest writer of poetry in British English history. Now let's go to the greatest writer of prose, Machiavelli, many believe the greatest writer of prose in the language. Howard, you're laughing, but "The Prince," the very words used here, bring to mind the job description of a U.S. senator, to be a prince, not a king, to deal with others of equal power and to get those men and women of equal power to do your bidding.
FINEMAN: Well, Chris, the thing I remember most about Ted Kennedy is his laugh, that big, bursting, joyous laugh of his. He never wrote anybody off. He never wrote anybody out of his story. In that sense, he was a generous spirit. And I think that the tragedies that he suffered and the mistakes that he made, made him a less judgmental person.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: And while he kept his ideals, he was always willing to go back to people, not write them off. And in the United States Senate, where he served for all those many decades, nobody was ever written out of his universe because—and that's the way the Senate should operate. And when he laughed, it was a laughter that embraced the whole chamber and took joy in the process of legislating.
Now, we make fun of it, we are cynical about it, but the floor of the Senate is one of the places where the will of the American people is expressed. And Ted Kennedy never forgot the solemnity of the responsibility that he had, but the joy that he had in trying to do the people's work. And he conveyed that to everybody on both sides of the aisle or none. Anybody who was around him felt his sense of joy as the process of being a public person in a democratic country. That was the key to it, and that's really what made him so successful, I think.
MATTHEWS: You know, there's a great story, Gene and Howard, of David
Nyhan, the great "Boston Globe" reporter, who was going—he was working -
he had a deal—he was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy school, and Teddy was kidding him and saying, You finally got into Harvard, David. And he said, yes, I'm having trouble with my Spanish exam.
MATTHEWS: And Teddy said, I've got somebody who can help you!
MATTHEWS: I mean, and here he is laughing, Gene, about the fact that he got in trouble for cheating on a Spanish exam 50-some years ago. And because he did, he got kicked out of the school for a period of time, went into the military, and probably became a better man for having served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army, working his way back to Harvard.
ROBINSON: He probably did become a better man, and he certainly retained throughout his life the ability to laugh at himself. There was a fundamental generosity about Ted Kennedy that extended to his relations with fellow senators and others, as well. I was at that 1980 convention when he gave that incredible line, "The work goes on, the cause endures and the dream shall never die."
MATTHEWS: Yes.
ROBINSON: And right after the convention, I was assigned to do my first big political story for "The Washington Post," and it was about Ted Kennedy and what was he doing to help the Carter ticket.
MATTHEWS: Well, that wasn't much!
ROBINSON: Well—well...
MATTHEWS: There's a short column!
ROBINSON: It was a short story...
FINEMAN: But a well written one. But a well written one.
ROBINSON: But he made it more than it otherwise could have been by being extraordinarily generous with his time and access and candor to a 26-year-old political reporter from "The Post" who didn't know which way the Capitol was and which way the White House was, and didn't know nothing. And he gave me the same sort of consideration he would have given to David Broder, had he been doing the story.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
ROBINSON: He was just a generous guy.
MATTHEWS: You know, Howard and Eugene, we grew up with leaders in both parties who were sort of central to the party. They weren't presidents necessarily, but they were the heart of the parties. It's hard to imagine the Democratic Party in the '50s without Hubert Humphrey, for example, the great leader of Civil Rights who really fought that fight from '48 on. It's hard to imagine a Republican Party without Everett Dirksen or with Barry Goldwater, people that weren't—or even the Republican Party without Nelson Rockefeller, believe it or not.
Without a leader like Teddy, where is the Democratic Party right now, Howard?
FINEMAN: That's a really good question, Chris, and I'm not sure because you don't have those—those independent leaders of stature in the Congress that you used to have. They're just not there. The Senate in recent years has become much more like the House. They're raising money all the time. They're sticking with their ideological brethren all the time. They're preaching to their respective choirs all the time. They're not independent persons. They're not independent personages, if you will.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: They're not independent moral forces. And whether it was Barry Goldwater, as you said, or Gene McCarthy that—somebody else you might mention, or Hubert Humphrey or Ev Dirksen on the Republican side, those kinds of figures who provide ballast and identify for the party are gone. Right now, all the identity of the Democratic Party is concentrated in Barack Obama.
MATTHEWS: That's a lot of weight...
FINEMAN: That's a lot of weight.
MATTHEWS: That's a lot of weight on one guy's shoulders.
FINEMAN: It's too much weight. It's too much weight to carry, and I think he's finding that that makes his efforts in health care and other reforms more difficult because he doesn't have other people holding onto the oars to row along with him.
MATTHEWS: In the term of—in "Ghostbusters" language, who you going to call, Eugene, if you're Barack Obama? Who you going to call?
ROBINSON: Well, that's a good question, and...
MATTHEWS: Without Ted there.
ROBINSON: ... and the answer is, under other, happier circumstances, to get health care done, he would have called on Ted Kennedy, you know, and who would be—who would be leading the fight, leading the negotiations, leading the process in a way that, frankly, no one in the Senate is able to do for him right now.
FINEMAN: And I'm sure Gene and I can tell you exactly how it would have gone down, Chris. Ted Kennedy would have been at his desk in the back there in the Senate, pounding on the podium for the full public option as part of the deal. And then at the very last minute, to get the best deal he possibly could, he would have brokered the compromise with Republicans to get the kind of all-encompassing deal done that he'd want and that the president would want because I think the president's instincts are like Teddy's, in the sense that he knows that for a big piece of legislation like health care reform, you need the broadest possible consent.
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: But it's become so difficult in this country and in the Congress and in our political system, the way it's set up...
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: ... to get broad consent for anything. And that what dies with Ted Kennedy here, I fear. I hope that's not the case.
MATTHEWS: Well, maybe someone will come in...
FINEMAN: Let's hope not.
MATTHEWS: ... from right field, like Mike Enzi of Wyoming. You just never know.
FINEMAN: You never know.
MATTHEWS: Somebody's going to come in and win this game for both sides, perhaps, for the country.
Howard Fineman, Eugene Robins, we'll be talking to you later tonight. Stay with us. And when we return—in fact, we'll be talking to you in a minute when we bring in Pat Buchanan to sot of mix it up here. Maybe it's been one-sided in terms of focusing on the Democratic Party. I want to talk about with Pat Buchanan's what Ted Kennedy's importance was as an opponent, as a lightning rod, if you will. We'll be right back to talk to Pat Buchanan about what it was like to go after Ted Kennedy. I mean, they had a few—well, they had a few people up there checking up on him over the years. I think Pat knows about that. We'll be right back.
SEN. TED KENNEDY (D), MASSACHUSETTS: The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: His extraordinary life on this earth has come to an end, and the extraordinary good that he did lives on. For his family, he was a guardian. For America, he was a defender of a dream.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL and our coverage of the death of Senator Edward Kennedy. "Newsweek's" Howard Fineman is with us, as well as "The Washington Post's" Eugene Robinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for "The Washington Post." And joining us right now is MSNBC's political analyst Pat Buchanan.
I remember the old joke, when it wasn't so much a joke after the Nixon White House in the '70s, when they named Archibald Cox a special prosecutor basically because Ted Kennedy demanded that he be named special prosecutor, and the joke in the White House was Nixon said, I thought it was Eddie Cox they named, his son-in-law.
MATTHEWS: He pulled one over on you.
PAT BUCHANAN, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: We knew it wasn't Eddie!
MATTHEWS: Archibald Cox ran the Kennedy speech-writing operation in the 1960 campaign against you guys, Pat, and he ends up as special prosecutor against Dick Nixon and brings him down. I would say that's partisan politics by Ted Kennedy. I guess you think so.
BUCHANAN: Well, I think, look, the Kennedys were—I mean, let's—let's get it out front—were savage partisans. Nixon felt they had stolen Illinois and Texas, with some justification. He had been himself audited by the IRS. He had Larry O'Brien was deep into the Hughes stuff. All of those things—Archibald Cox was a Kennedyite and Kennedy's right there when he's sworn in. And Nixon thought that they were trying to take him down, and he was exactly right. They played hardball. And Nixon played hardball himself, Chris. I recall Nixon wanted me and others to find out exactly what happened in those cables going to and from Saigon...
MATTHEWS: Sure.
BUCHANAN: ... before the assassination of Diem. That's the way the game was played.
MATTHEWS: Well, do you think Nixon was smart to try to find out what Larry O'Brien's deal was with Howard Hughes?
BUCHANAN: I think he would probably...
BUCHANAN: ... have not gone about it the way did he, I would say. I think—as we said at the time, Chris, when we sent in those Cubans, like Kennedy, we forgot to send in air cover.
MATTHEWS: We're talking about the Watergate break-in as a bit of a political hardball that got, I'd say, out of hand, Pat.
BUCHANAN: They would send in Cubans without air cover!
MATTHEWS: Well, let's step back from the brink of the criminality here for a second to the question of political hardball. What was it—what was the importance of Ted Kennedy as an opposite number for you guys on the right?
BUCHANAN: Well, I felt that—I think first, Jack Kennedy was a conservative, in my judgment.
MATTHEWS: I agree with you on that, a gut conservative.
BUCHANAN: And I think Bobby Kennedy moved very sharply to the left to run against LBJ. Teddy Kennedy—the original Teddy Kennedy I think would have within a formidable candidate, but he evolved into the kind of liberal, quite frankly, on issues like abortion and gay rights and out front on spending and social and economic policy, all these things that his own brother, Jack Kennedy, would have mocked when Adlai Stevenson was for him. So Kennedy evolved.
But there's no question before Chappaquiddick, Kennedy looked like the odds-on favorite. He would be forced to run against us in 1972, no doubt about it.
MATTHEWS: Pat, was that McNelly's (ph) cartoon that had Teddy waiting outside with his bags, reading to go into the White House right after you guys were inaugurated?
BUCHANAN: Well, no, I think McNelly came a little later, Chris, I think than that. McNelly died young. But his cartoons were phenomenal, I agree, but—got about three Pulitzers. But no, I think—but I would have felt Teddy would have been the nominee. But I always felt, for example, Chris, in '68, that Humphrey was the strongest candidate. He's the only one who could bring the LBJ-John Connally wing and the liberal wing together because of his human rights—I mean, his civil rights record...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BUCHANAN: ... his former liberalism.
Bobby, I think—I think—and others don't—I think we would have beaten Bobby very handily.
MATTHEWS: But you beat Humphrey.
BUCHANAN: We did beat Humphrey, but it was very close.
MATTHEWS: Well, why are you saying he was the best candidate?
BUCHANAN: Because, when the Democratic Party came together, it was almost twice as large as our party.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BUCHANAN: And he gained 13 points in October alone. I mean, I had—
I was out in—breaking out and everything else. And I—and we heard we were down 43-40 in the Harris poll.
MATTHEWS: Yes. Yes.
BUCHANAN: It's—at the end, we thought we were going to lose.
MATTHEWS: I think Bobby would have spooked Nixon.
BUCHANAN: Some of us.
MATTHEWS: Nixon would have started sweating. He would have had a flop sweat. He wouldn't have known what to do with Bobby. That's my thought.
HOWARD FINEMAN, NBC CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: What's the question?
MATTHEWS: Your witness.
MATTHEWS: No, we want to move around here.
Howard, your sense, as a reporter, of how important Teddy was as a punching bag for the Republicans all those years.
FINEMAN: Oh, I think he was very important.
And—and the—the amazing thing and the important thing is that he didn't mind being the punching bag. As—as—as Pat said, you know, the Kennedys played the hardest of hardball. The stuff going on in the Senate for the most part was—was patty-cake by comparison to some of the stuff on the presidential level.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: And I think Teddy understood that it was OK to be a lightning rod. It was OK even in some cases to be a caricature, because that would draw attention to him. That would allow him to make his case.
And, more important, that would allow him to do the deals that he did. Yes, he was a—as I said, he was the last of the FDR liberals. He became that in Pat's recounting of the story. But he also knew precisely when—and developed that sense over the decades—of when to cut the deal, of when to get the half-a-loaf, of when to do incrementally what couldn't be done all in one piece.
And then he would come back a few years later and get another amendment to push—push the thing farther along.
BUCHANAN: You know...
FINEMAN: He did that repeatedly, with Republican support.
MATTHEWS: Let's Gene in here.
Gene, your sense of this fight, where Teddy became the lightning rod.
EUGENE ROBINSON, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: I—I agree with Howard that it was in fact very useful for him to be the lightning rod, because it provided cover, not only for the deal that he would eventually make, but for other Democrats as well, who could come—who could in to the right of Ted Kennedy. That—that wasn't very far to the right at all because he was—he was staking, you know, the purest position.
And, as long as people—you know, people were shooting at him, figuratively, he could take it. He was safe in—in his seat. Nobody was going to beat him in Massachusetts, whereas other Democrats had—had—had opponents and—and problems. And he could provide cover for them.
BUCHANAN: Chris...
MATTHEWS: Pat, why do you think he went left?
BUCHANAN: I—I think probably he was not—he was formed in his convictions, the way Jack Kennedy was.
I look at Jack Kennedy as—as Howard, I think, did it very well on Teddy. Teddy's a big Irish guy. You can see him as a bartender in college singing Danny boy and all the rest of it.
BUCHANAN: Jack Kennedy was a cool customer. He was an Irish WASP.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BUCHANAN: I mean, he was somebody who was a aristocratic, and he his got hand in his pocket and he's perfect all the time.
BUCHANAN: Kennedy is this big gregarious—hey—even with me, "Hey, Pat how are you doing?"
MATTHEWS: But why did he go left?
BUCHANAN: Why did he go left?
I think he moved with the—I don't think he had firm, deep convictions.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BUCHANAN: I think he moved with the '60s, right on along with that whole generation. And frankly, he was staying out in front of it the whole time. I mean, I can't see Jack Kennedy or even Bobby taking some of the positions, say, on right to life and things like that that Teddy eventually did.
MATTHEWS: Well, one theory I had, Gene, is that...
MATTHEWS: ... his brothers moved on civil rights pretty strongly.
ROBINSON: Mm-hmm.
MATTHEWS: And Jack was there by—well, by coincidence, in a way, and he became a...
ROBINSON: All right.
MATTHEWS: ... a forceful spokesman because of history.
Bobby became passionate. And I think Teddy followed it one further step toward a real committed liberal on civil rights.
ROBINSON: Yes, I think he—I think that's absolutely right. That's
that's the way it happened.
But, you know, the whole family, I would argue, might have evolved with the country. So, it's very difficult to say what Jack Kennedy would have been like in 1968 and—or what Bobby Kennedy would have been like in 1972.
BUCHANAN: Yes.
ROBINSON: And it's—it's—you know, the country was moving so—so rapidly and changing so rapidly, it's difficult to be able to parse that...
FINEMAN: Well, the other—Chris—Chris, the other—the other thing that happened was, when—when Jimmy Carter became president, I think Ted Kennedy saw the legacy of the Democratic Party...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: ... as he read it, going back to Roosevelt under assault...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: ... because Jimmy Carter, as you know, was a different kind of Democrat. And I think Teddy moved...
MATTHEWS: He was Grover Cleveland.
FINEMAN: Yes. And Teddy moved even more to the left...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: ... to challenge—to challenge..
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: ... Jimmy Carter and preserve the legacy of the old Democratic Party.
MATTHEWS: Gentlemen, all three of you, as they say in Massachusetts, you're the smart ones. Thanks very much to have—be on the show.
MATTHEWS: You are the smart guys. And I mean it.
Thank you, Howard Fineman, Eugene Robinson...
BUCHANAN: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: ... and Pat Buchanan.
Much more on the life and death of Senator Ted Kennedy—it's just happened—and the future of the issue which he fought for, for so many decades, universal health care—when HARDBALL comes back.
SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY (D), MASSACHUSETTS: This November, the torch will be passed again to a new generation of Americans.
So, with Barack Obama and for you and for me, our country will be committed to his cause. The work begins anew. The hope rises again. And the dream lives on.
KENNEDY: And some day, long after this convention, long after the signs come down and the crowds stop cheering, and the bands stop playing, may it be said of our campaign that we kept the faith. May it be said of our party in 1980 that we found our faith again.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. Tonight, at 9:00 p.m. Eastern, it's the premiere of our documentary "The Kennedy Brothers," an unprecedented look at the lives and impact of Ted, John, Robert, and Joseph Kennedy Jr.
Here now is a look at Ted Kennedy's speech at the 1980 Democratic Convention.
MATTHEWS (voice-over): At the convention, Ted gave more of an acceptance speech than what it was supposed to be, an endorsement of Carter.
KENNEDY: For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
ROBERT SHRUM, FORMER ADVISER TO SENATOR TED KENNEDY: They got to see the Ted Kennedy they should have gotten to see earlier in that campaign.
MATTHEWS: By convention's end, with the balloons falling and the Democrats (INAUDIBLE) President Carter, Kennedy speechwriter Bob Shrum quietly counseled Ted to be a good soldier and a team player.
SHRUM: I looked at him and said, "Are you going to raise his hand, aren't you?"
And he said, "Yes."
And he went up. And I went out into the audience. And it never happened.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And some people in the crowd still shouting: "We want Ted. We want Ted."
You know, this is slightly awkward.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And, finally, I guess, at the very end, there was some sort of, you know, brief hand touch. But it was on full view of the nation, this absolute physical contempt for the senator toward the president.
MATTHEWS: "The Kennedy Brothers" premieres tonight at 9:00 Eastern on MSNBC, almost tomorrow night at 7:00 Eastern, right here on the place for politics.
We are going to have much more on the life of Senator Ted Kennedy
Coming up next: one of Ted's closest friends and allies in the U.S. House of Representatives, Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey of Massachusetts. He joins us—when HARDBALL comes back.
KENNEDY: My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, who saw suffering and tried to heal it, who saw war and tried to stop it.
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JOSEPH BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: So many of his foes embrace him, because they know he made them bigger, he made them more graceful by the way in which he conducted himself.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
That was, of course, the vice president paying tribute, very emotionally, to Ted Kennedy, who just died.
Joining me right now is—we couldn't have a better guest on this right now than Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey, a close colleague, so close.
Congressman, thank you for joining us.
And you and I are friends. And I—I am so admiring of and what you have been able to do all these years. And what I don't know and I have never really asked you, and I'm going to ask you right now, what was Ted Kennedy like to work with inside the scrum, more or less, when you really have to get something done?
REP. EDWARD MARKEY (D), MASSACHUSETTS: Well, on the one hand, during the six years that the Republicans controlled the Senate during the Reagan years, during the six years they controlled it during the Bush years, as you know, he was a warrior. He was going to fight to block bad things from happening.
But, on the other hand, if Senator Hatch or Senator Kassebaum or Senator McCain wanted to work with him towards putting together bipartisan packages, he was willing to do so as well. So, it was almost your choice. If you—if you wanted to fight, he enjoyed the fight. If you wanted peace and you wanted to find a way of moving forward together, he was willing to do that as well.
MATTHEWS: What was he like, Congressman, as a spotter, you know, telling you how to work with somebody, when he said, what's that—what's that guy's story, that kind of thing? Hatch, what's his story? Did he ever tell you that stuff, how to work with Hatch and that kind of thing?
MARKEY: He knew everything. It was like he's a human encyclopedia of American politics. There really has never been anyone like him, in terms of his family's history, his personal history.
There was no one he didn't know, no one that he hadn't already had some kind of a relationship with that would give him an insight as to what would motivate that member on a particular issue. If you had one person to call and it was, you know, and you're on the "Millionaire" show, you would call Ted Kennedy on politics, because he would know the answer.
MATTHEWS: Could you ever—I mean, this is such dangerously close to psychobabble, but let's try it. Why did he care so much about health care? Were you ever able to get that from him?
MARKEY: Well, you know, his entire family and its history was touched by his sister Rosemary, by the illnesses and the tragedies that befell his family, almost in a—in a Greek tragedy-like way.
And, so, I think as the years went by, he became more and more empathetic as to how health care issues would affect ordinary families. And because he was the chairman of the committee, it gave him an opportunity to touch the lives of every single American and to give them the access to the health care which he knew his family had been provided.
MATTHEWS: How was he with the casework in Massachusetts? You know, some politicians are big picture. They think it's scut work.
But I have a sense that Ted Kennedy relished the ability to help people with particularly strange little problems they had that he only knew about and he only cared about, in addition to them caring about them.
MARKEY: You could only imagine what the reception was on the other end of the line when someone handed a phone to a bureaucrat, saying, "Senator Ted Kennedy is on the line," in terms of what the likely outcome was for...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MARKEY: ... constituent if there was a problem.
Again, there's really no one else like him. He—he—he was someone who transcended mere mortals in politics.
MATTHEWS: Well, what was it about constituent service? Because a lot of guys—I think of Pat Moynihan of being so big picture—they're almost ethereal.
What brought him down to earth when—when—when a mayor wanted something, for example?
MARKEY: Well, remember his grandfather was the mayor of Boston. So he grew up in that culture with his grandfather, Honey Fitz helping him in his first campaign, being there—I mean for his brother Jack in that first campaign.
So all of this was part of the family history. They understood that the foundation was at the grassroots. It was block to block. It was ward by ward. And each of them had an ability to talk about Chicopee or to talk about Everett.
MATTHEWS: I know about Chicopee.
MARKEY: -- as though they were the ward boss in those communities.
MATTHEWS: I went out with somebody from Chicopee once. Let me ask you—long time ago—let me ask you, Congressman, about Vicki Kennedy. We haven't talked about her tonight. Ted Kennedy's second wife. His first marriage ended badly with Joan. Vicki seems to be someone who really gave him a second effort in life. Not just in politics.
MARKEY: You know, Vicki for the last 17 or 18 years has been inseparable from Ted Kennedy. I cannot think of a single place that I saw Ted Kennedy that I did not see Vicki as well. They became a team, a partnership. And because of that, he became even greater than he had been in the past. And Vicki is as much of this story as is the senator, because they did create that partnership that made it possible for him to become the greatest senator of all time.
MATTHEWS: Congressman, our condolences from MSNBC and everybody here to you, sir. I know how close you were. And to Judge Reggie (ph), and to Dorris Reggie, the parents of Vicki, and Vicki, of course, herself, who has been, from my perspective, an amazing, loving spouse. I think you're right. I think she gave him that booster rocket these last 20 or so years.
MARKEY: Can I say this, Chris?
MATTHEWS: Sure.
MARKEY: If I could just say this. You and I know where we were when Jack Kennedy died. We know where we were when Bobby Kennedy died. That's the power of this family. And I'll never forget the day that Ted Kennedy passed away either, OK? It's been an incredible gift that this family has given to our country, and to me personally, and I think to millions of other people who are out there.
They inspired me to go into government. They changed our country for the better. And there's no way of really measuring how much they had an impact on the families of millions of people all across our country.
MATTHEWS: Yes. Congressman Markey, thank you so much. What a great brother Ted Kennedy was to his brothers.
Up next, much more in the life of Ted Kennedy, the senator from Massachusetts, and his impact on the debate we're having right now. It's very much alive on health care. We'll be right back with HARDBALL after this.
T. KENNEDY: As long as I have a voice in the United States Senate, it's going to be for that Democratic platform plank that provides decent quality of health care, north and south, east and west, for all Americans, as a matter of right and not of privilege.
T. KENNEDY: Join in this historic journey to have the courage to choose change. It's time again for a new generation of leadership. It is time now for Barack Obama.
MATTHEWS: That was the American University speech last year. We're back. Joining us right now is "Politico's" Roger Simon and the Atlantic Media political director Ron Brownstein. It's so great, gentlemen, to have you two on tonight.
I'm not going to lead you much at all. Roger, you first. Stories about Ted Kennedy. You're very good at finding these stories.
ROGER SIMON, "POLITICO": You know, after I heard the news last night, I went down to the basement and looked up my old Ted Kennedy columns. You know, he was always a great interview, but there was always this—I found anyway—this air of sadness over him and the rest of the family.
I found a column I had done in October of 1974. This was a low point for Ted Kennedy. He had just been chased off the stage in Boston by anti-bussing demonstrators, who were shouting impeach Kennedy. This was where he was—a tomato was thrown at him. A woman punched him in the shoulder as he left the stage. He had decided not to run in 1976 for president, even though he thought the Democrats could win.
And yet, he still—he went to southern Illinois to give a speech for Paul Simon, who was running for Congress. There was no national press there. I had come down from Chicago. That doesn't qualify as national press. And Kennedy gave everything for that speech. I mean, he gave a rip roaring speech.
And when it was all over, he went back to the airport. And he turned to his advance man, Jim King. And he said, did I do a good job? Did they like me? Was I good tonight? And Jim King said yes, senator. They liked you. You did very well.
It always amazed me that real politicians care about every speech. And they care about connecting to every crowd. And Ted Kennedy was like that.
MATTHEWS: So great. I had the same—a similar experience in Utah in 1971, in the Wayne Owens campaign, where he came in there and gave a barn burner for his former aid.
Ron, your thoughts on, your memories of Ted as the politicians, the one he became, the top Democrat in the country.
RON BROWNSTEIN, ATLANTIC MEDIA: Perfect compliment to Roger's story. That was Ted Kennedy the stem winder, at the stump. My memory is Ted Kennedy as the legislator on the inside of Congress, making change happen. I remember talking to him in 2006 when he was engaged in very difficult, very arduous negotiations with Republicans like John McCain, business and labor, trying to pull together an immigration reform package with the Bush administration.
And he was talking about the effort to kind of reach out beyond the traditional Democratic coalition and work with voices that were not often heard in Democratic counsel, which became his hallmark, really, when he returned to the Senate after the 1980 presidential race.
I asked him what the tolerance level was for his negotiating with—on both sides, for McCain and him engaging in these negotiations. He said, you know, the old guys understand it. But for the young guys, it's not where they're at.
And, in fact, Ted Kennedy was, as I said in "The Atlantic"—he was really a last of a breed, a senator who believed that an individual senator, through the dint of their intelligence and work and understanding, could build coalitions that wouldn't be formed otherwise, and could make change happen that wouldn't happen otherwise.
Now we're moving towards a much more parliamentary system, where everybody is expected to stand with their own side against the other. And the opportunity for someone to do what Ted Kennedy did so well for almost three decades really is eroding.
MATTHEWS: A friend of mine who worked for the leadership said the worst thing that ever happened in the U.S. Senate were those weekly lunches where is they all get together and agree on being in the same party. They'd be better of being committee chairs again.
By the way, as tribute to the fact that Ted Kennedy could put a
coalition together, the people who are speaking at the wake on Friday night
this is an unusual format far a Catholic service, but it's going to be a wake up there in Boston. Joe Biden, the vice president of the United States, who spoke so emotionally today; he's going to speak. John McCain of Arizona, who was the Republican nominee, he's going to speak. And John Kerry, the junior, now senior senator from Massachusetts.
Roger, it looks to me like a ticket that Ted Kennedy forged.
SIMON: It was. As Ron said, he really could bring people together. But he cared about doing so, and now there's just not the same feeling. I know there's the natural instinct whenever a great man passes to say oh, there will never be giants like this again. And in the olden times, everyone was great, not like now.
But it is hard to view the passing of a figure like Ted Kennedy and look at people today in the Senate who are going to devote their lives, decades, to doing what he did, who really care more about passing legislation than about advancing a partisan cause.
It's very hard to see that. And I don't think that argues good things for the years ahead.
BROWNSTEIN: Yes, I agree.
MATTHEWS: I'm feeling older an older. I tell you, I was in politics with Kirk O'Donnell and Tip O'Neill and Teddy Kennedy and Pat Moynihan, and they're all gone.
We're going to come right back and talk to Roger and Ron about what's coming up next in terms of Kennedy and Obama. Boy, talking about the Kennedy legacy and the saga. There's one more step in this saga. The new brother, Barack Obama. He got the torch handed to him last year. We'll be right back to talk about that as politics continues here in America and on HARDBALL. We'll be right back.
T. KENNEDY: For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail towards the shores of liberty and justice for all. Know there is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us. But I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.
MATTHEWS: Wow. We're back with the "Politico's" Roger Simon and Atlantic Media's Ron Brownstein.
I want to ask you, gentlemen, about the new brother, Barack Obama. The Kennedys passed the torch from brother to brother, from Joe Kennedy Jr. to Jack, to Bobby, to Ted. And then Ted Kennedy last year gave it to Barack Obama. He said he is the new brother.
I want to ask you that responsibility and what it means. It seems to me he has yet to take that full responsibility. And I'm being tough here. I'm being tough. Roger and Ron, when's he going to do it?
BROWNSTEIN: Certainly the endorsement from Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy, in particular, was an absolute turning point in the race. It signaled that the presumed advantage of Hillary Clinton with the Democratic establishment was not as solid as it seemed, and really was a turning point.
I think Barack Obama is putting his stamp on the Democratic party. He's not there yet. It's not clear exactly what this project becomes. But he has the potential to lastingly change the coalition and the nature of this party.
You're right, though. As a new president, it's inevitably a work in progress.
But don't forget, even Ted Kennedy was very much a work in progress. After his presidential run, his actual impact on American politics I think was very different than what it was before. He was less—in voice, he was always the champion of traditional liberalism. But in practice, he was a master legislative craftsman, certainly the best in modern times.
MATTHEWS: Roger?
SIMON: If he—if President Obama wants to carry the torch that the Kennedys have passed to him—and I think that's an apt metaphor, Chris—
President Obama is going to have to pass health care. There's just no two ways about it.
Ted Kennedy ran against Jimmy Carter, a sitting president of his own party, in 1980, because Carter had not pushed for health care in his first term, as Carter had promised. And Kennedy, we are told, extracted a promise from Barack Obama that he would, indeed, push for universal health care in his first term, in return for not just an endorsement, but it was a very strong endorsement.
MATTHEWS: Right, thank you. Roger, he has three more years to do it. Anyway, thank you, Roger Simon. Thank you, Ron Brownstein. Great to have you on.
I'll be back in an hour, at 7:00 Eastern, for another live edition of
Then at 9:00 Eastern, the premier of our documentary. We're very proud of it, "The Kennedy Brothers." Right now it's time for "THE ED SHOW" with Ed Schultz.
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Thread: xVotemap 220.127.116.11
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xVotemap 220.127.116.11
Versions <= 1.3.1 by aether. You can find versions < 1.5 here:
Calls an in-game vote for the next map near the end on the round. Randomly selects four maps (by default, can be adjusted) from the current maplist to vote on. Before the options are displayed, a banner can be shown to get the players attention that voting is about to commence.
The votes are tallied and if there are more votes than the set threshold, the winner is the map with the most votes. If there is a tie, the winner is selected at random from the tied maps. The next map is announced and it can be periodically displayed until the end of the round.
In-game Screenshots
Four displayed voting options without gamemode showing. Also shows vote confirmation message.
Optional voting banner used to get the attention of players before/during a vote.
BF3: Unzip the 'xVotemap.cs' into your '..\Plugins\BF3\' folder.
BF4: Unzip the 'xVotemap.cs' into your '..\Plugins\BF4\' folder.
In-game Commands
/# While a vote is in progress, votes for the option represented by the #.
/v Displays the vote options while a vote is in progress. If typed before a vote, it will display the predicted amount of time before the vote begins.
/nextmap Displays the next map.
/votemap Initiates/restarts a votemap if the player has map changing priviledges in Procon.
enablevotemap Enables the votemap plugin if the player has map changing priviledges in Procon.
disablevotemap Disables the votemap plugin if the player has map changing priviledges in Procon.
Enable Vote Banner?: Is the banner (designed to get the attention of players) displayed before the voting commences.
Voting Options Interval: Integer, in seconds, representing how often the map vote options are displayed once the voting poll opens.
Next Map Display Interval: Integer, in seconds, representing how often the winning next map is displayed after the voting is over but the round hasn't ended yet. A value of -1 will disable nextmap messages.
Show Gamemode in Voting Options? Determines if the shorthand notation for the gamemode is displayed in the voting options. This is most useful for those running mixed mode servers, especially if the same map is in the maplist with different gamemodes.
Map Options
Number of Vote Options Integer, between 2 and 8, representing the number of vote options to be displayed when a mapvote is called.
Exclude Current Map From Vote Options?: If yes, the current map with be excluded from the next map voting options, so to not allow the same map to be played twice.
Randomness: An integer from 0 to 10 representing the randomness of the map options for a vote. The algorithm changes the probability of each map and gamemode pair being selected as a vote option depending on how long ago it was last played.
Randomness = 0: Will rotate through the maplist, only showing the maps that haven't been played in a long time. Players should end up playing every map in the cycle.
Randomness = 5: Maps that haven't been played in a long time will have the highest probablity and recently played maps will have the lowest probability of being selected as vote options.
Randomness = 10: Every map has the same chance of being selected as an option. Players will tend to play the most popular maps repeatedly.
Trigger: If Automatic, the voting will be triggered automatically near the end of the round. If Manual, the voting will have to be triggered manually with the /votemap command.
Voting Threshold: Integer, representing the minimum total number of votes that must cast for the highest voted map to become the nextmap. If no map reaches this threshold, then the map will just roll over to the next map in the maplist.
Voting Duration: Integer, in seconds, representing the target length of time the voting poll is open for.
Time between Voting End and Round End (Conquest): Integer, in seconds, representing how long from the end of the round the voting will finish. In other words, at what time you want the voting to take place, mear seconds before the end of round or in the middle of round sometime.
Voting Start Time from Start of Round (Rush and Defuse (Elimination)): Integer, representing the time when voting will start, in seconds from the start of the round. In rush, there is no way to predict when the round will finish with the current RCON information, as the status of MCOMs are unknown. So you must estimate how long the shortest rush round would take and start the vote a couple of minutes earlier in order to ensure a vote will take place.
Debug Level: Integer between 0 and 5, where 0 outputs no plugin debug messages, and 5 which outputs even the most mundane steps.
Known issues BF3/BF4
If the maplist is changed during a vote the winning map will not correctly be the next map.
Known issues BF4
For TDM the gameserver reports 4 teams. (There are only 2)
Future Work
Improve Rush (and compatible) Auto Trigger
Improve map sorting algorithm.
Add maplist change event.
Change Log
NEW: New gamemode Chain Link (Dragon's Teeth DLC) is now supported.
Fix: added missing gamemode [CA] (CarrierAssaultSmall0) to vote options.
NEW: New gamemode Carrier Assault (Naval Strike DLC) is now supported
Fix: Next map display on round over scoreboard limited to last round
Fix: vote threshold display did not take vipvotes into account
Fix: Restarting a running vote did not properly reset the votes
New: Options (say, yell) to control the display of the next map/winning map
Fix: Added next map display when the scoreboard is displayed (THX to Hand of Shadow)
Fix: Changed Include/Exclude VIPs to Sync VIPs
NEW: Automatic Update Check
NEW: customizable votebanner
NEW: Show number of votes for each map
NEW: exclude current gamemode from vote options
NEW: time limit effective for all gamemodes (bf4 round time limit)
Fix: increase possible number of vote options
Fix: fixed error removing duplicates
Fix: Version Number
FIX: EXCEPTION CAUGHT IN: SetVoteStartAndEndTimes is now fixed (for all gamemodes)
FIX: Changed some messages to better reflect the current status
FIX: If the gameserver (for whatever reason) reports total-rounds = 0, votemap will asume total-rounds = 1. This should fix a bug some users are having. (votemap just not running, saying 'not next round')
FIX: EXCEPTION CAUGHT IN: SetVoteStartAndEndTimes is now fixed
FIX: increased default maxplayers to 70
NEW: Dynamic prefix vote options. THX to Hand of Shadow
FIX: Short Tags for BF4 Gamemodes. Thx BFTALON
NEW: BF4 Support
FIX: too many reservedSlots (ServerVIPs) requests
NEW: some things i forgot
Added: End Game Modes (CTF)
Fix: Public confirmation message was not updating correctly
Fix: Removal of duplicates in vote options was not working under certain circumstances
Added: Aftermath Modes (Scavenger)
Added: Option to enable/disable auto including ServerVIPs/ReservedSlots in VIP List
Added: VIP List
Added: VIP VoteCount
Fixed: show maps only once if they are double in maplist.
Fixed: GameModes
1.3.1 (09/04/12)
Fixed: /votemap to start a map vote.
1.3.0 (07/04/12)
Added: Yell announcement.
Added: In-game enable and disable.
1.2.3 (30/03/12)
Fixed: Mapnames fixed from patch.
1.2.2 (09/02/12)
Fixed: Maplist sort for 'Map Only' and 'Gametype Only'. Will still work on a better algorithm too.
1.2.1 (06/02/12)
Added: Information link with Ultimate Map Manager to ensure the voted map will be the next map if the maplist needs to change and it is still in the maplist.
Fixed: Remove current map bug.
Added: Improved map options display. Should reduce the chance of very long options.
Fixed: Gamemode should appear throughout the in-game message, if turned on.
1.2.0 (24/01/12)
Added: Ability to disable vote results from being displayed.
Added: Option to change the way the maplist is sorted.
Added: Option to display the nextmap before the vote.
Added: Option to set minimum and maximum player count limits for if the vote will take place.
1.1.5 (19/01/12)
Added: More debug messages
Fix: Serverinfo bug possibly =\
Change: Renamed to xVotemap. Delete old CxVotemap.
1.1.4 Stable (15/01/12)
Fix: /votemap command now works on all rounds.
Fix: Between rounds error bug.
1.1.3 Beta (09/01/12)
Fix: Votemap starting too early.
1.1.2 Beta (09/01/12)
Fix: Minimal changes.
1.1.1 Beta (09/01/12)
Fix: Several bugs that were in the new randomness code. A lot of console debug text has been added, most will be removed or suppressed when this version is proved stable.
1.1.0 Beta (07/01/12)
Added: Randomness, a new algorithm to decide which maps are chosen to be vote options.
Added: Ability to disable votemap starting automatically.
1.0.1 Stable (06/01/12)
Fixed: Tweaked various algorithms
Fixed: Squad rush bug
1.0.0 Stable (05/01/12)
Added: Warning for incorrect vote command
Last edited by grizzlybeer; 15-07-2014 at 17:47.
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Nice, giving this a try!
01-11-2013, 20:25 #3
Thx dude, will test it when R4 is live in some minutes =)
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Many thanks Grizzly, will report back any issues, donation winging its way to you now and very much looking forward to 'truebalancer'
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I'm getting an error showing up... it seemed to be running okay when the server was full with 64 people on conquest, then we had a server crash and it went back to the first maplist, which are all TDM maps.
Plugin logging started: Friday, 1 November 2013 20:40:40
[20:40:40] Loading plugin cache..
[20:40:40] Preparing plugins directory..
[20:40:40] Moving legacy plugins..
[20:40:40] Creating compiler..
[20:40:40] Configuring compiler..
[20:40:40] Running with native .Net..
[20:40:40] Building sandbox..
[20:40:40] Configuring sandbox..
[20:40:40] Compiling and loading plugins..
[20:40:40] Compiling CBasicInGameInfo.cs... Using Cache
[20:40:40] Loading CBasicInGameInfo... Loaded
[20:40:40] Compiling CInGameAdmin.cs... Using Cache
[20:40:40] Loading CInGameAdmin... Loaded
[20:40:40] Compiling CSpambot.cs... Using Cache
[20:40:40] Loading CSpambot... Loaded
[20:40:40] Compiling CUltimateMapManager.cs... Using Cache
[20:40:40] Loading CUltimateMapManager... Loaded
[20:40:40] Compiling TeamspeakSync.cs... Using Cache
[20:40:41] Loading TeamspeakSync... Loaded
[20:40:41] Compiling xVotemap.cs... Using Cache
[20:40:41] Loading xVotemap... Loaded
[20:40:41] In-Game Admin Enabled!
[20:40:41] UltimateMapManager: Enabled!
[20:40:43] xVotemap Enabled!
[20:40:43] [xVotemap] Info: Not last round. Stopping voting system.
[20:40:43] [xVotemap] Error: EXCEPTION CAUGHT IN: SetVoteStartAndEndTimes
[20:40:43] [xVotemap] Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
[20:42:31] xVotemap Disabled =(
[20:42:42] UltimateMapManager: Disabled =(
[20:42:46] UltimateMapManager: Enabled!
[20:42:46] xVotemap Enabled!
[20:42:47] [xVotemap] Info: Not last round. Stopping voting system.
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Hey grizzly im not seeing the modes in procon for shorthand so people know what type of map they are voting for .. the new modes like what i added in my earlier version . (OB) and (DF) . right now it just blank no mode listed . my edits fixed that problem . maybe we can add those back in?
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text: Either toned-down Iggy, next-gen emo, or Collective Soul redux, depending on how you look at it. Led up by former Underoath drummer Aaron Gillespie, these Floridians hit No. 39 on the Billboard Top 200 with 2009's Monster Monster, written and performed entirely by Gillespie, whose yell recalls Chris Cornell to some extent, a good match for his mildly punkish blues-rawk fetish. "I Won't Let Go" has its Hoobastank side, whether or not it's drowned out some by the jagged guitars, and "So What" is even more geeky. But I digress; all the songs, particularly the first few, have an open-hearted, raw energy uncommon to the punk-pop bands they'll inevitably be compared to. "Love Is Coming Down" is part Stones and part Goo Goo Dolls, but "Ghost" is the one that's really cool, a few no-wave sounds soldered onto '70s Foghat-style blues — there's no doubt in my mind I'll hear that one in a movie theater lobby or something and won't be able to remember who the band is for the life of me. A — Eric W. Saeger


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Kerry: 'Hell of a Pinpoint Operation' by Israel
In a conversation with an aide that was caught on an open microphone Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to express concerns about the tactics being used by Israel in its Gaza invasion.
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Rubio breaks with party to oppose deal on 'fiscal cliff'
WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. Marco Rubio broke with his party Tuesday and voted against a bipartisan compromise to avoid the "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts.
Rubio was one of only eight senators who voted against the deal, which passed with 89 votes and had the support of many staunch fiscal conservatives. Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson voted for it.
The measure passed around 2 a.m., two hours past the fiscal cliff deadline. Three senators did not vote.
The House could vote on the legislation today.
MORE: Senate OKs fiscal cliff deal; bill heads to House today
FULL COVERAGE: The Fiscal Cliff
Democratic and Republican leaders described the compromise as an imperfect but necessary agreement to prevent serious economic harm to families, businesses and the economy.
But Rubio, R-West Miami, said the deal would raise "job-killing taxes" and would do little to rein in the nation's spiraling debt, now above $16 trillion.
"Rapid economic growth and spending reforms are the only way out of the real fiscal cliff our nation is facing," he said in a statement issued after the vote. "But rapid economic growth and job creation will be made more difficult under the deal reached here in Washington."
Under the deal, tax rates would remain unchanged for the middle class and rise at incomes over $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples.
Those thresholds are higher than the ones President Barack Obama had campaigned on his way to winning re-election.
It's unclear how many people in Florida would be affected by the new thresholds because the IRS web site does not break down taxpayers that way. It does show Florida residents filed more than 52,000 tax returns in 2010 reporting an income of $500,000 or more.
The deal also would defer $24 billion in spending cuts aimed at the Pentagon and domestic programs. That would allow the White House and lawmakers to regroup before plunging quickly into a new round of budget brinkmanship. Republicans are certain to demand action to rein in the cost of Medicare and other government benefit programs.
Rubio said the compromise measure's tax increases would saddle thousands of small businesses with higher taxes.
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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky had a different take.
"Each of us could spend the rest of the week discussing what a perfect solution would have looked like, but the end result would have been the largest tax increase in American history," McConnell said on the Senate floor. "It took an imperfect solution to prevent our constituents from (experiencing) very real financial pain. But in my view, it was worth the effort."
As negotiations on the deal neared a conclusion Monday, Nelson, D-Orlando, spoke on the House floor on the need for compromise.
"People want us to come together and stop this bickering and the excessive partisanship," he said. "I think ideological rigidity and excessive partisanship are impediments to getting people to come together with common-sense decisions for solutions."
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Dodging the 'So You're Still Single?' Holiday Question
Part of the Dodging the 'So You're Still Single' Holiday Question Series
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My mother lives next door to my old elementary school principal. Every time I travel home to Idaho to visit my family, Mr. Turner pulls out of his driveway on the way to who-knows-where, stops in front of my mother's house, honks (at which time I come out into the yard) and motions me over to his SUV. "Let me see your hand," he says. Like a rehearsed play, I hold out my naked left ring finger where he looks for a rock. "Still single, huh? I just can't believe that a beautiful woman like you isn't married."
At this point, I say what I always do, "You better start praying!" I chuckle, he chuckles, but I still feel a little like someone just hurled a boulder into the pit of my stomach.
Mr. Turner isn't the only one who asks questions about my single status. My family does, too, especially my extended family, once a year when Christmas rolls around and we all meet to celebrate Christ's birth.
Yes, it's the season to be jolly—and I am; it's also the season for which Jesus is the reason (and I'm so very thankful for Him) but when I walk into the room where I am greeted by aunts, uncles and cousins, most of whom I haven't seen for 365 days, I know I'll probably have to dodge questions about my love life.
Can you relate? Do you wonder how you can handle questions about your singleness during the holidays? Here are some tips:
First, silence your internal questions
Several summers ago I had a hangnail on my big toe. I was the only one who knew it was there and it didn't bother me much while it was healing—until someone stepped on my foot, which made me almost jump through the roof.
Without exception, before anyone has ever asked me about my marital status, I have already posed the same questions to myself. That's why the questions hurt so much. It's like having a sore toe that someone unknowingly steps on. Therefore, you can deal with the pain of the questions about your single life by bringing them to God for healing and truth before anyone has a chance to ask them. That way they won't hurt quite as much.
Here are some questions you may have asked yourself about your single life:
- What is wrong with you?
- Why haven't you found anyone?
- Do you think that you are too picky?
- Why aren't you seeing someone?
- What went wrong in your last relationship?
- Aren't you tired of being alone?
- Why haven't you held a relationship together?
- Have you ever thought that perhaps you just aren't good at making love last?
If you ask yourself why you are alone, reaffirm your trust in a sovereign God who loves you. If you doubt your ability to love, believe that God is able to give us the right kind of heart needed to love others. If you think you're somehow dysfunctional, and that's why you can't have a relationship, remind the Devil, who is the author of accusation, that God dearly loves you and that He has created you for a particular purpose and plan which is unfolding day by day.
Take your questions to Christ and let Him minister to the hurt before you see your family or friends. Then, when someone brings up a question you've already asked yourself, you can come back with a peaceful, faith-filled answer.
Focus on others
It's been a few years since- I attended my twenty-year high school reunion. I loved my classmates and I was looking forward to seeing everyone again—but I wasn't looking forward to answering questions about my personal life since I am the only woman who hasn't married. So, I decided to make a plan of attack on how to deal with questions like Mr. Turner's.
Rather than focus on the pain of being single, I decided I would reach out to my classmates from the beginning of our reunion. I would hug them, look them in the eye and try to make them feel as comfortable as possible since many of them would probably be feeling as uneasy as me.
After we greeted one another, I walked around each table, smiled and gave them a big squeeze. Wouldn't you know, something amazing happened? My worries about my love life and what people would think about me being a modern-day old maid vanished. Instead, I was blessed as I blessed my old friends.
In the same way, when you can arm yourself with a heart for service to love your family and friends over the holidays, you'll stop focusing on the questions they might ask, and instead, you'll bless them. You'll be liberated, I promise. And beside that, you'll glorify God.
Don't dwell on what you don't have
When I was a teacher, I learned that the best plan of attack for a smooth running classroom was always preparation. The same applies when dealing with love-life inquiries. Before you meet those whom you think may grill you on your dating life, focus on what you do, rather than what you don't, have. This will arm you with an attitude of gratitude and take much of the sting of the inquisition away.
What do you have? What has God given you? Do you have a great group of girlfriends? A wonderful niece? A marvelous nephew? Do you have the ability to make Christmas cookies and share them with others? Focus on what you do have, not on what you don't, and you'll face questions about your love life with greater peace because you'll have the right heart attitude.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying that you will never hurt once you do these three things, but I will guarantee that you will handle questions gracefully, with love and in the kind of faith that will make God proud!
Shana Schutte is a freelance writer, author and speaker living in Colorado Springs, Colo. (www.runtogodministries.org)


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An AP article from South Bend, IN (available at www.USATODAY.com and dated 7 Feb 2008) announces the return to the public (after restoration) of the carriage that carried President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln to Ford's Theater the night he was assassinated. Built in 1864 by Wood Brothers of New York, it was restored by B. R. Howard and Associates of Carlisle, PA last year, and is now on display at the Studebaker National Museum in Indiana.
After the assassination, the barouche went to Robert Todd Lincoln, who sold it to Dr. F. B. Brewer, a New York physician, who in turn sold it in 1889 to Clement Studebaker.
Regarding the condition of the vehicle, the article reports that, "when it arrived at the workshop, the carriage was in very poor condition because of deteriorating wood, leather and fabric." "Workers discovered the carriage originally wasn't black, but rather dark green with maroon, gold and white details... Conservators also uncovered an elaborate cursive presidential monogram - A. L. - on each door, which had been painted over."
If you would like to read more about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Footnote.com has the complete trial papers from the National Archives, and a number of Story Pages have been written on this site about others involved in this tragic event.


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Enea has announced availability of its Enea Optima 2.1, an Eclipse-based IDE. Optima 2.1 features enhanced system-level debugging functionality for multicore and multiprocessor application development.
Enea Optima 2.1 integrates two system-level debug tools:
- The Enea Black Box Recorder which provides an operating system independent and portable high-performance trace and log implementation for target systems.
- The Optima Log Analyzer provides visual presentation of the captured log information in Gantt charts, sequence charts, state charts, plots and textual views. It provides automated facilities for importing logs, collecting and refining log data, filtering and searching logs, fusing and managing multiple logs, and mapping recorded information to high-level models.
In addition to supporting embedded operating systems like OSE, Linux, and VxWorks, the Optima release extends these capabilities to DSPs by providing support for Enea OSEck, a high-performance operating system for signal processing applications.
"As the amount of software is rapidly growing in modern multicore and multi CPU embedded systems, it becomes more and more difficult to obtain the insight needed to develop, test and maintain it" said Mathias Bath, senior vice president of marketing at Enea. "To help solve this problem, our Optima Tool Suite raises the abstraction level allowing application debugging to be done at the system level, rather than individual source code lines. The results are shorter development cycles and higher quality products."
The Enea Optima tool suite is an Eclipse-based IDE targeting the Enea OSE, Enea OSEck and other real-time and embedded operating systems. Using the Eclipse platform and C/C++ development tools, Optima provides system-level browsing, debugging, profiling and analysis tools for debugging and optimization of large-scale distributed applications spanning multiple processors. All Optima plug-ins support fully distributed debugging, which enables any target CPU or DSP in a connected network to be accessed without the need for a direct connection.


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Lemme Check Your Phone: People That Were Always Jealous Of Their Boo Thangs
It must be difficult to have a relationship with someone that's adored and pined over by millions across the world. So it's almost impossibly to not be incredibly jealous. But these people take it a little far. Ease up!
Seal – Heidi Klum dumped him for his super jealous ways. He should have been content with her and not tripped about her career being better than his. Now he's pining like a bum.
Marc Anthony – He was a pain for J. Lo because he was wondering who she was running around with. It's not like she's ever ch- nevermind.
Vanessa Bryant – She had good reason to be jealous. But that didn't stop her from being overbearing and kinda crazy.
Rihanna – That whole fight with Breezy came from her going all through his phone. It's fair to say they had some issues…
Chris Brown – He was flipping out after they broke up and going crazy if anyone came close to her. Take a chill pill, homie.
Diddy – We heard about him yanking Cameron Diaz around a few parties because he didn't want people talking to her. Take that, take that.
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Shaunie O'Neal – She was all over Shaq's personal life with private investigators and everything. But she was also doing her own dirty dogging!
Kris Humphries – Kim's reality show is making Kris seem like he was irrational, jealous and wanted her money. But we're not sure how jealous this mouth breather was.
Bobby Brown – He used to fight dudes that came anywhere near Whitney. Maybe chemicals had something to do with it. Hmmm…
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Despite an extended absence from the national set-up (2004-08) while he was establishing his Premier League career, Ryan Nelsen was at the forefront of almost all of New Zealand's best football moments in the past 14 years.
He is the only player to turn out at the 1999 and 2003 Confederations Cups as well as the 2010 World Cup, and would have been at the 2009 Confederations Cup if not for injury.
Perhaps the best statistic to sum up his impact is what happened when he was not there. In Ricki Herbert's tenure as national coach, the All Whites have lost 21 games. Only four of those defeats came with Nelsen on the field.
A 22-year-old Nelsen made his first All Whites appearance in a 0-0 draw versus Poland on June 18, 1999, in Bangkok, coming on as substitute in the King's Cup match. With the next game a 1-0 loss to Oman, his first victory in an All Whites shirt came against Malaysia 5-0 in July 1999 in Kuala Lumpur. He scored the first of seven international goals against the same opponents the following year and in 10 months in 2002-03 scored four times in six All Whites matches.
Nelsen's column; Five of the best
All Whites 1 Australia 0, 2002
Nelsen scored what he called the "biggest goal of his career", ghosting in at the far post in the 82nd minute to volley home a deep cross. The All Whites' first win over Australia on home soil for 13 years, sent them to the 2003 Confederations Cup and was worth US$1 million to New Zealand football. The Socceroos, with only one of their European-based players, dominated but couldn't break through, leaving the door open for Nelsen's late strike. "The Aussies were very cocky for that game," Nelsen recalled. "They were in complete shock but we had more of a desire to win."
All Whites 1 Scotland 1, 2003
Nelsen was a stand-out in New Zealand's first positive away result against a home nation. He marshalled the defence superbly alongside veteran captain Chris Zorocich and scored the vital equaliser in the 47th minute. His goal was similar to the one against Australia, as he slid between two defenders to force home a free kick from Aaran Lines.
After the match, Nelsen showed the single-mindedness, determination and high standards that came to symbolise his career: "It was encouraging but I still think we could do a hell of a lot better. I suppose we're happy with the result but we missed a couple of chances; I missed one in the first half and Linesy missed a one-on-one that could have won us the game."
The 2003 Confederations Cup was extremely disappointing but Nelsen handled himself well at that level and his displays against French striker Thierry Henry (then at the peak of his powers) caught the eye of then Blackburn manager Mark Hughes and resulted in a trial for the club.
All Whites 1 Bahrain 0, 2009
Before this match in Wellington, no one knew what to expect. The first leg, a 0-0 draw in the Bahrain capital Manama, had attracted minimal interest but the nation clicked that the All Whites were on the edge of a dream. Nike plastered promotional posters across the capital declaring 'No one escapes the full Nelsen' and that is how it played out. Nelsen was immense across 95 unbelievably tense minutes, especially in the final stages when Bahrain launched constant waves at the New Zealand goal. "Ryan was the difference in Bahrain and especially [in Wellington]," reflected Mark Paston two days after the game. "I don't know if we would have made it without him."
All Whites 1 Slovakia 1, 2010 World Cup
Slovakia had topped their European qualifying group and were expected to deal comfortably with their underdog opponents. After starting confidently, the All Whites lost their momentum and fell behind early in the second half. But they persevered, creating chances at the death until Winston Reid's unforgettable equaliser.
With many of his team-mates struggling with nerves on the big stage, Nelsen's composure on and off the ball helped them through, especially young backline tyros Reid and Tommy Smith. He also sent the message that New Zealand were not there to make up the numbers, towering over a Slovakian attacker (who had attempted to foul him) with fist raised and a stare that could break a rock.
Reid had been partially at fault for the Slovakian goal but Nelsen encouraged him to push forward in the last few minutes. "You have to chance your arm and he's a big boy with big springs so we sent him up there," said Nelsen. "I said to the boys before the game that it is 90 minutes long but all it takes is a few seconds to etch your name in history. Those few seconds happened for us in the 93rd minute."
All Whites 1 Italy 1, 2010 World Cup
It's hard to imagine there will ever be a more unlikely result in New Zealand football, nor a better display of defensive resilience. While the world champions had faded somewhat since 2006, they were still representing a nation of more than 3500 professional footballers against a country that could count around 25.
Nelsen was again imperious in defence, especially in the last 10 minutes. He continually popped up where he was most needed, showing tremendous anticipation and the experience of a long Premier League career. His displays earned him a place in Goal.Com's World Cup team of the week.
"He is second to none ... extremely inspirational," Herbert said of Nelsen. "This is a unique team. I've never seen anything like this."


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Well, this is a shame. The Mars Volta, a band I have always had a great deal of respect for, is officially no more.
Via the A.V. Club, lead singer/freak of nature Cedric Bixler Zavala announced his departure, and the band's breakup, in a series of tweets last night:
I have to say, the only Volta album I ever really loved was their early full-length, De-Loused in the Comatorium. But what an album it was, MadLibs lyrics, self-indulgent ambient interludes and all. You can check out the standout track "Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)" up top being played in Audiosurf by Bazaam86. I've always loved Jon Theodore's methodically, mathematically shifting drumming at 2:20.
Anyone out there a fan of these guys? Sad (or happy) to see them go, interested in their new projects? Feel free to discuss bands, music, or whatever else, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum.


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One Direction pretend to be waxworks in fan prank
ONE DIRECTION gave four fans the scare of their lives by posing as statues in a London waxwork museum and springing to life when the unsuspecting girls got up close.
The youngsters were under the impression they were visiting Madame Tussauds to film a promotional video, and had no idea they had actually been selected to meet the boyband as part of a segment on TV series Surprise Surprise.
The singers, who wore make-up to give their skin a 'waxy' appearance, stood next to figures of Beyonce and Britney Spears, stifling laughter as their excited fans inspected them.
One of the girls seemed suspicious of how life-like the boys were, commenting, "It's really odd... I swear Liam (Payne) just moved!" - and the boys then leaped into action.
The episode of Surprise Surprise airs on Sunday (18Nov12).


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Chapter 2 Production Market Analysis
2.1 Global Production Market Analysis
2.1.1 2013-2018 Global Capacity, Production, Capacity Utilization Rate, Ex-Factory Price, Revenue, Cost, Gross and Gross Margin Analysis of Flavors Market
2.1.2 2013-2018 Major Manufacturers Performance and Market Share
2.2 Regional Production Market Analysis
2.2.1 2013-2018 Flavors Regional Market Performance and Market Share
2.2.2 United States Market
2.2.3 Europe Market
2.2.4 China Market
2.2.5 Japan Market
2.2.6 India Market
2.2.7 Market
Chapter 3 Flavors Sales Market Analysis
3.1 Global Sales Market Analysis
3.1.1 2013-2018 Global Sales Volume, Sales Price and Sales Revenue Analysis
3.1.2 2013-2018 Major Manufacturers Performance and Market Share
3.2 Regional Sales Market Analysis
3.2.1 2013-2018 Regional Market Performance and Market Share
3.2.2 United States Market
3.2.3 Europe Market
3.2.4 China Market
3.2.5 Japan Market
3.2.6 India Market
Chapter 4 Consumption Market Analysis
4.1 Global Consumption Market Analysis
4.1.1 2013-2018 Global Consumption Volume Analysis
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