Is it time for Ted Kennedy to step down?

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It amounts to cruelty when he drags himself to come to the Convention, to the inauguration and to vote on the stimulus package.

He is battling cancer, has had a major brain surgery and is not getting any younger.

Yet, we are dependent on his vote in the Senate. Earlier a pundit said that the three Republican were going to be unhappy that they alone were going to reach the magic number of 60. Not 61 as we had earlier this week, with Kennedy, but 60. And if we ever welcome Al Franken to the Senate, we will would have had 59 even without the three Republicans.

It is unfair to put such a pressure on him and, no doubt, he himself sees the importance of his vote. But he is at the end of his teeter.

As a long time public servant, he should be the first to realize how important this seat is to the country and how unfair it is to be dependent on his health.

(Besides, time for John Kerry to become, at age 65, the Senior Senator of Massachusetts)

OK, start flaming.