We’ll find out if the senators who were crying in the moment will be ready to get serious about cancer

Jonathan Alter in Newsweek:

It’s too bad that Hamilton Jordan isn’t still alive to remind the media that Ted Kennedy isn’t already dead. Jordan, who died last week after surviving four different cancers for 22 years, would have loathed those funereal and, in the case of the New York Post (TED IS DYING), offensive headlines about Kennedy. So does Kennedy, no doubt …

We’ll soon find out if the senators who were choked up last week at the prospect of losing their beloved colleague will be ready to get serious about cancer. Think we’re already spending enough? Jordan sent me an e-mail toting up how we spend more in six months in Iraq ($54 billion) than we’ve spent in 30 years on the National Cancer Institute, which funds most cancer research. Today, only two in 10 grant proposals from qualified researchers are funded by the NCI, which means that plenty of possible cures die for lack of funding.

Newsweek site carries video of Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-West Virginia) apparently weeping as he delivers a statement about Sen. Kennedy.

See earlier post.

See also: Networks join forces to fight cancer.

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