Wishing Ted Kennedy the very best in a very difficult situation – a malignant brain tumor (glioma) and possibly less than a year to live.
The diagnosis cast a pall over Capitol Hill, where the Massachusetts Democrat has served since 1962.
“All of the oxygen went out of the room,” when the news broke, said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who called Kennedy “a mentor.”
Some senators later wept as they publicly considered the potential mortality of a man who was at the center of nearly a half-century of some of the nation’s most important legislative issues.
Man, that sucks… big time.