NO CLASS IS NO CLASS – AT 8:29 A.M. ET:  We occasionally follow, with fascination, the maneuvers of one Jimmah Carter, an accidental president and one-man nation-wrecking machine.  Jimmah's last outburst, a few days ago, assured Americans that the well-meaning folk in the North Korean government are sincerely interested in a deal with the United States.  Why would we think otherwise?

Now little Jimmah is out with a startling charge:

Former President Jimmy Carter says the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) is to blame for delaying the implementation of health care reform for 30 years.

In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Carter says that health care reform during his presidency fell through because Kennedy killed the bill.

“The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed,” Carter said of the senator who died last year.

“It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill,” Carter added, blaming a political feud between the then-titans of Democratic politics. “He did not want to see me have a major success in that realm of life.”

COMMENT:  The incredible shrinking Carter.  Whether you liked Ted Kennedy or not really isn't the issue.  Carter didn't even have the decency to make his charge while Kennedy was alive, and could reply.  He waited for the man to die. 

Jimmy Carter is a petty little man who should never be taken seriously.  His election to the presidency in 1976 came as a result of public revulsion over Watergate and other things happening in Washington.  It demonstrates the danger of votes cast for negative reasons only.

An Urgent Agenda source informs us that Carter and his wife were despised by the permanent White House staff.

Carter lost a good chunk of the Jewish vote to Ronald Reagan in 1980, and has since become militantly anti-Israel.  I suspect that the two are related.

Mr. Small Time.

September 17, 2010