Jimmuh Carter Slams Ted Kennedy

Somebody needs to get word to Jimmuh that it's not polite to speak ill of the dead.  That's what conservatives were told when Kennedy assumed room temperature.

However, Jimmuh, who's never met a grudge he couldn't obsess over, takes after dead Teddy over the issue of health care:

The late Sen. Ted Kennedy is widely hailed for devoting his political career to the cause of providing health care to all Americans. But in an interview set to air on 60 Minutes Sunday, former President Jimmy Carter says Kennedy is the one to blame for delaying legislation to provide such care.

"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 told CBS correspondent Leslie Stahl. "It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill."

Carter said Kennedy blocked the bill out of spite in advance of the Massachusetts senator's unusual, yet ultimately unsuccessful 1980 bid to unseat him.

"He did not want to see me have a major success in that realm of life," Carter said.

Grumpy old man.