Posted on 07/25/2009 9:07:17 PM PDT by Steelfish
Kennedy is making a final press for universal healthcare, from his sickbed
As Congress wrestles with legislation to give Americans access to quality care, which the Democrat worked toward for 46 years, the senator is sidelined with brain cancer, but not out of the game.
Faye Fiore and Noam N. Levey July 25, 2009
Reporting from Washington -- Ted Kennedy wakes up mornings in his house on Cape Cod to a packet of news clippings put together by his wife. If there's a hearing going on in Washington, he watches on his computer.
Five hundred miles away, Congress is wrestling with historic legislation to give every American access to quality healthcare. It is the moment the Massachusetts Democrat has worked toward for 46 years. But instead of marshaling the crowning achievement of his political career, he is sidelined, battling brain cancer.
"He has lived for this day when America would finally extend this right to every citizen. There's no doubt if he could, he would be here in the thick of this," Kennedy's son Patrick, a Democratic congressman from Rhode Island, said in a recent interview, sitting on a bench on the Capitol grounds with tears in his eyes.
But history's third longest-serving senator isn't out of the game yet. Exerting what influence he can from his sickbed, he advises his aides in Washington over the phone. He has made himself the poster child of what he calls "my life's cause," and is using his illness in a final press for universal health care.
Kennedy, 77, seems determined not to miss this. He has outlasted medical expectations since doctors diagnosed a malignant tumor last spring, and is not above expending every last bit of his political capital to deliver the bill he will be most remembered for.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
"Democratic leaders are making plans to bring him back to the Senate floor later this year in a wheelchair, a bed if necessary, to cast his vote for heathcare reform."
Shut up, you murderer.
Oh sure-—a kennedy on a universal health care plan. He should thank his LUCKY STARS that at his age, he is from a rich family and has congressional insurance-the very best in the world. Why...on Uhbama’s plan, he would have already received his FREE COUNSELING, er, that would be DEATH COUNSELING, and been nicely prodded into refraining from any life saving (and oh so EXPENSIVE) prodedures, you know, like oxygen, or maybe HYDRATION (water) or even FOOD (sustanence) but would have gladly been handed pain meds...ie morphine...to ease death.
They let Patches out of rehab?
The damage this man has done to our country since 1964.
Do you remember the end of the movie “Brave Heart”-—where the King on his deathbed gets the bad news about his Heir?
Let’s make sure that the last words that Kennedy hears are..the bill has failed to pass!
For Teddy! For Teddy!
Of course the Lame Stream Media will not report that fact. They will only report the story on purely an emotional basis without the facts.
He’s the “poster child” for drunkedness, political corruption, and perversion.
Hell awaits you, you fat bastard.
Who was the 19th century artist who painted “Lincoln being welcomed into heaven by Washington”?
Sniff! I can’t imagine any one less doing this subject justice.
(Sob!)
Mary Jo Kopechne not available for comment.
But, but, who’s going to look after us happy little darkies with our Main Man gone?
“He’s outlasted medical estimates...”
Yeah, like that’s a surprise. Millions of dollars, the best doctors, the most experimental treatments from the best facilities anywhere.
This selfish a$$hole wants us to praise him for wanting to pass the crappiest, rationed socialist healthcare that will federalize 16% of the GDP, and ensure that NO average citizen will ever get the lavish, cadillac, experimental coverage that Kennedy has received to eek out a few extra months?
Utterly stomach churning.
Abortion, opening the gates on immigration, blocking school-choice, scuttling Judge Bork, and the list goes on and on
" Geee Whiz, Uncle Ted...you don't have to go through that counseling session where they tell you about all the fun ways you can get to heaven without having to spend someone else's money or time or ANYTHING! HURRAH!!
"And you get to keep your present insurance and hey, you can have all the medical testing and stuff you need, Uncle Teddy...you do not have to worry about your age anymore-we think you have VALUE JUST THE WAY YOU ARE! No kidding! You are one lucky man, Uncle Ted!
Teddy this will be a bridge to far for your sorry Kennedy ass.
” lavish, cadillac, experimental coverage”
Mary Jo got Oldsmobile “coverage”/s
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