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
“Universal” health care isn’t going to bring Mary Jo back, Chappaquiddick Ted.
You nailed it.
Why if there no Barf Alert for this thread????
Wow, just wow. Staying alive to finish his plans. What about the plans of all the people that these "Gods" are going to cut short?
Don’t forget that it was he who opened the door to the 3rd world tidal wave with his immigration reform in the 60s. When you think Minnesota is now Somalia north, when you think of the Southwest as Aztlan, when California is now Chinese, be sure to thank Kennedy.
“Cross Over the Bridge” by Patti Page should be the first thing he hears every morning!
Kennedy should be counseled on dying so the resources he’s using can be used on someone younger.
Kennedy already has a memorial--Chappaquidick bridge/river. I say let that be his memorial.
vaudine
Bring it on: Challenge the Senator to rely solely on the benefits available under the proposed legislation.
I view TK like I do the jhadists, who think they will get 70 virgins.. You see TK wants fame for having written a lot of this Healthcare like Hill did, but won’t get it. It will not pass, if we all pray against it daily. So close but so far away, or he won’t live to see the murdering that was written...no glory, no satisfaction.
In the case of jhadists, there are probably 70 virgins in hell, but in hereafter there is no sex. It’ll be like Healthcare, you’ll have it, but can’t use it.
Yeh - way to go Ted! Now that your illness may take your life soon, its okay to condemn the rest of us to death by denying life sustaining treatments for us. But you got yours didn’t you? And so did the Judge with the pancreatic cancer...she’d have been dead by now if she didn’t get her treatment!
And now with your dying breath...you will commit mass murder with the rest of the treasonous reps who push for the deathcare, by allowing human life to dwindle, & at the same time, keep all of your bank accounts full!
LOL!
Oh they’ll get their 70 virgins....they’ll just be 70 Star Trek geeky virgins!!!
It’s a good thing Teddy gets the gold plated plan from the Senate, and not socialized health care, otherwise, he’d already be dead or shipped off to the Soylent Green factory to be turned into scotch flavored crackers.
The Cape Cod Orca is a traitor. There, I said it. (Anybody else remember that KGB report? /s)
Reminds me of a Bible verse....
Mar 14: .... But how terrible it will be for my betrayer. Far better for him if he had never been born!
“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.”
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If only he had tried as hard to save Mary Jo.
Why hasn’t this lunatic been ousted? It’s obvious to the entire nation that he can no longer fulfill his obligations to the Senate. He’s just another Democrat sucking money and power from the U.S. taxpayers. Replace him with someone that can actually do the job.
Just relax, Teddy, and take it easy. You’ve already done enough for (to) your country.
Yeah, it will be like how they exploited Wellstone, only more because he’s a Kennedy.
I like your way of thinking!
The way it’s written he should be terminated before he can cast a vore!
The people of MA are on the hook for having re-elected this guy so many time to wreak havoc on our nation.
I stopped reading exactly HERE!
Wish someone had the guts to propose a “Mary Jo Amendment” that required public service announcements on how we are required, by law, to report any cars that drive off bridges, with young women inside them!
Now it comes to this disastrous health care bill and Teddy is releasing stories that he is all over it. Yeah, right. Ted is phoning it in, if that, attempting to stay alive long enough to get some of the ceremonial glory that this piece of wreckage will get when it is signed.
Sheesh, someone pull the plug.
12.Faye Fiore is a joke, but not a funny one. From the Media Research Center, December 13, 2006:
On Monday, in a story headlined “Pelosi Piques Public’s Interest,” Los Angeles Times reporter Faye Fiore portrayed Pelosi as not liberal but charismatic: “Only weeks ago, Republicans were doing their best in the heat of the campaign to paint Pelosi, 66, as a conservative’s nightmare — a San Francisco liberal out of touch with the American mainstream. But more recently, a poll measuring political charisma showed that she had ‘dramatically improved her standing’ with the public, sponsors of the survey said, with voters knowing her better and feeling warmer toward her.”
I wonder if Faye Fiore is related to Mark Fiore, political cartoonist and animator, who did his little turn furthering the MSM sneers about Palin in this little cartoon...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/10/15/fiorepalin.DTL
If Kennedy really wants to represent 0bamaCare properly, he would end all treatment and stop waisting valuable time and medication on himself.
0bama wants the old and seriously ill to stop being a burden on Amerika’s health care system.
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