Naming Health Care Reform Bill After Kennedy Won't Work: Democrats Playing Dangerous Game

RFFM.org ^ | August 28, 2009 | Daniel T. Zanoza

[Daniel T. Zanoza]

I would like to offer my condolences to the family of Sen. Ted Kennedy who passed away earlier this week, though I strongly disagreed with most of the values espoused by the late Democratic Senator from Massachusetts.

With the praise of Kennedy for his service to the nation must come the facts regarding an individual who had deep flaws of character, but I will leave judgment regarding such matters to others. I am troubled concerning the rush by the far left to use Kennedy's death as a political tool. Liberal extremists--who now control both Houses of Congress and the White House--will do ...

[nomad]

I make no bones about it,Ted Kennedy was a drunken,radical leftist,murdering creep.I wounder how he feels about abortion or Chappaquiddick Bay now?I imagine that he`s "got some splainin to do,hey Loocy!".

[lakertaker]

Ted Kennedy's death coverage is another example of the divide between the press and the elites. Ted was not popular west of the Hudson outside the DC/Boston/New York press

[Ev Reeman]

Renaming the bill after Kennedy is like putting lipstick on a pig. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck even if you try to call it an owl instead, it’s still a duck.

[JohnLongIsland]

There is a lot of people in the Democrat party that have no use for the Kennedys, ask the Clintons.

[Flag_This]

Bury the bill with Teddy.

[Fredgoblu]

Call it Obamacare,
Call it a government "option",
Call it a coop,
Call it universal care,
Call it socialized medicine,
Or call it Kennedycare...

A piece of crap by any other name still stinks.