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Senate Lion Ted Kennedy Roars Once More for National Health Care
FoxNews ^ | January 16, 2009

Posted on 01/16/2009 11:06:04 PM PST by Steelfish

Senate Lion Ted Kennedy Roars Once More for National Health Care As Sen. Ted Kennedy enters the twilight of his career battling brain cancer, he will make what could turn out to be his final push to get healthcare legislation across the finish line. By Stephen Clark FOXNews.com Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Senate Lion Ted Kennedy Roars Once More for National Health Care | Political News - FOXNews.com For more than four decades, Ted Kennedy has built a reputation as a "lion of the Senate" with all of his legislative accomplishments. But there's one noteworthy feather missing from his legislative cap: national health care.

In the twilight of his career and battling brain cancer, the Massachusetts Democrat now is making what could turn out to be his final push to get health care legislation across the finish line. "He obviously sees this as the crowning achievement of his career," said Tom Mann, a congressional scholar at Brookings Institution. "But there's a lot of uncertainty as to whether anything substantial will pass this year."

In the coming months, Kennedy's committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is expected to help craft legislation to expand health insurance coverage.

Joining Kennedy in his effort will be former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, whom President-elect Barack Obama nominated to be secretary of health and human services.

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KEYWORDS: 111th; bhohealthcare; healthcare; tedkennedy
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1 posted on 01/16/2009 11:06:05 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Oy!


2 posted on 01/16/2009 11:07:30 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Steelfish

Retire already


3 posted on 01/16/2009 11:08:01 PM PST by wastedyears (In Canada, Santa says "Ho Ho, eh?")
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To: Steelfish

F**k you, Ted. We don’t want your socialized healthcare. If socialized healthcare existed in this country, you would be dead long ago.

Actually, rich aristocrats like himself would probably get the best, private, treatment, while us peasants would be stuck with a government run bureaucrat-governed system.

Eat s**t, Teddy.


4 posted on 01/16/2009 11:08:56 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
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To: Steelfish

“But there’s a lot of uncertainty as to whether anything substantial will pass this year.”

No sh*t.


5 posted on 01/16/2009 11:09:06 PM PST by bergmeid (I refuse to be united. Obama can stuff it.)
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To: Steelfish

That wasn’t a roar, it was a fart!


6 posted on 01/16/2009 11:17:51 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (CIA Director!....So easy, a caveman can do it!)
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To: Steelfish

Good for him.

Disaster for the rest of us though...


7 posted on 01/16/2009 11:18:25 PM PST by Tzimisce (http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
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To: Steelfish

teddy, go away.


8 posted on 01/16/2009 11:18:38 PM PST by television is just wrong
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To: Steelfish

Lemme guess - - this fat drunken pig Ted Kennedy is willing to get in line with butchers, bakers, candlestick makers and the homeless for the very best brain surgeon the government can buy....

Right.


9 posted on 01/16/2009 11:23:23 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Steelfish

So will Caroline be the tart or airhead of the Senate?


10 posted on 01/16/2009 11:24:54 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Steelfish
ah, Ted. We hardly knew ye.


11 posted on 01/16/2009 11:28:47 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Barack Obama is a Disney character. His wife - a product of Marvel Comics.)
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12 posted on 01/16/2009 11:29:30 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: St. Louis Conservative

I like your tone. It is about time!


13 posted on 01/16/2009 11:37:24 PM PST by Torquay
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To: Steelfish

Poster Boy for what is wrong with our political system.

Just think of the tremendous amount of damage this one ultra-lefty has done to the country.

Without his push to change the immigration system we would have many millions fewer legals and illegals receiving taxpayer funded welfare, food stamps, health care and 10 or 20 million fewer to vote democrat.

Think about how many cities have been turned into cess pits because of his liberal policies and promotion of victimhood.

He has probably done more than any one other person to destroy America.

That is the Kennedy Legacy.


14 posted on 01/16/2009 11:39:37 PM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

My sentiments exactly. I just wish I knew some more four-letter words for the Champion of All Baby-Murderers.


15 posted on 01/16/2009 11:40:32 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
William von Dreele, Poet Laureate of National Review, once wrote a response to Teddy's Great Adventure, which ended with this couplet:

"If I'd gone off that bridge, I think,
I'd write these verses in the Clink."

(So would all of us.)

Teddy, you shameless (not safe for work), in the next life, you will meet Mary Jo, and she will ask you one thing: "Why?"

16 posted on 01/16/2009 11:58:39 PM PST by Chairman Fred (@mousiedung.commie)
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To: Steelfish

Socialized medicine for the “little people”
Pooled tumor boards from the entire East Coast for Senators.


17 posted on 01/17/2009 12:00:37 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: St. Louis Conservative

He wants bad health care for the population; while only a select few rate good health care.


18 posted on 01/17/2009 12:14:58 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Steelfish
The only reason I'm not hoping for a quick end of this collectivist pig is that he'd become a martyr for his liberal causes.
19 posted on 01/17/2009 12:17:17 AM PST by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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To: Steelfish

More like a juicy beer fart than a roar.


20 posted on 01/17/2009 12:43:15 AM PST by Force of Truth (Sarah Palin in 2012!!!!!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!)
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