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Kennedy absences raise concern for health vote
Teh Hill ^ | August 15, 2009 | . Taylor Rushing

Posted on 08/15/2009 1:57:14 PM PDT by libstripper

Sen. Edward Kennedy’s absence from two high-profile public events is raising worries that the country’s longest congressional champion for health reform may not be available to shepherd it through the Senate this fall.

Kennedy, 77, who has been battling a particularly deadly form of brain cancer since a diagnosis last May, did not attend a White House ceremony on Wednesday at which he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the country’s highest civilian honor.

He also did not attend a Friday funeral for his sister Eunice Shriver, who died on Tuesday.

The senator’s absences were particularly notable given that he has not been seen in public for several months, since throwing out the first pitch of the Boston Red Sox baseball season at Fenway Park in April.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 111th; euniceshriver; kennedy; kennedyfamily; obamacare; tedkennedy
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Looks like the Swimmer's time to stand before Saint Peter while standing on the trap door to the Other Place is fast approaching. Saint Peter needs to have a quick hand on the lever.
1 posted on 08/15/2009 1:57:16 PM PDT by libstripper
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Under the health care scheme he is helping cook up in Washington, only rich people like him will be able to get the kind of treatment he has enjoyed at the expense of the taxpayers.


2 posted on 08/15/2009 1:59:08 PM PDT by Trust but Verify ( I am Jim Thompson!)
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3 posted on 08/15/2009 2:00:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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Not to sound callous but, is there brain cancer that is not “particularly deadly”? Is the author adding a bit of dramatic flourish needlessly? It’s not enough that he is fighting brain cancer but he has to fight a “particularly deadly form” of brain cancer. As if just normal brain cancer wouldn’t be enough to prevent him from doing his job.


4 posted on 08/15/2009 2:02:22 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (YES WE CAN have a Depression.)
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I wish Republicans would offer amendments for swimming lessons and CPR lessons, and how to walk into fire stations and police stations and report an accident, if you happen to walk by such places after leaving the scene of an accident!


5 posted on 08/15/2009 2:02:46 PM PDT by Kansas58
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If this were a republican Senator they would be calling for his resignation due to the many absences.
6 posted on 08/15/2009 2:05:06 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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Looks like the Swimmer's time to stand before Saint Peter....is fast approaching.

Chances are that it will be a very short "chat".And one that the senior Senator from Chappaquidick will find *distinctly* unpleasant.

7 posted on 08/15/2009 2:07:06 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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They’re playing The Kennedy Card a lot sooner than I expected. I figured they’d pull it out of their sleeve about 2 weeks before the vote, at the earliest.


8 posted on 08/15/2009 2:08:46 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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Is the author adding a bit of dramatic flourish needlessly?

IIRC this kind of brain cancer has a worse prognosis than some of the others. I dont know whether "particularly deadly" is accurate though.

9 posted on 08/15/2009 2:10:04 PM PDT by freespirited (The Surgeon General has determined that Harry and Louise are dangerous to your health.)
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Does the term “Poetic Justice” fit in here?


10 posted on 08/15/2009 2:10:13 PM PDT by mortal19440
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There are a few that are at least treatable, if not curable, but a glioblastoma, the one he has, is the 100% fatal, evil black queen of them all. To learn it was a glioblasotma took some careful Pravada-like reading since each of the MSM articles about his condition buried the lede several paragraphs down.


11 posted on 08/15/2009 2:11:01 PM PDT by libstripper
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Good


12 posted on 08/15/2009 2:11:24 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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I predict that he will be brought to the Capitol in an ambulance and wheeled in on a gurney just so he can cast the decisive vote.

Sound far-fetched? Something very similar has happened before.

13 posted on 08/15/2009 2:13:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("A massive joke has indeed been played on the American people.")
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That’s not The Kennedy Card, that’s the whole friggin’ Kennedy Deck.


14 posted on 08/15/2009 2:18:02 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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Without being unkind.....

...is Ted Tnnedy the person who is pushing the ‘lets not waste our medical money on old age persons’...

and yet ......

what he is doing!!!

Is this the “do as I say not as I do” thingy!


15 posted on 08/15/2009 2:18:09 PM PDT by malia
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Well, he could lead by example on that end of life counseling, seeing as thats the plan he wants, no?


16 posted on 08/15/2009 2:24:03 PM PDT by wombtotomb
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So now they’re going to blame the failure of Obamacare on the Swimmer. Somehow that’s fitting. Wrong, but fitting.


17 posted on 08/15/2009 2:24:43 PM PDT by hsalaw
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Spend your final days in repentance and prayer instead of continuing to destroy the country which you and your family were so blessed by.


18 posted on 08/15/2009 2:24:58 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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Hell, they’ll stuff and mount him like a deer, and he’ll be “casting votes” for the next hundred years, and STILL winning his seat in his district.


19 posted on 08/15/2009 2:28:16 PM PDT by esoxmagnum
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Kennedy should has resigned from the Senate once he realized he was unable to properly represent the people who elected him. He is unable to attend the Senate while in session and clearly hear and understand all the viewpoints being expressed.

If his number one priority was seeing the tasks he was elected to do was carried out to the fullest extent possible, he would resign, but his priorities are different.

20 posted on 08/15/2009 2:30:35 PM PDT by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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