Kennedy’s Death Spurs Calls to Pass Health Legislation

The Wall Street Journal ^ | August 26, 2009 | By Jake Sherman

[MaestroLC]

The death of Sen. Edward Kennedy quickly became a rallying cry for Congress to pass health care overhaul legislation.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

[MaestroLC]

Byrd wants health bill renamed for Kennedy

(quote) "In his honor and as a tribute to his commitment to his ideals, let us stop the shouting and name calling and have a civilized debate on health care reform which I hope, when legislation has been signed into law, will bear his name for his commitment to insuring the health of every American," Byrd said.

[edcoil]

Dem’s don’t even allow the body to get cold before they want political advantage.

[Jeff Chandler]

Democrats: Always standing on somebody’s corpse.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Nice try..................Go F yourself D C !!

[GreyFriar]

Pelosi was faster off the mark in calling for this than I expected. She did it while the body was still warm.

[taxtruth]

Nobody wants deathcare.

[Lazamataz]

I propose we name the Obamanation Health Care Bill for Messr. Kennedy. My offerings:

Bridge to Health Care.
Swimming In Health.
Life Preserver Bill.

Or my FAVORITE:

S enior
P rotection
L ife
A ssurance
S upplemental
H ealth

S.P.L.A.S.H. for short.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

That didn’t take long.

Can only hope that the health care bill dies as well.

[Marty62]

Nice try..................Go F yourself D C !!
.......
Bares repeating!!!!

[mojitojoe]

Health care is dead. May it rest in hell with Splash.

[Catsrus]

Oh what a huge surprise that the libs would use his death to urge passing of this anti-American bill. I’m shocked, just shocked!

[Hatheos]

Gee, didn’t see this coming. What a bunch of political vultures.

[MNDude]

arrgh! I’m stuck at the airport and all the TV’s are on CNN. You can’t believe how many times CNN has talked about how important passing this health bill was to Kennedy. Do airports in red-states play FoxNews, are is it CNN everywhere?

[livius]

Yeah, I was pretty impressed, too. Of course, we all knew it was coming.

But what makes them think Kennedy was popular with anybody except the brain-dead voters of MA and the DC political circuit? That’s not enough to get them very far.

[sickoflibs]

MSNBC question of the day. Is his departing generating enough wind to get the sunken Public plan health reform sailing again.

Pelosi says ‘YES’. But she is NUTS God bless her (since she will be the end of Obama.)

[Gene Eric]

Not feeling the motivation.

[Kansas58]

He needs to add, “Except for Americans traped in cars, and under water”!

[reagandemocrat]

Morbid Ghouls.

[DogBarkTree]

Only if it will bring back Mary Jo. The Orca can stay dead.

[RightOnline]

Oh here we go..............stop before I wretch.