Posted on 08/26/2009 11:54:08 AM PDT by pabianice
"This is the cause of my life - new hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American - north, south, east, west, young, old - will have decent quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege."
To organized labor types, a right is a concession by the other side. A benefit.
Hey Bob,
Keep your laws off my BODY!
Well, health care sure is a right! I have a right to food and clothes and a house and a new car, too.
The average citizen is subject to
* all the flaws of socialized health care,
* seriously ill are encouraged to "die and get out of the way" in the words of a prominent Democrat,
while the ruling class, their rich and influential friends will, like Ted Kennedy,
* be averse to giving up -- no expense is too much to provide them with the best health care available.
Yes sir! That's it!
Ted Kennedy Memorial Healthcare
Bill and Teds excellent adventure!
Michael Jackson was honored as well by this Legislature. ........................... NEVER IN MY LIFETIME HAVE I EVER WITNESS A CONGRESS LIKE THIS ONE. It is true the lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Ah, the Democrats’ “Wellstone” Syndrome surfaces.
What foundamental rights?Health,wealth,job,fooding,housing,intelligence,hollydays,sunshine,no global warming....But no duties? Typically liberal!
What kind of Health cares? What about the right to GOOD and appropriate health cares?
ChappaquiddickCare! Same old garbage as ObamaCare.
Americans will be calling it the Capaquidick plan.
If your in a hospital and you hear someone in the ER refer to a patient as an “OB”, that would be triage code for “Forget it, she’s a gonner”.
Yes, by all means...
Name this bill after a man who clung to his PRIVATE health care to his dying day.
Not that I doubt for one moment that Ted will be allowed to be buried in Arlington (which I just heard on the news) my review of requirements suggest he is NOT qualified
The closest I can find is this:
"Any former member of the Armed Forces who served on active duty (other than for training) AND who held any of the following positions:
* An elective office of the U.S. Government (such as a term in Congress).
As far as I know, Kennedy served in active duty in the military, so anyone know how one gets a waiver?
Bob Fertik
Bob Fertik is the president of Democrats.com and co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org
On ABC's This Week with George Stephanopolous, the host asked President-Elect Obama about the number one-ranked question from Democratic activist Bob Fertik: "Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor - ideally Patrick Fitzgerald - to independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping?" Obama's answer was far from definitive - he said he was still "evaluating" the question, but was more inclined to "look forward as opposed to looking backwards." He did suggest that Attorney General designee Eric Holder would have some say in potential prosecutions.
Their faulty reasoning is easy to put to flight if we just ask the right questions and keep the pressure on.
Everyone who didn't see this coming, the using of the Whales death to push health care, raise their hand!
One other point, ask them why the government wasn't making health care decisions for Kennedy in his last days.
Exactly right - and what's left after they prevent you from various freedoms, are called privileges. So, if you think it through, the only way to justify this process is if ALL freedoms are first denied, and then SOME aspects of them are allowed as privileges.
The word "privilege" is the most devious of all legalisms, for even the largest and most munificent allowance of them still indicates the underlying loss of all true freedom. If only people could understand that...
...but they don't, they don't wanna, and they ain't gonna. Compared to the federal government, P.T. Barnum was a piker.
Yup, name it Ted and kill it off!
I wonder if McCain is going to support the bill since it is named after his buddy.
This is going to be Wellstone II!
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