Posted on 09/09/2009 3:42:32 PM PDT by mdittmar
There will be no shortage of Kennedys this evening at President Barack Obama’s address on health care to a joint session of Congress.
Vicki Kennedy, widow of the late Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy, is a guest of First Lady Michelle Obama.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will host the late senator’s children, including Rhode Island Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy, Ted Kennedy Jr., and Kara Kennedy and her two children.
The notable presence of Kennedy family members suggests the president will give a nod to the late senator in his speech this evening. Kennedy devoted much of his nearly five decade long Senate career to health care reform, and his months-long absence from the chamber this year before his death last month was often cited as a reason why bipartisan consensus has been so hard to find.
On Capitol Hill today, it was announced today that Sen. Tom Harkin will take over Kennedy’s old post as chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, positioning the Iowa Democrat as a key player on the issue in the months ahead.
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Watching these Obama speeches are like someone watching the same porno movie over and over again hoping to finally pick out that message from Jesus.
Be one of those kids without facial injuries or an amputation.
I hope this BS hype has lower viewers than ever!
ROTFLMAO
Everytime O-hole is on, its like one of those bad cable channels that reruns crappy sitcoms at 3am that no one watched and ran for 6 episodes.
Obama Healthcare Drinking Game:
Take a drink every time he says “Kennedy”.
If we all have to take a drink everytime he says Kennedy, I’ll be in the ER with alcohol poisoning. Actually then it it would be like the “end up like Teddy” game.
come to think of it, thank god they didnt cremate TK, it would have been like a fireball, the mans blood was probably 97% proof.
Time for the P.T. Barnum “dead whale on a flatcar” act.
Well, the GOP needs to detail the failure of each of ole Teddy’s health care reforms. HMOs are a mess, medicare is a mess and going bankrupt, etc, etc.
Yeah exactly he had 50 years to fix healthcare, did he, NOPE.
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