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Kennedy’s Death Spurs Calls to Pass Health Legislation
The Wall Street Journal ^ | August 26, 2009 | By Jake Sherman

Posted on 08/26/2009 8:37:14 AM PDT by MaestroLC

Edited on 08/26/2009 8:39:27 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

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To: stephenjohnbanker
Nice try..................Go F yourself D C !!

They had already started a whisper campaign before Kennedy died about naming it after him in order to pass it. They were telling the press to start talking about it on 'news' shows according to one pundit on Fox News this morning.

I agree. They can shove it! I don't care who they name it after I DON'T WANT IT!

Obama & team have tried everything to get traction on this crap and nothing has worked. Naming it after Kennedy is only going to tick off more people. The Kennedy's have always been seen by beltway & elites as royalty. To the rest of us they were elite trash.

161 posted on 08/26/2009 9:43:22 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: reagandemocrat

BUZZARDS


162 posted on 08/26/2009 9:46:28 AM PDT by Quickgun (As a former fetus, I'm opposed to abortion)
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To: edcoil

This is one of many reasons why claims of Ted Kennedy having been a great man can’t be allowed to slide by.

He wasn’t, and that should be said publicly.


163 posted on 08/26/2009 9:46:29 AM PDT by TheFourthMagi
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To: N. Theknow

No -— rename it “Kopechne Care.”


164 posted on 08/26/2009 9:49:34 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Tellin' it like it is.)
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To: MaestroLC

So, let’s see...Kennedy dies despite his superb health plan and now that’s a rationale for pushing subprime health care on the rest of us???


165 posted on 08/26/2009 9:50:10 AM PDT by TheThinker
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To: MaestroLC

166 posted on 08/26/2009 9:51:00 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: kcvl

“To the rest of us they were elite trash.”

Yep, flyover country gave him the Bronx cheer.


167 posted on 08/26/2009 9:51:13 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: MaestroLC

It won’t pass. The seniors are killing it.


168 posted on 08/26/2009 9:52:24 AM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: BenLurkin

You are spot on, Ben. An M.I.T. scientist showed the same thing right after it happened.


169 posted on 08/26/2009 9:52:25 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: MaestroLC

Ghouls.


170 posted on 08/26/2009 9:54:43 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: TheFourthMagi
This is one of many reasons why claims of Ted Kennedy having been a great man can’t be allowed to slide by.

When Fox News was listing all the legislation this morning that Kennedy had his name attached to I understand why I despise him (even more now)! Talk about socialist crap with the help of Ted's 'good friends' in the Republican party like Orrin Hatch, George Bush, et al! That's what you call bipartisan socialism and I'm SICK OF IT!

171 posted on 08/26/2009 9:58:51 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: BP2

I will offer this bit on advice (I heard it in the past and it is appropriate here).

Don’t follow a diet based on someone who was rumored to have died while obese (Atkins).

Don’t follow an exercise plan from someone who was suspected to have of died of a heart attack (Arthur Lydiard).

And don’t listen to a dead man about the future our nation’s health care system. Ted Kennedy will NEVER have to live under this system. Same for the other old farts in the Legislature. Step aside.

If it is fair enough to tell men that they should have no voice in abortion because they will never “have one”, then so goes the argument for the elder statemens to impose socialized medicine on this Nation.


172 posted on 08/26/2009 10:00:51 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ted Kennedy, you are NO J.F.K. Wrong on abortion. Wrong on taxes.)
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To: MaestroLC

Who saw this coming.


173 posted on 08/26/2009 10:03:28 AM PDT by Ptarmigan (God Hates Bunnies. God Loves Ptarmigans)
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To: cartervt2k
So does that mean we can invoke all the dead victims of socialized health care in our opposition?


174 posted on 08/26/2009 10:05:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ted Kennedy, you are NO J.F.K. Wrong on abortion. Wrong on taxes.)
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To: MaestroLC

Remember the Wellstone funeral up in Minnesota?

Kennedy’s funeral will make that look like a paupers grave ceremony compared to what is coming. This will be used and twisted and wrung-out for every little possible advantage it can be pimped for. I just hope the American people see and recognize it for what it will really be,

I am not even going to turn on the flat screen tonight, all the ass kissing that will be going on towards this human bobber will just leave me wanting to throw stuff at the screen.


175 posted on 08/26/2009 10:07:04 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: DogBarkTree

Nevertheless, re: Sen. Orca, where was Greenpeace?


176 posted on 08/26/2009 10:08:13 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: MaestroLC

“Kennedy’s Death Spurs Calls to Pass Health Legislation”

Shouldn’t they name a government mandated AA program for him?


177 posted on 08/26/2009 10:10:57 AM PDT by Grunthor (Lord, let me take my faith as seriously as muslims take theirs.)
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To: Abathar

The question IS whether Big Media will again turn over network tv time for hours to the DNC to campaign.

The question IS whether the DNC will again PROHIBIT prominent Republicans from attending the “memorial” on partisan grounds.

The question IS will the public put up with this crap again.


178 posted on 08/26/2009 10:14:22 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ted Kennedy, you are NO J.F.K. Wrong on abortion. Wrong on taxes.)
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To: edcoil
Democrat Vultures plotting after Kennedy's death
179 posted on 08/26/2009 10:15:06 AM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: Lazamataz
How about ABUSE,

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Health Care to die for. Brought to you by the party of Death, Decmocrats the party that just doesn't give a sh** if you live or die!

180 posted on 08/26/2009 10:15:07 AM PDT by calex59
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