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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: Jeff Chandler

“Democrats: Always standing on somebody’s corpse.”

His.... and eventually ours.


241 posted on 08/26/2009 8:11:13 PM PDT by Favor Center (Targets up! Hold hard and favor center!)
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To: nutmeg

OMG! Barf is right!


242 posted on 08/26/2009 8:18:43 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: MaestroLC

What a crappy reason for passing that health care bill.

We can’t even get away from him when he’s dead.

Sheesh...


243 posted on 08/26/2009 8:48:04 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: MaestroLC

There are several reasons why this is stupid but Democrats seem intent on compounding their own misery and doubling down on it. Ted Kennedy is a highly polarizing figure. I personally see him as being no better than a war criminal for the way he led the charge to cut off funding which led to the fall of Vietnam and thousands interred in camps which set off a domino effect leaving millions to die a violent death in southeast asia. He dishonored the memory of his brothers, he has stood sentinel to the deaths of millions of babies, he has did more than any other Senator to single handily destroy the very things that make this country strong and unique.

If they want to name the horrid health bill after Kennedy it would indeed be fitting and it should die with the monster that he was. May God have mercy on his soul.


244 posted on 08/26/2009 10:10:28 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Bigger government is not reform.)
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To: MaestroLC

We must take advantage of every crisis. :D


245 posted on 08/26/2009 10:36:03 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
Nice try..................Go F yourself D C !!

My feelings too.

246 posted on 08/26/2009 10:39:51 PM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

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

Megaton dittos!


247 posted on 08/26/2009 11:01:41 PM PDT by Boucheau (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” Vladimir Lenin)
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To: stanz; Clemenza
Major barf alert. When JFK died, every goddamn boulevard, airport and meeting hall in NJ was re-named after him. Why don’t they re-name the Chappaquiddick bridge after him.

Excellent point, stanz! Oh, and did you notice the Triborough Bridge in NYC is now the Robert F. Kennedy bridge?

BARF... enough already with the criminal Kennedy clan!

248 posted on 08/26/2009 11:49:53 PM PDT by nutmeg (Obamunism is destroying America)
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To: MaestroLC

Didn’t he kill enough people while he lived? Now we want to credit him with killing more through Government limited health care, while he is dead?


249 posted on 08/26/2009 11:51:08 PM PDT by rbbeachkid (The ONLY ones able to fix the economy - Small Business Owners!)
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
Let's call it Kopechne Care instead.

Hey, far be it from conservatives to object if the dems want to do something as stupid as inextricably entwine their plan's ignominious hidden provisions to that man & his ignominious not-so-well-hidden past in the public's mind.

The town hall protest signs can pretty well write themselves now, no?

I mean really, if Americans weren't thrilled with the idea of the Obamacare's hidden provisions to pull the plug on granny, do they really think the public will actually go for drowning her instead?

America to Dems: You idiotic proponents of the new "Chappaquiddick Option" can take a long drive off a short bridge, yourselves, thank you very much.

250 posted on 08/27/2009 7:49:56 AM PDT by leilani
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To: edcoil

kennedycare

teddycare

it’s like they planned it...

but it still won’t work...

even 100,000 rigged astroturfed town halls

won’t work...

even alinsky tactics have not worked...

even vandalizing and blaming the mean spirited RIGHT when they did the vandalizing

won’t work


251 posted on 08/27/2009 7:51:28 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: MaestroLC
zer0bamacare is the antithesis of the kind of excellent Health care that ‘The Swimmer’ received.

we need to push the pro zer0bamacare’s nose into this craptacular fact at every opportunity.

252 posted on 08/27/2009 8:22:53 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: No Socialist

There were reports he didn’t want to die right now. Maybe someone pulled the plug. You know how ghoulish the Dhimmis are. If they thought it would win them a political battle, they’d kill anyone. They’ve become the party of “the ends justify the means.” They are clearly on the road to totalitarianism.


253 posted on 08/27/2009 8:38:00 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: leilani
"The town hall protest signs can pretty well write themselves now, no?"

I was thinking what a great sign for the Washington 9/12 protest would be a life size copy of that picture of Fat Teddy (see post #97) with "No To Teddy Health" scrawled across his ample abdomen.

254 posted on 08/27/2009 9:42:19 AM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (E)
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American

255 posted on 08/27/2009 10:04:05 AM PDT by leilani
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To: leilani
Wow!

Great work!

I'm constantly amazed at the creativity, talent and speed of you graphics geniuses here on FR.

256 posted on 08/27/2009 10:35:16 AM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (E)
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To: Vaquero

We need to DEMAND to know what “Mr. Health Care Reform is the Cause of My Life” spent on HIS OWN battle with the Grim Reaper.

How much did HE spend in his final months of life? If health care reform is passed, we will ALL get the same level of medical care as this departed HYPOCRITE?

Naming a health care bill after the POSTER CHILD for Excessive Medical Costs in the Final Months of Life would be typical of these brain dead Democrats.


257 posted on 08/27/2009 11:20:34 AM PDT by justkate
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To: MaestroLC; Jeff Head

I refuse to say anything bad about Sen. Kennedy until the traditional Orthodox Christian 40-day mourning period is over. May his memory be eternal!

However, the same does NOT go for Pelosi and obama.

They must NOT be allowed to use Kennedy’s death, or any other excuse, to shut up the growing majority of Americans who realize that obama “health care” means draconian rationing of care for seniors, very young children, the mentally and physically challenged, and perhaps others. They must not use it as an excuse to stop the actions from now and at least through the month of September, in which Americans who are justifiably angry and scared about obama/Pelosi “health care” loudly and forcefully voice their informed (better informed than Congress) defense of their very lives, in defiance of obama’s ACORN thugs and union goons.

Pelosi/obama also intends to use Kennedy’s death to spur their drive for open borders! We all can see their evil plan for engineering the demography of America—replace the seniors and other “inconvenient” Americans with polyglot hordes of Third-World immigrants, who will owe their place in what used to be our country to what is becoming the North American National Socialist (formerly Democratic) Party!

Say NO to demographic engineering and social Darwinism!!! ON TO VICTORY!!!!


258 posted on 08/27/2009 5:47:31 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Frank_2001

If JFK were alive today, he (a very old SENIOR, of course), would be obama’s worst enemy!!!!


259 posted on 08/27/2009 5:49:11 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: MaestroLC; All

Health Care legislation has died with the Senator.


260 posted on 08/27/2009 11:13:43 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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