The Honorable Sir Rhosis of Liver, Order of the Bath, Commander of the S.S. Oldsmobile, Prince of Pork
Posted on 03/07/2009 5:41:55 AM PST by Zakeet
Frustrated twice before on health-care reform, this may finally be Ted Kennedy's moment
The accolades keep rolling in—honorary knighthood, an evening of tribute at the Kennedy Center—and they have the feeling of a grand farewell. Except Sen. Ted Kennedy isn't going anywhere, as he and his aides like to remind everyone. "The cancer is in its cage," he tells his Senate colleagues. Ralph Neas, executive director of the National Coalition on Health Care, was pleased when, on a recent visit to the office of Kennedy's top health-care reform aide, a call came in from the senator asking for staff to get things done, "like he always does." Kennedy, 77, is battling brain cancer, but he is also burning up the phone lines, making sure he does everything to seize the moment for the issue that has been at the core of his legislative agenda for the last 30 years.
He's been actively working on it for more than a year, long before the election that gave him a president who wants to fulfill the dream, and well before May, when he became ill. Brought together by Kennedy staffers, lobbyists with an interest in health-care reform have been secretly meeting as a group in a Senate office building. They dubbed themselves the "workhorses" and include some who helped derail Hillary Clinton's reform effort 15 years ago. Determined to get to the finish line this time, Kennedy is squeezing every bit of influence he can out of his life, and the limited time he has left. For Neas, a longtime Kennedy ally and a Notre Dame graduate who remembers the phrase "Win one for the gipper," it's "Win one for Teddy."
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The Honorable Sir Rhosis of Liver, Order of the Bath, Commander of the S.S. Oldsmobile, Prince of Pork
I heard last night, and this is the truth....
That Kennedy has a Belgian Water Dog named “Splash”
Too funny!
Ted: “Thank you, Your Majesty. Like I always say, once a Queen, always Queen, but once a (k)night is not enough.”
And something he and his family will NEVER, EVER, EVER use.
A simple phone call that night in 1969 could have saved her life.
But Lord Kennedy could not be botherd.
He was seen in a hotel reading a newspaper while Mary joe was under water.
Oh well.
Such are the rewards laboring in a lifetime of attempted legislative enslavement of his fellow Americans. Just where the hay does this all come from?!!!
Of course. It's brain cancer. There's a dearth of material for it to attack.
Gee, Rush was right again. He seems to be more accurate and prophetic than the news media.
Amazing
I wonder how long he had to stand in line to get his diagnosis then surgery?
Along with Obama's Birth Certificate, both of which will eventually escape! IMHO.
Under his own socialized medical plan, someone who had Fat Ted's type of brain cancer at his age would have at most been given palliative treat to relieve his pain while he died. Being a permanent member of the House of Lords has its advantages.
I so wish ted would take eleanor for a long ride off of a short bridge...
Yes, Rush is right again. They will try to get Americans to sacrifice decent healthcare for a sympathy vote. But this is bigger than any one man! They want to destroy the best healthcare system in the world.
Talked to a woman at the hospital who flew here from England because she couldn't get a mammogram there. Mom and sister both had breast cancer but her ultrasound didn't show anything so she COULD NOT get a mammogram there.
Where will we go when they've finally succeeded in downgrading our healthcare system to the level of other socialist countries?
WHERE WILL WE GO?
He couldn't risk it. He would have been arrested for DWI. He had to wait until morning when is blood alcohol level went down.
Besides, he was too important. She was just one of the little people.
Of course, our Democrat overlords will never have to wait in line at the government health clinic with the rest of us. Socialized medicine is for the little people.
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945)
Savage is right: Liberalism is a mental disorder Where does the irrational love for people like Ted Kennedy come from? Objectively, he has done nothing positive.
Cutty Sark's Lifetime Achievement Award, Honorary Presidency of the Bloated Mummies, the Bill Clinton Prize for Philandery ...
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