Byrd wants health bill renamed for Kennedy

The Hill ^ | August 26, 2009 | Michael O'Brien

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the only senator to have served longer than the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), mourned his friend Wednesday, saying his "heart and soul weeps."

Byrd said he hoped healthcare reform legislation in the Senate would be renamed in memoriam of Kennedy.

"I had hoped and prayed that this day would never come," Byrd said in a statement. "My heart and soul weeps at the lost of my best friend in the Senate, my beloved friend, Ted Kennedy."

Byrd's wistful statement focused on the work accomplished with Kennedy during decades together in the Senate, and called on the healthcare bill before Congress to be renamed in honor of Kennedy.

"In his honor and as a tribute to his commitment to his ideals, let us stop the shouting and name calling and have a civilized debate on health care reform which I hope, when legislation has been signed into law, will bear his name for his commitment to insuring the health of every American," Byrd said.

[SueRae]

They can call it anything they want. But it’s still will be as dead as its’ namesake.

[Uncle Ike]

Is there anybody here that didn’t see this coming??

[Dilbert San Diego]

Gee, given the mood of America, and anger at Democrats, and the fact that the Kennedys are not as beloved in middle America as the liberals think, it might be counter-productive to name this bill after Ted Kennedy.

[texas_mrs]

May it meet the same end.

[barbarianbabs]

Ya think the bogus camelot has finally POOFED itself out?

[wiggen]

is this for real? lets make it a personal insult then to vote against it? that the new game plan?

[demkicker]

There went brunch....

[exbrit]

I was thinking the bill will be in deep water, just like his car

[NavyCanDo]

Predicting that was like predicting the sun would come up.

[Carley]

Might as well call it SPLASH in honor of Mary Jo.

[maggief]

Kenndycare ... it’s dead in the water.

[Tenacious 1]

They want to call it the Alcoholic Car Ride off a Bridge Bill?

I am ok with it. The name justifies the results.

Consequently, God Bless Ted and his family. May God have mercy on his soul and be with the family.

[listenhillary]

We can sink copies of the Kennedy Health redistribution bill in cash for clunker cars in local lakes.

[Tenacious 1]

Kenndycare ... it’s dead in the water.

You win! That is both horrible and hilarious. You should be shamefully proud of that.

[DejaJude]

Sure, why not. We can then bury it too.

[cartervt2k]

Will it explicitly deny coverage to girls drowning in the back of oldsmobiles?

[maggief]

[EagleUSA]

http://www.tldm.org/News9/KennedyCooperatedWithKGB.htm

Speaks for itself.

[Dr. Sivana]

When they tried to rush this in before the August recess, they forfeited their right to a mild, civilized debate. The bad guys set the tone of it, and they (except Sen. Kennedy) have to live with it.

[bert]

Do the people of West Virginia really believe that a Byrd in the hand is worth two in the Bush?

[xcamel]

"The Dead Kennedy Healthcare Disaster" ???

[maxter]

"Is there anybody here that didn’t see this coming??

Nope.

[VRWCmember]

Rename the bill after Kennedy and the symbolism would be perfect: Kennedy died waiting for the bill to be passed just like hundreds of thousands of patients will die waiting for a government bureaucrat to decide whether or not they will get medical treatment under the bill’s provisions.

[listenhillary]

A Byrd in depends is a liability. IMO

[Anima Mundi]

Well then here come the buttons with Mary Jo on them and the words: “Ask ME about Kennedy care”

[Oratam]

"Win one for the Sipper."

[Hazwaste]

The Demoncrats are about to have another Paul Wellstone moment I think.

[GeronL]

Mayb e we can make it the Kennedy-Byrd Health Care Deform Act for the Children and Economic Stimulus Act of 2009

[Ev Reeman]

Renaming the bill won’t help. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. You can’t put lipstick on a pig and think it is anything more than just a pig with lipstick on either.

[GeronL]

Rush has been calling the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Act for months

[stephenjohnbanker]

“In the new book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, Dr. Kengor points to a recently discovered memo dated May 14, 1983 from Viktor Chebrikov, the head of the KGB to General Secretary Andropov. Chebrikov informed Andropov of Kennedy’s offer, made via Senator Tunney, to form a partnership to undermine Reagan foreign policy and the President’s re-election efforts. Kennedy proposed that Andropov would make a direct appeal to the American public via television interviews that would be set up in cooperation with the major networks. Kennedy’s plan never materialized due to the sudden death of Andropov and the ascendance of Mikhail Gorbachev.”

Good post!

[SubMareener]

Rush Limbaugh said this would happen!

[PubliusMM]

I don’t care what they call it as long as it fails to pass the House.

It’s time to take back the country.

[Anima Mundi]

And...would it not be only fitting that the Senators themselves subject themselves to the Senator-named health care plan...you know, just to sort of HONOR the late Senator? It would be very rude if they shunned it, don’t you think?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

They’ll ‘water down’ the bill in his honor, too?

[SMARTY]

THAT will be the last nail in the coffin. Someday the Loser Liberals will comprehend that the Kennedy Mo-Jo doesn't cut any ice any more!!!

[devane617]

They know better than to name this bill after Kennedy, and this may be a clue into the thinking of the dems on this issue. If they feel it will pass—no doubts—then they will name it for Ted, but if they see the light as the rest of us do, then it will NOT be named after Ted.

[KittenClaws]

Byrd wants health bill renamed for Kennedy.

People in hell want ice water.

[roses of sharon]

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I’m fine with that, so long as next time the gov’t wants to screw us they also call it “flipping us the Kennedy”.

[blueyon]

Did not Rush Limbaugh get BLAST by the left wing when he made a comment about the healthcare bill being named after Kennedy.........

[austinrepub]

Here’s my proposed name for the bill: Failing America Time and Again, Stupid Suckers Health Care “Reform” Bill.

Therefore we could call it the Senator Kennedy F.A.T.A.S.S. Bill in perpetuity.

Ha! How’s that for the Camelot legacy?

[70th Division]

As 5,000 Freepers hit the keys at the same time. LOL

[Outlaw Woman]

It’s unreal.......These people are so PREDICTABLE! This was being discussed on here last nite and look......not a day goes by before trying to get the bill renamed.

[primatreat]

This 95 year old rat bag wrote that letter. Right just like the one Teddy (face down) wrote the one last week. 10 to 1 that Byrd drops dead next week. O will really wee wee him self having lost 2 seats in a week. Lieberman is is dancing on a pin head also.

[Jackknife]

"I told you so."

[Rugged Individual]

That’s the poster for term limits, right there.

[slickfree]

OK FOLKS ... SHAME ON YOU! ... give "Teddy Bear" his
TITLE that replaces Camelot ... Teddy's Death Panel!

How dare you to not recognize that in DEATH this piece of fat pork
will yield Massachusetts what they desperately crave ... worms will benefit
and the Boston's "big dig" will have finally realized some true meaning
... life DOES EXIST in a meaningful manner in this liberal STATE.

I hope and pray that the smothering of dirt on his pale face yield some
similarity, and justice, to what he legislated on Mary Jo Kopeckne when
he failed to come to her aid, and let her drown, while "Teddy Bear"
slimed home to have his glass of wine in his plush surroundings of shame!

NOW ... GO CELEBRATE YOUR KENNEDY? ... you Massachusetts Libs?
You kill your young ladies ... and MURDER babies which is what you are MOST proud of!

[ArrogantBustard]

Byrdie may well be following Fat Drunk Ted to the grave ... I saw him a few months ago; he looked very old, very ill, and very drunk.