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Byrd Brain Idea
Politico ^ | August 26, 2009 | Ben Smith

Posted on 08/26/2009 8:51:18 AM PDT by Ahithophel

Ailing Senator Robert Byrd, one of only two to have served longer than Kennedy, suggests in an emotional statement renaming the pending health care legislation for the late Massachusetts Senator

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Yet another reason to vote against it.
1 posted on 08/26/2009 8:51:18 AM PDT by Ahithophel
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To: Ahithophel

This would increase Rush’s Accuracy rating. He predicted this earlier this year.

No one on our side knows the Libs better than Rush.


2 posted on 08/26/2009 8:53:40 AM PDT by Max_850
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To: Ahithophel

In honor of Ted Kennedy, liver transplants for alcoholics will not be free in the government option.


3 posted on 08/26/2009 8:54:26 AM PDT by Londo Molari
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To: Ahithophel
ObamaCare Socialized Medicine has now become:

Health care for
All (including Aliens)
Regardless of
Deficits

White
House
Inspired
Senator Ted
Kennedy Memorial
Insurance
Enrollment
Scheme

4 posted on 08/26/2009 8:56:41 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $1 million for Sarah Palin if she runs; What will you do?)
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To: Ahithophel

Instead of putting these people on pedestals we should be knocking them off!


5 posted on 08/26/2009 8:57:27 AM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: Ahithophel

kopechne

K - Kennedy
O - Overall
P - Personal
E - Emergency
C - Care of
H - Health
N - Now
E - Enshrined.......................


6 posted on 08/26/2009 9:01:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples' money...M. Thatcher)
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To: unixfox

YEP...Kennedy and Byrd epitomize what is WRONG with politicians.....they think they are annointed....TERM LIMITS should be our CALL!!!


7 posted on 08/26/2009 9:02:34 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Tell everyone, DEMS are the RACISTS...they created the KKK and Jim Crow Laws...to start)
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To: unixfox

A better idea would be to rename anything signed by Barry O after Mary Jo Kopechne. That way she will always be remembered for her tragic death.


8 posted on 08/26/2009 9:02:34 AM PDT by Comparative Advantage
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To: Ahithophel

Just wait until the DemocRats ‘Give America The Byrd bill’.


9 posted on 08/26/2009 9:05:41 AM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: Ahithophel

Great. The Klansman giving over to the murderer...what a party...


10 posted on 08/26/2009 9:05:44 AM PDT by jessduntno (Privatization + Inter-State Sales + Individual Policies + Tort Reform = Healthcare Reform)
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To: Ahithophel

I think it is a splendid idea!

Obamacare would leave the entire country drowning in debt and bureaucracy, and many people would needlessly die from lack of care.


11 posted on 08/26/2009 9:07:26 AM PDT by Kandy Atz ("Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want for bread.")
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To: Ahithophel

KennedyCare -- Dead in the Water


12 posted on 08/26/2009 9:14:01 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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To: Ahithophel

That’ll work.

Let’s change the name and it will magically hide the fact that it will turn us into Gordon Brown’s UK medical hell AND bankrupt us.

I actually think its a great idea. When it doesn’t pass, it’ll be a fitting tribute to a guy who really only cared about himself, and lied like hell to pass some of the most damaging legislation in American history.


13 posted on 08/26/2009 9:32:06 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Ahithophel

They are going to try to pull out every stop they can but it won’t work this time!


14 posted on 08/26/2009 9:35:44 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Ahithophel

If passed, the Kennedycare bill would be the only thing in West Virginia NOT named after Byrd.


15 posted on 08/26/2009 9:36:03 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Ahithophel

My take.....

The old man is naming a scape goat. He is taking away the terrible stigma from Obama Care and declaring it Kennedy Care.

The stain on the living President is thus transferred to a dead man.


16 posted on 08/26/2009 9:40:31 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khitab)
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To: bert

Yes...but, if all goes well, an ineffective stain-remover.


17 posted on 08/26/2009 5:36:48 PM PDT by lifewriter
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To: Max_850
Democrat Vultures plotting after Kennedy's death
18 posted on 08/26/2009 5:39:13 PM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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