Posted on 08/27/2009 4:55:54 AM PDT by GoldStandard
WASHINGTON - Ted Kennedy often said his biggest political mistake was turning down a health care deal with Richard Nixon, and Kennedy's old lament had Democrats yesterday thinking again about compromise on reform.
Kennedy said he turned down the universal health coverage plan offered by the Republican President in the early 1970s because it wasn't everything he wanted it to be. He later realized it was a missed opportunity to make major progress toward his goal.
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Silly Teddy let partisan politics interfere with the progressive goal of an all-powerful totalitarian state and didn’t work with Nixon to enslave us all further. What a missed opportunity...
He died of a broken heart because his failure was apparent. He just couldn’t take defeat
Let’s hope and pray that it stays that way.
He was a murderer. He was a socialist. He was an anti-American.
It was unfinished because the overwhelming majority of Americans do not want it.
We'll find very few, if any, who will change their minds simply because Kennedy died.
Nothing stopped him from living his “dream”. When his end came, he used every means to live which he would have denied the rest of us.
Good riddance.
I agree that it was: the final nail in America’s coffin.
L:et it remain unfinished!
L;et = Let
PS The 1965 Immigration act did by far the most damage to this country.
Let it remain unfinished. It sucks.
Ted Kennedy had been working on “fixing” our health care since 1978.
All the democrats agree with him, that our system has been broken since the 70s.
So when people hear the Democrats saying the system is broken today, they should realise the democrats have been saying this for THREE DECADES. No sane person thinks their health care has been broken for the last 30 years.
We are supposed to go along with people who are saying that health care costs have been spiralling out of control for 30 years (even though we can all still afford it), that health insurance companies have been stealing from us (even though the industry has almost completely changed over the years), that doctors are removing limbs for profit (even though we all still seem to have ours).
Remember that in 1978, the Democrats held congress and the white house. They could do whatever they wanted. Kennedy actually passed a bill he said would fix everything. How did that work out?
Killing his liver was uncompleted also.
I thought a bottle of scotch was his unfinished work.
Fixed, like the cat.
Unfinished???
It’s a pattern. He was having breakfast at a hotel while a poor girl was rotting under the water, 10 hours later.
Unfinished??? Yes. I would agree.
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