Why the Democrats Should Call It ‘KennedyCare’
Politicizing Senator Kennedy’s death by renaming the sinking health care bill in his honor seems to be an excellent way to memorialize the man, and I hope the Democrats do just that. The health care legislation, now heavy with miseries like the public option, Medicare cuts for the elderly, and invasive information gathering on American citizens, will either be:
1) Eviscerated to appease moderates, which will make the bill simply about saving President Obama’s bacon — something that Senator Kennedy would do if still alive.
2) Pushed through the House and Senate with its current language to satisfy the statist progressive impulse which certainly drove Teddy Kennedy. Only problem? Because of a law that Senator Kennedy made specifically to benefit Democrats in Massachusetts, there won’t be a 60th senator to overcome filibusters in the Senate because a quick Democrat fill-in won’t be appointed. There has to be a special election. If the Democrats still want to pass this turd of a law, they’ll have to fool with rules to do it. How fitting!
Or the legislation might not pass at all, and this newly named Kennedy bill will stand as a monument to the free-market desires of the American people. It will also signal an end of the advancement of the state. That is, if it fails.
All in all, no matter how this legislation ends up in terms of content or fate, it’s a towering pile of doo-doo and it will be decided in the Senate. Why not name it for Senator Kennedy? Either way, pass or fail, the bill symbolizes everything that Senator Kennedy represented.
It should also be noted that Senator Kennedy, like all fabulously wealthy people, had nothing to gain or lose with this legislation. This law, should it pass, will be for the great unwashed masses subjected to government-run health care because their businesses will save money with the public option. Senators, as the Democrats voted in committee, will still get their own special plan.
Senator Kennedy would not have been beholden to his namesake legislation. He would still have gone to the best hospitals for care — maybe on some Caribbean island at some point as doctors and innovative health care providers look for cheaper, less regulated ways to deliver stellar care. No one likes to be sick and in the hospital now. It would be abominably insulting for a bigwig to be a number in a line in a hallway in a crumbling hospital with an imported doctor, waiting for eight hours to eight days. A rich person can go to prison for that kind of care today. Under KennedyCare, he would get on a private jet and go find the care he’s accustomed to receiving.
Melissa,
I have to disagree with you. I think Kennedy Care is a super name.
Of course, I don’t think it’s the only name with a nice ring to it.
I could also go for Chappaquiddick Care or even Kopechne Care, both having the added memorability of alliteration.
Surely, most Democrats would like to consider all three, considering how pro-choice they all are.
Do people of America not understand the loss of personal freedom this bill will insist upon?I think the dems (marxist)will do whatever they deem necessary to get this bill passed.Then change it to suit themselves.I too,fear for America. BO is so full of deceit and manipulation ha may ruin this country before anyone notices.Which is his goal.Goverment is the problem,not the solution.(Reagan was right!) I cant stomach much more propaganda from this man,or his obviously RACIST minions.God help us all.
Do people of America not understand the loss of personal freedom this bill will insist upon?I think the dems (marxist)will do whatever they deem necessary to get this bill passed.Then change it to suit themselves.I too,fear for America. BO is so full of deceit and manipulation he may ruin this country before anyone notices.Which is his goal.Goverment is the problem,not the solution.(Reagan was right!) I cant stomach much more propaganda from this man,or his obviously RACIST minions.God help us all.
Sorry for the double post folks.
Very small story-
2006 was a tough year.
Our small business needed to be closed but low and behold the accountant said the IRS owed me a small refund.
I had called the VA hospital and told them that as soon as I recieved my tax refund I would send them the $226.00 dollars I owed for my deductible medical premiums.
My wife insisted I send the money before I got my tax refund-
So OK lady-
I sent it.
My little refund from the IRS never came-
They took my check and over paid my deductible.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
With this new bill they can take your tax refunds,
savings account, or checking account monies to pay your deductible/premiums.
If you owe them $4,000 dollars and only have $3,000 dollars,
better thank God if you have an overdraft.
Bouncing a withdrawal to the IRS would make you look bad in a court of law.
The people-haters don’t want health care for those who cannot afford it. Selfishness prevails.
Besides, if there are mistakes in the Plan, legislation CAN be changed later. That’s the American way, shoot first, questions later. Not that I endorse it. I prefer ‘get it right the first time’.
I too think Chappaquiddick-Care or Kopechne-Care would be more appropriate.
And now we all get to watch the spectacle of the so-called MSM push Americans to “win one
for Ol Teddy” because it was “his life’s cause” as if most of us give a damn about him or his
failed Liberal ideas.
This is not about the past.
Obama needs to own this travesty. The present and future are what matter now.
KennedyCare is a great name. Democrats really should do it and Republicans should dare/encourage them to do it.
Just imagine:
If it is successfully passed, it will remind people the hypocrisy of the elitist liberals who, like Ted Kennedy, want the best care money be damned while painkillers are good enough for the little people. Every time someone pops a painkiller, he’ll think of Kennedy and Democrats.
When it implodes and forces mothers to give birth in hallways and elevators or a man to have his appendix taken out twice like in the Great Britain, they forever have a name they can thank for such a splendid result.
It’s a name that keeps on giving.
Hear ye! Hear ye! I was a Kennedy named Ted
From a warm heart, hardly enough can be said
With Laughing and screaming girls, I made my bed
And with evil Andropov, A treasonous path I tread
With Irish whiskey, my word seemed slightly inbred
But every waitress and barmaid, remembers ol’ Ted
Those feminine wills could not resist my conquest
My hearty loins of iron, always stood to the test
Resistance is futile, the Kennedy charm is legend
We have Obama’s Health Care Bill about to descend
The bill could sink like my car at ol’ Chappaquidick
And drown Commander Wee Wee like that Kopechne Chick
So add the name of Ted Kennedy to the bill’s verse
That will make those evil Republicans do a reverse
Obama, for saving your stupid bill, I need no thanks
Just pardon Kennedy’s for rape, and open drunk tanks
The story of Mary Jo is extraordinarily fitting for the events of this day. The symbolism and timing of Ted Kennedy’s death and the juxtaposition of the Obamacare legislation is a story within a story.
Mary Jo was the original martyr upon the altar of liberalism. Sent to her untimely death at the bottom of a river, under a bridge, Ms. Kopechne was the shoulders Teddy stood on to reach the mouthful of life-preserving air that enabled him to launch a decades long Senate career. With that singular act, Mary Jo, through her selfless service, symbolically demonstrated the remarkable arrogance and complete disregard for life that encapsulates the vapid amorality of the liberal agenda. She, among other victims, are drowned and oppressed again and again, decade after decade, and career after career–as liberal politicians continually subjugate people for their own gain. Mary Jo’s fateful ride in the Oldsmobubble in Chappaquiddick, keenly symbolizes the repeated behavior of self-imposed subjugation that our societies “victims” continue to show–they keep hopping in the Olds, when they should know the outcome.
Today, Kennedy’s name is being invoked into the Obamacare issue. The Obamacare Oldsmobubble is pulling out of the driveway of the cottage in Chappaquiddick. Barack Obama is at the wheel. In the car with him are congressional Democrats–all of them yukking it up. Obama has ulterior motives for his passengers, just as Teddy did with Mary Jo. The Dems see Obama probably as Mary Jo saw Teddy that night–handsome, talented, bright, promising, dangerous, enticing.
The Oldsmobubble is nearing the bridge, its narrow, its dark, and eerie. The car hits the bridge, careens over the side and hits the water, floating for a quick second before nosediving for the bottom. Lives, both physical and political flash before Obama’s and his passengers eyes–the car rapidly fills with water. Every man for himself. Obama, like Teddy, luckily escapes, swims to the surface, climbs out and heads back to the cottage, nonchalantly as Mary Jo slowly is asphyxiated and drowned waiting for help that will not arrive.
Yes, history is beckoning us today. Mary Jo’s parents and family, had they had the opportunity, would have done everything in their power to pick up Mary Jo from that party in Chappaquiddick and prevent her from getting in that car that fateful night in July of 1969. Today, the parents are in the townhalls, townsquares and other places and openly pleading with their representatives to not get into the Obamacare Oldsmobubble. If they get in, close the door, and take the fateful ride–then the story of Mary Jo should ring in their ears as they see their own lives sacrificed upon the altar of liberalism.
If we are going to do anything for Teddy, then put every copy of HR3200 into the front seat of an Oldsmobile, and then push it off the bridge.
I’m sorry, but Ted Kennedy was most decidedly NOT an accomplished man. He was, at best, a man of extremely average intelligence whose left-wing aides were, in reality, the Senator from Massachusetts.
Kennedy Kare would be appropriate. The Lion was a champion of legislation that he himself was exempt from:
He never met a tax hike that he didn’t like but carefully sheltered his own assets.
He was a vocal supporter of environmentalism and renewable energy technology but not in his neighborhood.
And most importantly he advocated univeral mediocre health care for the masses but he himself preferred the elite congressional plan, and of course the power of his money and brand name.
Whatever those Solons in Congress come up with, we should insist that they participate. Further, we should consider a Constitutional Amendment requiring members of Congress to abide by the same rules as the rest of us, including paying their taxes. No member should be allowed to promulgate legislation that they themselves were exempt from.
Contempt of Congress in the past was regarded as a crime, when in fact it is an accolade.
Someone recently said it best–let’s put KennedyCare in the back of an Olds, drive it off a bridge, and wait for it to die.
I prefer ObamaCare, Barky needs to own this disaster. Just think of the marketing campaign:
- Get some hope with your change
- Be the first in your home to go before the death panel
- ObamaCare: cool, hip, and radical–like the man, ObamaCare takes more than it gives
- got healthcare? call Dr. Zeke to get your QALY score today
Don’t count the chickens before the eggs hatch.
John McCain enjoys undermining the Republican Party and slapping down America as much, maybe even more than Ted Kennedy did.
Kennedy and McCain were best buddies; which means McCain is already on the prowl for some way to insure this stupid healthcare reform bill is passed into law.
I say we get the health care bill done and do it in honor of Ted.
Then we can pass another bill giving free prescription pain medication and kiddie porn to everyone and do it in honor of Micheal Jackson.
They should have about the same benefit to society.
“The health care bill epitomizes the career of Senator Kennedy.”
…and the Democrats epitomize the career of Big Government
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0&feature=player_embedded
Kennedy escaped to a life of hedonism, debauchery, selfish destructive policy. He loved to demonize and ruin good peoples lives. He did this by projecting his rabid guilt on this country! There is little good to say about this fat man.
Kind of describes the healthcare bill!
Yes Vivo. Us haters want to see poor people dying in the street.
Jesus, what world do you even live in? The hard working tax payers of this coutry already pay for health care for the poor and elderly thru medicaid and medicare.
It is ironic to note that Teddy spared no expense on his own healthcare including flying to Duke for experimental surgery wereas, under the bill Kennedy supported, Teddy would have been handed a pain pill and told to go home to die, after government ‘end of life counseling’.
The rules that they force on the rest of the country have never applied to the Kennedys, and here is yet another example.
Senator Kennedy, our most outstanding mediocrity as a legislator; otherwise he was a womanizer, a drunk, a killer, a coward, a degenerate, a traitor, a liar, and a bad driver. Other than that his life was uneventful.
Eventually, the respect and restraint reserved for the recently departed will have outlived the required grace period and we will go on the attack; perhaps, the Commander in Wee Wee should be content with planting the Late pervert and get on with flushing his health care bill into the sewers with just Wee Wee on it.
Does anyone know about the settlement that was reached between the Kopechne family and Kennedy? I take it that part of the terms was that the Kopechnes’ remain silent about Mary Jo’s death. Are they now free to speak their mind?
#11 “Lives, both physical and political flash before Obama’s and his passengers eyes–the car rapidly fills with water. Every man for himself. Obama, like Teddy, luckily escapes, swims to the surface…”
There is one part about Kennedy’s side of this story that I just realized doesn’t make any sense. Kennedy said he returned to the car but couldn’t get in to rescue Mary Jo.
Yet Kennedy is now on the outside of the car. Obviously there was an opening large enough for Kennedy to get out of. Why this talk about need for divers and scuba tanks? This car was in 7 feet of water with the back end sticking out of the water with an opening large enough for Kennedy to egress.
Why couldn’t Kennedy reach in pull Mary Jo through the same opening he used and then stand up and surface?
I almost forgot that Teddy was an overt traitor. Thanks Steve Sampson for reminding me. Teddy, during the 1984 presidential campaign, actually met with officials from the former Soviet Union in an attempt to undermine Ronald Reagan’s re-election bid. Yep, Teddy consorted with the enemy for political gain. Of course, Teddy probably thought more of the former Soviet Union as an inspiration than an enemy.
Kennedy never got to vote on the resolution asking Congresscritters if they would put themselves under the “reform” plans they’re pushing on us, but his actions are a pretty good indicator of how he would have voted. He got on a plane to North Carolina to be treated by the top experts in the world. That’s KennedyCare, for a Kennedy at least.
How about “FatTeddyCare?”
How come so many nice words about Teddy and Mary Jo but none for their unborn child?
I can hardly believe all the hateful comments I read above. That is partly responsible for the current overall negative mood in this country. Speak your piece but skip the judgement of other people.
Why can’t people agree to disagree and respect other people and their opinions? What kind of message/picture are we presenting to the rest of the world? What would this world be like if we all agreed about everything? Pretty boring I’d say! Keep up the discussions, but keep it civil, non-judgemental, respectful, truthful and not a distortion of the facts. Listen to each other with open minds!!
For those of you who have critized the salaries, benefits, retirement for members of Congress – do some research! Check our this article – from FOX news. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,308378,00.html
All of this TK coverage is giving me a serious case of KDS.
I’m already all ‘Tedded’ out, man.
I’m more than 0bama’d out too but that twerp is the HBIC, still yappin’ is lyin’ maw and spending our country’s coffers into the ground unforunately.
D&T forever.
The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.
By all means, call it Kennedy Care. By all means, let the Democrats pass it. That way we both get what we want. Liberals and “real Americans” get healthcare reform. Conservatives get something to be outraged about. Everybody can go forward playing to their strengths.
I vote for Kennedy Care. Hey, that has a nice ring to it.
26 Janet M . . . Wow! Great post and great link. Will you run for office?
Aaron, this is a question that has plagued me since the event. Like Kennedy, I was raised around water, under different circumstances;I am an excellent swimmer and I presume that Ted was as well. There is no way I would have stopped trying to get anyone out of a car that was in seven foot of water.
For a man there is no question, get the girl and your unborn child out of the water.
A coward becomes scared of the dark and the possibility of death and runs. Perhaps his father realized his cowardice would surface in Korea and thus arranged his deployment to Europe, he probably saved many American lives in the process.
Remember the water was only seven foot deep and the current wasn’t fast enough to even move a partially submerged car downstream.
These are the actions of a consummate coward and moral degenerate; who should be held in contemn (Highest degree of contempt). The idea of holding him up as a paragon of virtue and a lion of the Senate brings shame unto the legislature and the country.
Plant the bugger and can the pomp and circumstance, it is all Marxist drama and beneath contempt.
#1 rachel peepers:
“I could also go for Chappaquiddick Care or even Kopechne Care, both having the added memorability of alliteration.”
I rather like that.
Could we split the difference and name it “Kennedy/Kopechne Kare”?
Under “K/KK”, you are left alone to die, while the politician who promised he’d be there for you goes onward to bigger and better things.
Rather apt, wouldn’t you say?
Upon the delivance of the eulogy, the keys to the Oldsmobile shall be passed. The keys that unlock the door to how liberals treat all people, from Mary Jo, to you and I, are passed from the patriarch, to the new generation. Ask not what Obamacare can do for you, but what you can do for Obamacare.
How fitting.
Is there a better, or more apt, name for the bloated abomination that is HB 3200 than “kennedy care”? (lowercase intentional)
Mary Jo Kopechne was a bigger trending topic than the dearly departed senator.
Fascinating read on that is…
Here
Just before his death, Kennedy was again appealing to the governor of Massachusetts to change the “fill my seat” laws. He’d done it before under a Republican governor and recently requested it be changed back under a Democrat governor. So worried about representation from Massachusetts in the US Senate, despite that he has missed over 97% of the votes sinces his illness.
Just like after having an altercation on Chappaquiddick Island, officials seem to ask “how high” when Teddy said jump.
If anyone wants to check out the treason allegations
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/27/ted-kennedy-soviet-union-ronald-reagan-opinions-columnists-peter-robinson.html
#26 Janet M.
“I can hardly believe all the hateful comments I read above. That is partly responsible for the current overall negative mood in this country. Speak your piece but skip the judgement of other people.
Hear, hear! Great words of advice, Janet. I’ve posted a couple of times about ad hominem usage. However, if you really want to read ugly, then take a peak at the comments at Democratic Underground concerning Glenn Beck. The DU site is the home of “free-flowing bile,” which is where some of our more left-leaning posters on this site appear to take their cue from.
For another take on Beck’s week of undressing the communists behind health care reform in the Obama administration (and other policies), including a “polite” discussion on the potential for armed revolution you can read this post.
For a good portion of Beck’s take on health care and the aforementioned communist “czars” (Special Advisers?), check out these videos.
At the end of the day, our representatives have a choice. They can either listen to us or keep ignoring us and expect the consequences. Polite speech cuts both ways. Unfortunately, the current crop of D.C. denizens don’t seem to appreciate this point.
Mark
JANET M:
Everybody plays by the same rules. When the radical left decides to behave civily, when the radical left stops attempting to destroy those who disagree with them, when the radical left demonstrates a scintilla of tolerance and good will, then I will be happy to reciprocate. Until then I would prefer to rip their throats out. If the radical left prefers a brawl, then so be it. The point of the exercise is to prevail, not to be well thought of.
I insist with
chappaquiddick-care.
Its slogan could be
“Congressmen walk away from it”
which, you will admit, has A LOT of meanings
Thank you for the opportunity to comment
Glenn Beck has done a real service, especially this week.
None of his information has been disputed by the White House (including the Apollo Alliance’s hand in writing the Porkulus) although apparently, Beck did get a phone call during one show this week telling him to stop referring to people like Van Jones & John Holdren as “Czars”.
Mark Lloyd,Obama’s “diversity” guy at the FCC (in love with OOgoe Chavez’ revolution would be putting it mildly) apparently doesn’t qualify for the Czar title. We’ll just call him a subversive jerk.
Here’s another brain dead politician…
This one is in love with Fidel Castro
Yipes, wrong link
Lady in love with Fidel
SEEN AT
http://michellemalkin.com/
Democrat Rep. Diane Watson says:
“…Kicked out the wealthy”… is pretty much the whole program of this administration.
Then they will give us the same WONDERFUL things that Castro has given to Cuba.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment
PS When castro needs a doctor, they fly one in from SPAIN.
From the CIA world-factbook:
CUBA:
GDP – per capita (PPP):
$9,500 (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 107
$9,100 (2007 est.)
$8,500 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
As the demonrats say, go there and SEE what castro has put in place.
A hell of poverty.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
FROM THE CIA WORLD FACT BOOK
so you can compare these numbers with the data I posted above
United States of America
GDP – per capita (PPP):
$47,000 (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 10
$46,800 (2007 est.)
$46,300 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Thank you for the opportunity to comment
So,
if you read all the info I posted above, you must applaud the effort of the democrats to let you have FIVE TIMES LESS of anything you have, your family has, your neighbors have.
That luminous day in which the Supreme Leader of the Proletarian Revolution and Apologizer in Chief will have realized his wondrous plans and made America similar to Cuba, you will have
1/5
of what you have.
1/5 of your computer
1/5 of today’s breakfast, lunch and dinner
1/5 of medical services
1/5 of your clothes
1/5 of your car
1/5 of your house
These are the wonderful successes of world communism, now finally reachable by us too.
THEY SAY SO, see my posts above
PS For sure they are going to solve the problem of obesity.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment
Great name. They can bury the bill right next to Ted.
KennedyCare-RIP
42. Diane Watson says, “. . . the Cuban revolution kicked out the wealthy . . .”
Useful idiots see only what they want to see. In truth, the class enemy of Marxists is anyone who can be construed as bourgeoisie (aka the middle class). Stalin’s first victims included the kulaks (property owning farmers). Mao likewise targeted middling farmers and merchants as enemies of the people. Once the middle class is destroyed only two groups remain: the rulers (party elites) and the ruled (everyone else). It would appear that America’s leftist elites are playing for all the chips this time around. At one-sixth of our national economy, our health care system represents the biggest prize on the table. The bastards must be stopped.
The Lion of the Senate…Traitor..
The Sea Lion of the Chappaquidick…. Murderer.
Thank you Sherab Zangpo for the above posts which lists FACTS about how great life is under Communism. Liberals and Democrats don’t bother with facts. They figure their followers are too dumb to understand the difference between facts and the fictions they like to chant.
We can only wish that by any name, health care reform passes soon. Only the lunatic fringe and big insurance refuse to admit that health care in America is second rate to non-existent for many of our working families. Most of those that are against it are those that change will effect the least. The rich. We must also remember, that like a strong defense, health care is something that gives all a wonderful return on the taxes we pay, unlike all the tax breaks and money funnelled to bank excecutives and big business. Lets get this reform passed this year and not return to the “no” years of the past. He may not have always been great on the personal attributes, but as a senator, Kennedy would deserve this legislation to be in his name.
#50 Poor Citizen:
“. Lets get this reform passed this year and not return to the “no” years of the past. He may not have always been great on the personal attributes, but as a senator, Kennedy would deserve this legislation to be in his name.”
Translated:
“Give me your money. Ted Kennedy would have given me your money.”
POOR CITIZEN:
Really? How much money do you spend on: cell phones, internet, ciggiers, beer and wine, beauticians,restaurants,bass boats,manicures,hair styling, pay-for-view, and all of the other essentials of your life? Please define ‘working class’. How obese are you? Do you smoke? Get any exercise? Are you a US citizen? Should Uncle Sam pay for Viagra? tummy tucks? Botox? condoms? Is any of your health your responsibility? If you’ve decided to spend your day in front of the tube eating nachos and cheese, smoking, having a beer or two, am I supposed to cover the costs of your bad habits? If you are too dumb to know that enjoying anal intercourse with four or five guys over a weekend is sort of foolish, do I pay for that? If you drink and drive, or don’t bother to wear a helmet when cycling or a seat belt when driving, it comes out of my pocket? Do you assume any resonsibility at all for the consequences of your actions?
#42….We need to stop referring to them as the black caucus, and call them what they are; the communist caucus. I know, the C word is the new N word.
The year 2009 will go down as the year the Democrat party are exposed as the radical left-wing party they are.
Mr genghis a bass boat sounds like fun, but I’d rather have it back in Alabama. I don’t need any lead in my pencil, so I will skip the Viagra. Tummy tucks and botox are a Progressive deal for people like John Kerry and Nancy Peolsi, so I’ll pass on that stuff. I only have a couple of male friends and if they couldn’t stay at arm’s length, they would no longer be my friends. I drink wine not beer; it would be different if I could get the gas in my tank. Nachos and cheese don’t appeal to me. I ride a Harley and always wear a helmet, I only drink at home and would never drive while drunk. I take full responsibility for all my actions, even though, my business might go broke just before I retire. I have worked six and seven days a week my entire life, I will take responsibilty for my own finances without expecting Obama and his Acorn Thugs to come and bail me out is my situation worsens. No genghis you will not be expected to pay for the failure of my business nor would I expect to share the profits with you if it had maintained itself for a few more years. So relax, we are not all looking for a free ride on your paycheck.
Trying to make a point, my friend.
genghis,
As a collectivist, Poor Citizen will not understand your line of questioning. We got Obama because most people can’t see through the flowery platitudes of the leftist power seekers. This being their stock in trade. But anyway, nice attack.
19. Pqat B:
“Us haters want to see poor people dying in the street.”
Then, why are you whining and kicking a tantrum without giving any constructive ideas?
“The hard working tax payers of this coutry(sic) already pay for health care for the poor and elderly thru medicaid and medicare.”
What’s the story on the 47 million uninsured people?
12. Brownie:
“I’m sorry, but Ted Kennedy was most decidedly NOT an accomplished man. He was, at best, a man of extremely average intelligence whose left-wing aides were, in reality, the Senator from Massachusetts.”
That’s the way it works in business & politics. The man/woman gets the credit but his associates provide the brains & the brawn. There’s many like that around.
Mr steveg, perhaps the Black affinity for Communism is a longing for the Peculiar Institution of the plantation system. The plantation in the American South had White Elites but this varied, in the Carribean free blacks often owned slaves. If Obama’s Marxist vision or Plantation System is successfully implemented, there will be multi-racial Elites once again, that could be considered Progress.
The dynamics are similar, whether we refer to Cuba, Russia, China, Venezuela, or the Utopian dreams of the Black Caucus. The masses are cared for by the “Benevolent” master or the Elites, there is free food, free housing, and free medical care.
The slave or Party Member does his six hours of work each day and his needs are provided for, there are no failures, success is guaranteed; much like Affirmative Action. Yes, whether you are a slave or a Communist Prole (Worker) there is little difference. The slave or Prole lives in poverty, while the Elite or Master Class lives in luxury.
Surely, this why the Black Majority is so comfortable with their acceptance of Communism. Although the irony is obvious and pathetic, they are expecting reparations for ancestors who were once slaves; but are more than willing to become slaves once again.
Does any one know if the Kennedy family has some type of foundation for charitable projects? Obviously, with all of their wonderful intentions to help the poor, they must have a huge foundation that helps people that can vote for them. Certainly, they would not only expect government to do the job, they would want to put their own skin in the game.
just call it DOA. It was a foney fraudulent peice of elcrapo and belongs in the basement of an outhouse or in a grave, its doesn’t matter just DOA IT
#26: “Speak your piece but skip the judgement of other people.”
Is that what you say whenever you hear the name “Karl Rove”? How about “Clarence Thomas”? “Rush Limbaugh”? “Sarah Palin”? “Sean Hannity”? “Glen Beck”? “Michelle Bachman”?
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect…”
— Theodore Dalrymple
STEVE SAMPSON:
Yes, but are you a citizen….you didn’t mention?
What makes you think that I am Mr. Genghis. Are you a sexist?
It is interesting, don’t you think that the government is considering taxing soft drinks, and already tax tobacco because of the health consequences associated with their usage. HIV/AIDs represents a major chunk of healthcare expenditures, but I haven’t heard anything about taxing the behaviour that accounts for that epidemic. Have you? (hint…it’s not everybodys problem’).
I stumbled across this site and this article while doing a little research on health care issues. WOW. Are you guys for real? Get an education!!
The 2 stupidest sentences ever written in the English language:
As Teddy’s biographer Adam Clymer wrote, Edward Kennedy’s “achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.”
Melissa Lafsky mused on what Mary Jo “would have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history . . . Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.”
Airbrushing out Mary Jo Kopechne
(I know it’s a tough choice with all the airheads & trolls writing on PJM, but, honestly, these are tough to top)
DEAR WILL:
I realize that we are not as literate as the folk who throng to the Huff Post. But. pf course, it is difficult to compete wsithd the brain dead. I am sure that you are earnestly investigating the current state of health care. Forgive me, but you are so misinformed, so uneducated, so completely clueless (I am sure that at least that regisgters), that I would have very difficult time discussing the matter with you. You see, I do it, every day, and you just fantasize.
Mingus: FYI = I’m a physician.
Are you guys for real? Get an education!!
What’s dumb, Will ?
The video (above) of the CA congresswoman singing the praises of Fidel Castro ?
The statistics comparing abject life under Fidel with the United States ? (are you one of those, uh, idjits who lauds Cuban healthcare ?)
The government power grab masquerading as health care “insurance” reform ?
The eugenics laden thinking behind the influential MD in the Obama administration who advises Obama, Ezekiel Emanuel and his equally macabre sidekick, science advisor, John Holdren ?
Tommy Daschle, another Obama point men on “healthcare” is also deep into notions of some government bureaucrat deciding level of care your “loved one” might receive as a function of said bureaucrat making that determination. (Tommy couldn’t be out front as Obama’s HHS Secretary due to some major personal tax issues, as you may recall)
“healthcare” needs improvement in this country, delivery, cost, quality etc., but this particular government power grab ain’t the route.
tanstaafi:
Really? Just because I comment about the low intelligence level of these blogs you feel the need to label me as a supporter of a Fidel Castro, Cuban health care system? I don’t believe there is a physician out there that supports a governmental agency dictating the level of care a patient should receive. Health insurance companies already attempt to do that today and in some cases it negatively impacts patient care. I couldn’t be more opposed to a State-run single-payor system. I’m merely expressing my opinion that the messages conveyed in these blogs amount to nothing more than junior high-level name calling. Thanks for validating my opinion. Have fun, dudes!
63. Will:
“I stumbled across this site and this article while doing a little research on health care issues. WOW. Are you guys for real? Get an education!!”
U ain’t seen anything yet . . .
And they call me a troll . . .
Beats Comedy Central.
WILL:
Aha, you are a phsyician. Congrats. Doing research on health care. Uh Huh. Well, I am a physician doing health care. Bit of a sublte difference, eh? Ezekiel Emmanuel is also a physician researching health care. I beleive he has suggested we dump the Hypocratic Oath and pay attention to the needs of society rather than our patients. You know, sacrifice the one for the greater good. We are rapidly losing our trust in ‘the experts’. And we vote.
Just because I comment about the low intelligence level of these blogs you feel the need to label me as a supporter of a Fidel Castro, Cuban health care system?
You didn’t get the point, Will.
I asked you what you considered the low level commentary here (i.e., who needed the “education” you reference). I did not accuse you of subscribing to specific ideas.
I’m merely expressing my opinion that the messages conveyed in these blogs amount to nothing more than junior high-level name calling.
Really ? Maybe you should do a little more than dip in, leave your thoughts & dip (dismissively) out.
Anyway, as a self-ordained member of the “enlightened”, you might have spent your time here…enlightening, instead of saying how dumb people are.
Absent that, I’ll further your education by linking you to a couple of other physicians with rather opposing views of federal government interference in medicine. Dr. Zeke (the guy mainly advising Obama on “care”) can’t seem to get enough government interference,while the ophthalmologist provides some great examples of screwed uppedness, government style.
Obama’s Health Rationer-in-Chief
ObamaCare and me
Let me know if you’d like more articles, Will.
Oh, and Will ?
Here’s a short distillation of the Obama administration’s main proposals on “health care”, translated into English.
Since Congresscritters like John Conyers, pumping hard for the public option, don’t really understand the thing, it helps John (maybe even you) that somebody went to the trouble to “evaluate” the convoluted verbiage of HR3200.
You know, tell you what the thing says in language even John Conyers might understand.
America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
IT CAN BE CALLED”KENNEDYCARE”,ONLY IF THE DEATH PANELS ARE ALLOWED TO RECOMMEND THAT SENIOR CITIZENS DEEMED DISPOSABLE,CAN GO ON ONE-WAY CAR RIDES IN CLUNKERS DRIVEN BY MEMBERS OF THE KENNEDY FAMILY.