Congress' Health Care Bill Passes Away This Morning

Good riddance to bad rubbish!

Duval Patrick, a dem, is the Governor here in MA now, not Romney. Patrick would most certainly appoint a dem.

While the "health" bill is in trouble, they'll pass something that will at least give the statists the framework for eventual government run health care.

The socialization of our country will continue, I'm afraid.

Ironically, this won't create a more "fair" society, just one in which more people rely on the government.

Obama's idealogy kool-aid is swill that his zombies gulp down.

On the night of July 18, 1969, Kennedy was on Martha's Vineyard's Chappaquiddick Island at a party for the "Boiler Room Girls", a group of young women who had worked on his brother Robert's presidential campaign the year before. Leaving the party, Kennedy was driving a 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 with one of the women, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, as his passenger, when Kennedy drove off Dike Bridge into the Poucha Pond inlet. Kennedy escaped the overturned vehicle and swam to safety, but Kopechne died in the car. Kennedy left the scene and did not call authorities until after Kopechne's body was discovered the following day.

On July 25, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and was given a sentence of two months in jail, suspended. That night, he gave a national broadcast in which he said, "I regard as indefensible the fact that I did not report the accident to the police immediately," but denied driving under the influence of alcohol and denied any immoral conduct between him and Kopechne.

Conservative in MA wrote:

Duval Patrick, a dem, is the Governor here in MA now, not Romney. Patrick would most certainly appoint a dem.

While the "health" bill is in trouble, they'll pass something that will at least give the statists the framework for eventual government run health care.

The socialization of our country will continue, I'm afraid.

Ironically, this won't create a more "fair" society, just one in which more people rely on the government.

Obama's idealogy kool-aid is swill that his zombies gulp down.

That's good information. The way I understand it, there will have to be an election now for Splash's replacement. That should take long enough that there will not be a filibuster proof majority. The healthcare takeover can be defeated.

The last days speak to Kennedy's character.

He changed election laws when Romney was governor saying "the people should decide" in a special election. Now that the governor's a Dem, his last acts were to try to modify the laws again go back to gubernatorial appointments. Screw the people.

He was all politics and bullshit. Still may he rest in peace, whatever that really means...

1. Ted Kennedy was one of the greatest senators in living memory.

2. Health reform needs 50 votes, not 60. (or 51, either, because of the VP).

3. "The cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die." We will have health reform in this country.

4. Your kids will wonder why the hell you were opposed to something that made so much sense. Like your grandparents were so opposed to Social Security when they were young.

1. No he wasn't.

2. Less than sixty can be killed by a filibuster.

3. Not this year.

4. My kids will thank me since they will have less debt.

Let me add to that last post.

My son has already thanked me.

You people are the lowest of low, I am talking about a race of people who have lived under 10 miles of the earth's crust for 1000 years and horribly mutated from a nuclear apocalypse low.

Ted Kennedy has hardly breathed his last breath before you abominations to human dignity are dancing all over his grave and celebrating. No wonder you don't want universal health care coverage you take to much sick joy in watching others die. Just pathetic, you are just pathetic.

BTW America is not becoming a socialist nation if that health care bill gets passed, if you believe it is than not only are you a sad excuse for a human being but your also incredibly dumb, ignorant and lacking in reasoning skills.

How long did Kennedy wait after he killed Mary Jo?

we're going to be respectful today or, to put it another way, we're going to observe a minimum standard of respect. the thread to which you refer included posts that didn't come close to meeting that standard.

the most salient element of ted kennedy's career is his ability to not hate, not be cynical, not keep score, not lay in the tall weeds. for this reason, orrin hatch and other of the *best* republican senators considered kennedy their friend. it would be nice if those of both political persuasions took a lesson from kennedy and hatch, and could comport themselves with the dignity of each.

but i know that will not happen, because the internet is populated by small, classless, unequipped, ignorant, fearful people, whose only outlet is to lash out from the safety of their keyboards. for those who behave according to type, do your best to listen to your better angels today, if you can still hear them.

Again, if your issue is with the Mary Jo incident your main contention would be that he acted as a coward. I ask you as a decent human being how much courage does it take to attack a man, a family a group of greiving people on the very day that someone dies? You are no better than Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church, you might even be worse because they at least have the guts to go out in public and say their filth, you say it on a internet chat room devoted to running.

I think I love you runner_pucci

The bill passed away a while ago.

When some of us began asking 'how much for this?' and weren't given an answer and were called stupid instead ..... that's when it died.

its mutual

runner_pucci wrote:

its mutual

excellent!

health care reform will pass. love talk!

The Senate was never going to pass the house version of the reform bill mainly because there were enough Democrats who were opposed.

Kennedy's death (and his name will be attached to whatever bill comes out of the Senate) may actually help get something passed and some sort of bill will pass. Then Obama will claim he did it and move on despite the bill falling far short of what Obama/Waxman/Pelosi/Reid want.