Democrats to America: Let’s Pass Terrible Legislation for Teddy
The inevitable has happened: Democrats are using Ted Kennedy’s death as a rallying point to pass health care reform:
Democrats are hoping that the memory of Sen. Ted Kennedy will revive the Democratic Party’s flagging push for health care reform.
“You’ve heard of ‘win one for the Gipper’? There is going to be an atmosphere of ‘win one for Teddy,’” Ralph G. Neas, the CEO of the liberal National Coalition on Health Care, told ABC News.
This is proof that liberals can’t link. Why would liberals think that public opinion could be changed by renaming unpopular legislation after a polarizing politician? Let’s illustrate this this way: John Q. Public hears that Democrats introduce new health care legislation with the title of The Ted Kennedy Legacy Health Care Act.” They then read the bill and notice that the same unpopular provisions that’ve soured public opinion are still included in the legislation.
It isn’t likely that John Q. Public will say this:
“The legislation still leads to rationing. The legislation still leads to fewer choices for consumers. Let’s support this legislation because it’s named for Ted Kennedy.”
This is proof that the Democrats are frustrated that they can’t pass their signature issue. It’s proof that Democrats will use any news story to pass a failed policy. Finally, it’s proof that Democrats are desparate to pass health care. If they fail at passing robust health care ‘reform’, they’ll lose the midterm elections and cripple President Obama’s administration going forward.
It’s time that we buried Obamacare/Teddycare. It’s bad policy that’s being pushed by a polarizing president and that was pushed by a quarrelsome senator.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
August 28th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Let’s call it Submarine Health Insurance: Teddy’s (SHIT)tm, because when you go down, there’ll be no coming back up. Socialism is dying one evil bastard at a time. God have mercy on your soul, Ted. Who’s got Pelosi in the death pool, Vanna?
August 29th, 2009 at 12:50 am
Well, ya see, this is where all the guvmint “free” insurance wouldn’t help a’tall, ’cause Mary Jo still wouldn’ta had a chance ’cause Teddy still left her ‘live and drownin’ and not even a savior like Zero could do a thing ’bout that.
But I’m sure the death panel would give Teddy a bronze star for helpin’ keep the population and costs down.