Posted by
Sgt.Stryker on Monday, August 31, 2009 10:51:25 AM
The death of Ted Kennedy has given some on the left even more resolve to get their health care bill through Congress.
I say let's grant their wish.
Kennedycare for all. We'll wrap it up in a nice box with a bow if you like. Guaranteed to please.
We would be indebted if the left would take this gift.
And here it is...
You propose a bill in Ted's name, and it will contain tort reform/penalty caps, some reform of pre-existing condition issues, and an improvement on portability. You can put healthcare savings accounts/ subsidies in there if you like. And potential recipients have to provide passport and picture ID and be run through an E-verify type database. And you fire the "czars", all of them.
What a gift to his legacy.
Especially considering the vile acts, both personal and professional, that he engaged in thoughout his life. The debauchery, the callousness with which he doomed millions to destitution, much less the outright crimes he committed. In the name of the poor he gave a handout to, instead of a hand up to. In the name of the millions of dead infants he was complicit in killing. For actively seeking to undermine human desire and devalue human capital. For adultery, and shockingly gross behavior.
What a gift indeed. Public redemption and rehabilitation.
Kennedycare will be completely bi-partisan, targeted, easy to understand and implement. It will be effective and tax-neutral. It will not grow government substantially. It will turn off a critical draw to illegals, just as effective as any fence that could be built. It will restore some transparency to this administration.
No public option, no government option.
We will see that a bill like that gets through to the president's desk and that he signs it.
If you refuse to give this gift from Ted, the one we know Ted had hidden deep within himself, that only he can give, we have to believe you're not really serious about helping your constituents or about bi-partisanship.
Then, it's game on.
Keep fighting amongst yourselves, keep tossing away any shred of legitimacy you may have left, and we'll keep pushing on issues at townhalls and tea parties...or maybe we'll just start camping in the capitals and city halls. And Congress. Gridlock will be the order of the day.
Or you can leave him with a reason to deserve all of the posthumous praise that has been heaped upon him.
Because, why should we waste a perfectly good crisis?