ScrappleFace.com editor Scott Ott writes a satire column in The Washington Examiner each Tuesday and Friday. Here’s an excerpt of his latest and a link to read more.
As a tribute to the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, whose year-long battle with brain cancer ended Tuesday, Senate Democrats have announced that each of them will purchase a health insurance policy to cover a poor family for the rest of their lives.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said his colleagues would also encourage every American Democrat who earns more than $100,000 per year to do the same. Reid has invited Republicans to emulate the move, and he speculated that “they’ll probably cover two families each just to flaunt their wealth.”
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1 Darthmeister // Aug 28, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Despite decades of false liberal stereotypes, conservatives, not liberals, are the more compassionate givers
Even liberal Nicholas Kristof admits conservatives are more generous and compassionate than bleeding-yeart liberals. Kristof even coined the term, "bleeding-heart tightwads" to refer to self-righteous liberals who see themselves as the poor's saviors because of their alleged great storehouse of "compassion". Yeah, liberals can afford to be their kind of "compassionate progressive" when they use other people's money.
2 ScrappleFace // Aug 28, 2009 at 8:37 pm
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3 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 28, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Thank you, Scott. Thank you very much.
4 ChileSerrano // Aug 28, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Hear, hear! Go get 'em, Scott! Off with their (figuratively speaking, of course) Heads …
5 camojack // Aug 28, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Charity begins…in Congrefs?
6 whizbang // Aug 28, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Sounds fair to me Scott - even tho I am guilty of same in defense ……….
7 ChileSerrano // Aug 28, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Hmmm. I quote from the Examiner article : “ … Kennedy's … reputation as a lawmaker who could bridge partisan divides … .”
In the spirit of bipartisanship, may I suggest that a better phrase might be “ … a lawmaker who could overcome partisan divisions … ” - particularly at this delicate time ?
Let us not inadvertently dredge up any bad memories.
8 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 29, 2009 at 10:56 am
My favorite sentence:
9 onlineanalyst // Aug 29, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Mark Steyn does a fine job of puting the deteils back into the airbrushing of Ted Kennedy: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjZlNjA1MTRm...
10 MoMadeMeDoIt // Aug 29, 2009 at 4:09 pm
"Barack is now the last brother." — MSNBC's Chris Matthews
Last I heard, Obama's half-brother George Hussein Onyango Obama was still living in a Kenyan hut.
~~ Genesis 4:9
11 MoMadeMeDoIt // Aug 29, 2009 at 4:25 pm
onlineanalyst: Re the Mark Steyn column - talk about "An Inconvenient Woman" !
12 WhizBang // Aug 29, 2009 at 5:31 pm
I live in Kennedy's home state and I have not seen any evidence of 'airbrushing him'. His failings and mistakes have been acknowledged even in his eulogy.
Is there any one of us who does not have a shadow or two in our closet ? Let's be honest about this !
13 MoMadeMeDoIt // Aug 29, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Personally, I would guess that the compound at Hyannisport contains more square feet of closet space than the total square feet of living space in the average American home. Fortunately for Ted, that was only one of the sources of closet space he had available to him.
Brent Bozell is nowhere near as critical of Ted Kennedy as some others, but this article is more clear-eyed than many of the current memorial columns. To quote the late Senator Kennedy himself, "I hope you understand it is nothing personal."
14 MoMadeMeDoIt // Aug 29, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Personally, I would guess that the compound at Hyannisport contains more square feet of closet space than the total square feet of living space in the average American home. Fortunately for Ted, that was only one of the sources of closet space he had available to him.
Brent Bozell is nowhere near as critical of Ted Kennedy as some others, but this article is more clear-eyed than many of the current memorial columns. To quote the late Senator Kennedy himself, "I hope you understand it is nothing personal."
15 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 29, 2009 at 7:00 pm
To be honest, I have not been watching the Michael Jackson-like media frenzy surrounding the death of Edward Kennedy.
Are you saying that they actually bragged about Kopechne's death at his hands while in a drunken stupor and how he got away with it (a la O.J.) in his eulogies?
16 ChileSerrano // Aug 29, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Here is the text of Obama's eulogy at Ted Kennedy's funeral Mass.
Oddly enough, I can't seem to find any acknowledgement of his "failings and mistakes" in it. My eyesight must be getting even worse than it already was …
17 ChileSerrano // Aug 29, 2009 at 7:46 pm
This Op-Ed by British PM Gordon Brown in the Boston Globe has also been referred to by some as a "eulogy.
Damian Thompson, writing in the UK's Telegraph, calls it "Gordon Brown's sickening eulogy to Ted Kennedy."
Can't find any "failings and mistakes" mentioned there, either. Oh well …
18 ChileSerrano // Aug 29, 2009 at 7:47 pm
This Op-Ed by British PM Gordon Brown in the Boston Globe has also been referred to by some as a "eulogy".
Damian Thompson, writing in the UK's Telegraph, calls it "Gordon Brown's sickening eulogy to Ted Kennedy."
Can't find any "failings and mistakes" mentioned there, either. Oh well …
19 onlineanalyst // Aug 29, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Anita Moncrief explains how the Cloward-Piven strategy, employed during the Great Society of Johnson, destroyed the cities and the hope of its poorer inhabitants: <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/29/liberal-fal…” target=”_blank”>http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/29/liberal-fal…
The middle class is the next target of this strategy through the enactiment of the Obama-Teddycare Health Bill, bankrupting the nation and the dollar and eventually leading to social chaos.
Does one wonder to what end?
When Representatives like Diane Watson (D- CA) sing the Hosanahs of Fidel Castro and Che Gueverra and the Cuban health system, the motives of the REgressives is unmistakable..
20 WhizBang // Aug 29, 2009 at 8:15 pm
I notice that most commenters seem to be ignoring completely my statement that most all of us have a shadow or two in our closets. Whether you admit it or not I doubt that any of you are immune from such shadows.
21 ChileSerrano // Aug 29, 2009 at 8:48 pm
I can only speak for myself, but there aren't any shadows in my closet ! That's 'cause I got two!! Battery-Operated LED Stick-Em-Up-Anywhere Closet Lights from the late great Billy May ! - and they only charged me for one on top of everything else !
No shadows ! Ever ! ! And no dead bodies in my car either ! ! !
22 MoMadeMeDoIt // Aug 29, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
Working tirelessly to destroy the reputation of drunken sailors since 1962.
23 RAM1 // Aug 30, 2009 at 1:12 am
I don't seem to remember the left being quite so forgiving, (OR the media making such a big deal), when people like Strom Thurman passed away.
In FACT, there was not NEAR the media spotlight when Ronald Reagan, or Gerald Ford passed and they were Presidents!
I can forgive and forget but the left and their "puppet media" make it EXTREMLY hard when they whitewash Teddie's past and try to hold him up as a Saint.
Did I misunderstand that the left want to "install" the Kennedy son to "daddy's seat" that had the DUI/crash and then ran from the scene just a short while back?
If so, he will fit right in with the rest of Obama's "thug-ocrocy"!
This is the same thing that the DNC/Dem party did with Rep. Julia Carson's House seat when she died. It is now held by her grandson, an admitted Muslim Andre Carson who REFUSES to hold any Town Hall's while home. He DID, however just address the Rotary Club here though.
If you do not know, "Rotarians" are a MUCH more loving audience toward libs!
24 RAM1 // Aug 30, 2009 at 1:25 am
PLUS, I consider it EXTREMELY hypocritical to COMPLETELY ignore Teddy's divorce, (was it only one?), and marriage to a woman that could almost be his granddaughter when the left CONSTANTLY uses this same subject to beat Conservatives over the head with!
Some examples are McCain, Newt Gingrich, and even Ronald Reagan.
They are EXTREMELY silent about their own including the Hollyweird crowd.
25 gafisher // Aug 30, 2009 at 1:28 am
"Senate Dems Honor Kennedy, Each Insures a Poor Family"
To be fair, the Dems have been ensuring poverty among American families for decades.
26 RAM1 // Aug 30, 2009 at 1:28 am
Maybe it is because Teddy LOOKS like a Saint compared to Obama?
In Obama's mind, Teddy was a rank amateur when commiting evil deeds.
27 RAM1 // Aug 30, 2009 at 1:31 am
Perhaps Cape Cod can now be "Global Warming" friendly and allow wind farms now that the biggest detractor to them being put there is now gone?
28 gafisher // Aug 30, 2009 at 1:31 am
Maybe it was done by omission, such as leaving out the stuff about his ability to work miracles and so on.
No, wait, they did mention that. Beats me what wizzy meant.
29 onlineanalyst // Aug 30, 2009 at 4:48 am
Doug Giles asks why the WH doesn't want Glenn Beck to pose pertinent questions: http://townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2009/08/...
Inquiring minds would like some answers, too.
30 onlineanalyst // Aug 30, 2009 at 4:58 am
Victor Davis Hanson puts the Ted Kennedy mythos into perspective: http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/29/edward-ted-kenne...
31 RAM1 // Aug 30, 2009 at 1:34 am
Well, whizbang, I don't seem to remember the left being quite so forgiving, (OR the media making such a big deal), when people like Strom Thurman passed away.
In FACT, there was not NEAR the media spotlight when Ronald Reagan, or Gerald Ford passed and they were Presidents!
I can forgive and forget but the left and their "puppet media" make it EXTREMELY hard when they whitewash Teddie's past and try to hold him up as a Saint.
Did I misunderstand that the left want to "install" the Kennedy son to "daddy's seat" that had the DUI/crash and then ran from the scene just a short while back?
If so, he will fit right in with the rest of Obama's "thug-ocrocy"!
This is the same thing that the DNC/Dem party did with Rep. Julia Carson's House seat when she died. It is now held by her grandson, an admitted Muslim Andre Carson who REFUSES to hold any Town Hall's while home. He DID, however just address the Rotary Club here though.
If you do not know, "Rotarians" are a MUCH more loving audience toward libs!
32 gafisher // Aug 30, 2009 at 11:21 am
Of courfe! Where elfe? (-:
33 gafisher // Aug 30, 2009 at 11:31 am
"… the Cloward-Piven strategy, employed during the Great Society of Johnson, destroyed the cities and the hope of its poorer inhabitants …"
Just as many still insist the USSR collapsed because it didn't take the principles of Engels and Marx far enough, there are those who firmly believe the Great Society would have succeeded had Cloward and Piven been followed more assiduously. Those "true believers" can be found today at every level of government.
34 gafisher // Aug 30, 2009 at 11:46 am
I've never left someone to die as a result of my foolish actions, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't brag about it if I had. And I really don't think anyone would dismiss it as a mere shadow.
35 gafisher // Aug 30, 2009 at 11:55 am
Darth, there's one area where the pattern is reversed. Conservatives tend to discipline their own quite consistently, while liberals overwhelmingly excuse even the most serious transgressions of other liberals. If justice is ignored, this could be considered a profligate sort of charity.
36 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 30, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
~~~Matthew 7:15
37 onlineanalyst // Aug 30, 2009 at 1:26 pm
OT: From all appearances, Eric Holder's zeal to investigate jihadist interrogators will dismantle our highly effective clandestine service, which had to resurrect itself after Clinton's efforts to gut it: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203...
What exactly is the game of this administration? It doesn't seem to involve the security of our nation.
38 onlineanalyst // Aug 30, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Paul Jacob opines re the necessity of term limits while observsing the rites of Ted Kennedy's passing from this world: His (Ted Kennedy's) ideas dovetailed with the accumulation of power, and its maintenance. The longer one stays in office, the more one learns how to gather votes for programs that force government’s intrusive hand further into everyday life.
Jacob applies the same principles to Robert Byrd, Strom Thurmond, and Ted Stevens. The flaw expanding a power base by promising favors is not partisan, not limited to one party.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
How easy it is to use the power of the federal government to impose idealistic legislation with other people's money!
39 WhizBang // Aug 30, 2009 at 2:53 pm
I do not feel our government should spend its time or resources on investigating the jihadist interrogators who plied their trade under the Bush Administration. That is past history and it smells more like revengeful political action then anything else.
In my view our resources need to be totally devoted to more important issues, amongst which are doing what we can to protect ourselves from future terrorist attacks.
I also agree with your last post onlineanalyst in regard to Paul Jacob !
40 ChileSerrano // Aug 30, 2009 at 3:57 pm
onlineanalyst: When will we learn?
“The terrorists were at war with us, but we were not yet at war with them.”
~ Dr. Condoleezza Rice : testimony before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Thursday, April 8, 2004)
41 gafisher // Aug 30, 2009 at 6:19 pm
"It doesn't seem to involve the security of our nation."
It does, but not in a positive way.
42 gafisher // Aug 30, 2009 at 6:24 pm
"… the jihadist interrogators …"
Does that phrase refer to the interrogators of jihadists, or the jihadists who interrogated? There are some significant differences between the two groups, beginning with the fact the first group saved lives while the second took them.
43 MoMadeMeDoIt // Aug 30, 2009 at 6:58 pm
This article in The Guardian by the (politically liberal) novelist Joyce Carol Oates contains a brief but accurate summary of Chappaquiddick. Oates published a novella (Black Water) in 1992 that was based on the incident.
44 onlineanalyst // Aug 30, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Massachusetts is the "laboratory" for Obamacare, and the sorry results demonstrate the flaws inherent in a government takeover of health insurance. The supportive details come from Cato Institute: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/29/massachuset...
In Massachusetts, insurance costs have escalated, unfairly penalizing the young and healthy, as well as leading to rationing.
What part of common sense are the Dems and Obama missing?
The opposition party has offered a myriad of ways to cover the uninsured without bankrupting the nation and ultimately providing substandard care to all but the elite.
45 onlineanalyst // Aug 30, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Doctor Zero spells out his?her? objections to the Ted Kennedy narrative: http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/08/30/m...
46 ChileSerrano // Aug 31, 2009 at 1:07 am
The comments that follow Doctor Zero's observations are worth reading too. Here's an example:
I do think Obama was right to call Teddy the “Soul of the Democratic Party”. If ever a political party had a soul, theirs is that of a drunken sailor. — starboardhelm
47 WhizBang // Aug 31, 2009 at 1:26 am
The jihadists who interrogated did not ply their trade under the auspices of the Bush Administration, as you well know.
48 RAM1 // Aug 31, 2009 at 1:26 am
Regardless of what Obama may have SAID about Kennedy at the eulogy, my guess is, this is what he was THINKING,
"Wasn't this the typical white guy that called me 'Osama-Obama-Osama'?"
49 RAM1 // Aug 31, 2009 at 1:32 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APx2YJ-_jos
That's the link to Teddy's "Osama Obama" flub. It is STILL hilarious!!!
50 WhizBang // Aug 31, 2009 at 1:44 am
You are correct. Mass Health Care is not inexpensive ! I don't believe any rationing has taken place … yet !
You are correct. Mass Health Care is not inexpensive ! I don't believe any rationing has taken place … yet !
As a Democrat I am not in favor of government run health care. I am in favor of health care becoming more efficient and less costly. A recent article in one of our newspapers pointed out how inefficient our hospitals are run and as a result are much more costly.
I also feel that the current administration and Democrats in Congress have ignored some sensible rational ideas presented by Republicans. I do not see evidence of serious partisinship being practiced by most Democrats on this issue.
I feel that our federal government under either Republicans or Democrats has done a poor job running Medicare, allowing all manner of fraudulent billing to run rampant.
51 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 31, 2009 at 2:05 am
I think that, regardless of political party, religious affiliation or moral ideology, we should all do the will of Almighty God.
No fear.
God Bless America
52 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 31, 2009 at 2:08 am
I think that, regardless of political party, religious affiliation, moral ideology or whatever, we should all do the will of Almighty God.
No fear.
God Bless America
53 onlineanalyst // Aug 31, 2009 at 2:32 am
I did read not too long ago that legal immigrants in MA have been subject to rationing.
You are correct that there has been abuse via fraudulent billing with both Medicare and Medicaid. That is part of the problem of unwieldy bureaucracy. To expand health insurance to an even greater population is economic suicide.
Your fourth paragraph seems to contradict itself. Thank goodness that the Blue Dogs are attempting to put the brakes on passage of HR3200. It needs to be thrown out completely. The states should be addressing health insurance issues.
If any federal intrusion is called for, it should allow competition across state lines so that individuals or coalitions of small businesses could purchase insurance that meets their needs. Should a young, healthy person desire only catastrophic insurance, then s/he should be permitted to do so instead of insisting that the purchase be limited to a one-size-fits-all insurance that covers a number of unwanted mandates.
54 onlineanalyst // Aug 31, 2009 at 2:41 am
This post is actually the continuation of what I wrote to Whizbang as a reply. My original post was too long to go through.
States can set the limits of redress for malpractice. Apparently Texas has done so, and it is drawing health practioners who no longer wish to carry extortionary liability insurance. When threats of nuisance lawsuits go down, physicians are less apt to require CYA diagnostic tests.
From what I have read also, there are also insurance companies that will accept those with pre-existing conditions. A person should be able to engage the services of such companies.
Health Savings Accounts being available for an individual or as a choice for groups would cut the frivolous demands on the health system. A person would be more selective about the need to see a doctor for minor ailments. The value of professional "doctoring" would be appreciated more when the prospective patient asks, "Is this trip really necessary?"
55 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 31, 2009 at 3:11 am
Seriously?
56 RAM1 // Aug 31, 2009 at 4:38 am
Just a few more "shadows" that Ted cast. The last one about Mary Jo was so heartfelt, Ted had to use a script, since teleprompters had not been invented or at least widely used yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbDwbUZar0o&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q36B9mBHdLA&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0hdhLG0g6A&NR...
57 RAM1 // Aug 31, 2009 at 4:38 am
Just a few more "shadows" that Ted cast. The last one about Mary Jo was so heartfelt, Ted had to use a script, since teleprompters had not been invented or at least widely used yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbDwbUZar0o&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q36B9mBHdLA&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0hdhLG0g6A&NR...
58 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 31, 2009 at 11:47 am
[REDACTED] overheard a rumor the other day:
Dazzle and Razzle are posing as the infamous Obsequious Narcissists. Their goal? Distraction from the Big Picture.
[REDACTED] therefore deducted that they (the infamous Obsequious Narcissists) are, in fact, the REAL "Luddites" you hear so much about.
59 Hawkeye_R // Aug 31, 2009 at 12:11 pm
In honor of Teddy… I'll drink to that!
60 boberinyetagain // Aug 31, 2009 at 12:52 pm
can I get an "Amen" brother?
61 gafisher // Aug 31, 2009 at 1:31 pm
62 gafisher // Aug 31, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Here's the part of the story the MSM will put on Page 17:
Ridge backpedals on pressure to raise terror alert level
63 boberinyetagain // Aug 31, 2009 at 2:34 pm
and next year he'll tell us that he was pressured into saying that he wasn't pressured.
This could go back and forth several more times….
64 ChileSerrano // Aug 31, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Oh, swell.
Now Sen. Orrin Hatch is publicly calling for Ted Kennedy's widow to be appointed to the Senate seat that Ted held.
I know! Let's just rename the Senate! How does "The House of Lords" sound?
65 boberinyetagain // Aug 31, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Worked for Sunny Bono…what the heck? Give her a shot. Think she'll be worse?
66 ChileSerrano // Aug 31, 2009 at 5:34 pm
boberin: "Think she'll be worse?"
Worse than what? Worse than who? Ted Kennedy?!?
Mary Bono would be better than Ted Kennedy!
Cher would be better than Ted Kennedy!
If they dug up Sonny and propped him up in the Senate cloakroom, a la Weekend at Bernie's, he would be better than Ted Kennedy!
The first 100 names in the Philadelphia phone book would be better than the present composition of the U.S. Senate, IMHO!!
The point that I was trying to make is, this country rejected the idea of royalty some time ago, IIRC, and now is no time to backslide on that decision!!!
67 gafisher // Aug 31, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Here's the part of the story the MSM will put on Page 17:
"Ridge backpedals on pressure to raise terror alert level"
68 gafisher // Aug 31, 2009 at 5:57 pm
"The jihadists who interrogated did not ply their trade under the auspices of the Bush Administration …"
Very true — the Bush Administration proved thoroughly inauspicious toward those who declared and proved themselves to be our enemies. That doesn't clarify your prior statement, but I appreciate your acknowledgment of the facts.
69 gafisher // Aug 31, 2009 at 6:02 pm
"What part of common sense are the Dems and Obama missing?"
Pretty much everything since Thomas Paine. <s>
70 gafisher // Aug 31, 2009 at 6:02 pm
"What part of common sense are the Dems and Obama missing?"
Pretty much everything since Thomas Paine. <s>
71 gafisher // Aug 31, 2009 at 6:03 pm
"What part of common sense are the Dems and Obama missing?"
Pretty much everything since Thomas Paine. (-:
72 gafisher // Aug 31, 2009 at 6:09 pm
"How does "The House of Lords" sound?"
Given the amount of pork fat involved, "House of Lard" might work better.
73 gafisher // Aug 31, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Just because it worked once doesn't mean it'll always be good.
74 boberinyetagain // Aug 31, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Remember when folks knew that doctors were just another person doing the best they could to help? When they screwed up the apologized and most forgave them. I'm not old enough for that to be ancient history (close but not quite).
In those same heady days your kid could fall out of a neighbors tree, break his arm and you'd take him to the hospital and pay (or use your insurance) to get it set. you'd likely chastise your kid for being dumb enough to fall out of the tree.
Either scenario is far, far different today…Lawyers and insurance companies…ruined a perfectly good country.
Interesting related note, current studies show that doctors that apologize for mistakes today aresome 40% less likely to be sued than those that don't. Imagine that, civility…what a concept, one that's nearly lost these days
75 boberinyetagain // Aug 31, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Remember when folks knew that doctors were just another person doing the best they could to help? When they screwed up they apologized and most forgave them. I'm not old enough for that to be ancient history (close but not quite).
In those same heady days your kid could fall out of a neighbors tree, break his arm and you'd take him to the hospital and pay (or use your insurance) to get it set. you'd likely chastise your kid for being dumb enough to fall out of the tree.
Either scenario is far, far different today…Lawyers and insurance companies…ruined a perfectly good country.
Interesting related note, current studies show that doctors that apologize for mistakes today aresome 40% less likely to be sued than those that don't. Imagine that, civility…what a concept, one that's nearly lost these days
76 boberinyetagain // Aug 31, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Remember when folks knew that doctors were just another person doing the best they could to help? When they screwed up they apologized and most forgave them. I'm not old enough for that to be ancient history (close but not quite).
In those same heady days your kid could fall out of a neighbors tree, break his arm and you'd take him to the hospital and pay (or use your insurance) to get it set. you'd likely chastise your kid for being dumb enough to fall out of the tree.
Either scenario is far, far different today…Lawyers and insurance companies…ruined a perfectly good country.
Interesting related note, current studies show that doctors that apologize for mistakes today are some 40% less likely to be sued than those that don't. Imagine that, civility…what a concept, one that's nearly lost these days
77 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 31, 2009 at 8:53 pm
If the governor of that state were to appoint anyone, anyone at all, to fill that 47 year-old seat, it would be hilarious, of course, since Ted "Edward M." Kennedy himself worked rabidly to pass the very law preventing such an appointment.
78 ChileSerrano // Aug 31, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Remember the scandalous appointment of Roland Burris in Illinois? How about the embarrassing Caroline Kennedy boomlet in the state of New York after Senator Hillary Clinton was appointed as Secretary of State?
So are we all agreed now that these gubernatorial appointments are a bad idea ?
Mass. lawmakers to hold special hearing on Kennedt seat.
Massachusetts lawmakers said on Monday they would hold a public hearing next month on whether to change a state law to let the governor name a temporary replacement to Senator Edward Kennedy's seat, which would help Democrats keep their critical 60th vote in the chamber.
Guess not …
79 onlineanalyst // Aug 31, 2009 at 10:04 pm
There is a great video embedded in this link that clarifies for economic illiterates why a federal health insurance program is wrong: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/video-the-y...
The fisking of all of the strawmen on behalf of single-payer, tax-supported health insurance is great.!
80 boberinyetagain // Aug 31, 2009 at 6:56 pm
house of lard…has a nice ring to it.
I couldn't believe Sonny got elected and was even more shocked when his wife took over. Ted's wife on the other hand appears to have a lot going for her. They could do worse…heck, they have done worse
81 RAM1 // Aug 31, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Senator Evan Bayh D (IN) has a BUNCH of commercials, (every 5 minutes), running in Indiana to ask us to call him to thank him for working hard to pass ObamaCare. It also says how bi-partisan Bayh is, although it should say "Bayh-partisan" because he is just that, a partisan for his own party!
Bayh comes home each election cycle and says what a moderate/conservative Dem he is, but when he gets back "HOME" to D.C. his "Mr. Hyde" emerges and he votes with the extremists like Obama, and Kennedy and Hillary did! (Hopefully next November when Evan is up for reelection, Indiana can say "Bayh" to this career politician!)
Funny thing, the three times I tried to call to give him MY VERSION of thanks, (and on different days), his voice mail box was filled.
I hope NOT with the same people's "thanks" that have been roughing up the Conservative Town Hall people.
82 RAM1 // Aug 31, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Probably now is a good time for the libs to appoint an unqualified spouse since the "bar" has been lowered, (actually knocked completely off), by the selection of Al Frankenstein as a sitting Senator.
And a totally inept President!
I mean, who would notice?
83 RAM1 // Sep 1, 2009 at 12:42 am
One for the history books says Moran the lib:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1tn9wVxqlU&NR...
84 RAM1 // Sep 1, 2009 at 1:43 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfmBRZ32YtI&fe...
Only case when Obama told the TRUTH!
85 gafisher // Sep 2, 2009 at 1:18 am
I just realized, Bober, that you might not be aware of the big difference between Mary Bono succeeding her husband and Ted's widow taking his seat. When a Senator leaves office it is possible, under the Constitution, for the Governor of the Senator's State to appoint a replacement to fill out that Senator's term — that's what's being discussed regarding Ted's seat. In the House of Representatives the same is not true — a House member's seat is not filled by appointment, but by election; Mary Bono campaigned for and won her Party's nomination, and then faced and beat democratic opposition in a special election, winning the seat fair and square on what the voters perceived as her merits. She won in the regular election seven months later, and in each election since.
In short, your example fails — there's no comparison.
86 RaptureForums // Sep 3, 2009 at 1:21 am
I can guarantee you the rich folks will never do that. Money is the root of all evil.
http://www.raptureforums.com
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